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The Federal Circuit's Threat to Software Innovation in the Oracle v. GoogleDecisions<

The Federal Circuit decisions in the Oracle v. Google copyright case rattled Silicon Valley not simply because the decisions upended software developers' understandings of copyright law, but also because the decisions do not comport with the disruptive ethos of the technology industry.

While inflated expectations abound, the advertising industry is emerging as one of the more immediate, substantive and compelling use cases for blockchain technology.

Like poorly-behaved school children, new technologies and intellectual property (IP) are increasingly disrupting the M&A establishment. Cybersecurity has become the latest disruptive newcomer to the M&A party.

Technologies are often pitched as solutions, if not game-changing solutions. Indeed, many times they are, but no solution comes without the seeds of its own costs and challenges. For pragmatic and regulatory compliance reasons, it is increasingly important for boards, senior executives and general counsel to sufficiently understand technologies, not just their potential promise.

The social, economic, and political forces pushing for a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's privacy regime are numerous, and many see 2019 as presenting the best opportunity yet for passage of federal data privacy legislation.

Cybersecurity Practices Must “Be Appropriately Tailored to the Entity. It Should Be Risk-Based, Based on Risk to Your Organization.”

The recently released FINRA report provides guidance for broker-dealer firms of various sizes on how they can mitigate the risks of cyberattacks and data theft by other means.

As a practice, e-discovery involves professionals from a variety of disciplines. For this case law review, we spoke with professionals who play different roles in the e-discovery process to identify three case law rulings from 2018 that stood out in the impact they have on how e-discovery is practiced today.

On March 7, 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court decided for the first time that a parody may be a copyright fair use. In the 25 years that followed, the High Court's unanimous 9-0 ruling in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Inc., has been cited in more than 500 court decisions. But the Supreme Court's pronouncement left questions and controversies in its wake.