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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Sony Settles Suit Over Hacked Data Image

<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Sony Settles Suit Over Hacked Data

Cheryl Miller

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. will pay up to $8 million, including $3.5 million in attorney fees, to settle claims tied to the infamous 2014 hacking scandal, according to proposed terms filed last month in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> California Leads the Way in Digital Privacy Image

<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> California Leads the Way in Digital Privacy

Shahid Buttar

Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a crucial law with groundbreaking implications for privacy, the Internet and free speech. Sacramento's adoption of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, also known as CalECPA, makes California the largest state to adopt digital privacy protections including both the content of messages and location data.

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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Bitcoin Alliance Aims to Boost Reputation of Digital Currency Image

<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Bitcoin Alliance Aims to Boost Reputation of Digital Currency

Erin Harrison

Known around the world as as 'crypto-currency,' Bitcoin officially has a justice group behind it that hopes to turn around the digital currency's conflicted reputation in the market ' and ultimately ward off criminals from making off with digital ransom.

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NV Fantasy Sports Ruling Comes Amidst NJ's Betting Bid Image

NV Fantasy Sports Ruling Comes Amidst NJ's Betting Bid

Michael Booth

Nevada's recent crackdown on fantasy sports operations could have a beneficial effect on New Jersey's latest bid to legalize sports betting, according to lawyers involved in the gaming industry.

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Crazy for Fair Use Image

Crazy for Fair Use

Kyle-Beth Hilfer

The Ninth Circuit has held that fair use is an exception to copyright law and not a defense, in the first federal appeals court ruling on this issue. The decision is the latest in the ongoing battle between plaintiff Stephanie Lenz and defendant Universal Music Corp. and affiliated companies (Universal). Starting in a rural kitchen in Pennsylvania, the case is now a landmark decision in copyright law that protects many home videographers.

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Fifth Amendment Does Not Extend To 'Digital Person' Image

Fifth Amendment Does Not Extend To 'Digital Person'

Shari Claire Lewis

An acrimonious marital breakup has been known to bring out the worst in some people. Those battles increasingly are fought on the technology field, thereby leaving courts to determine complex personal rights issues in the context of grown-ups 'behaving badly.

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SEC Potentially Targets CCOs for Cybersecurity Lapses Image

SEC Potentially Targets CCOs for Cybersecurity Lapses

Judy Selby & Jonathan A. Forman

Two recent speeches by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials likely got the attention of every Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). CCOs would be well advised to carefully review and implement where appropriate the SEC's latest cybersecurity guidance.

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Dispositive Questions Every Law Firm Should Ask of the Cloud Image

Dispositive Questions Every Law Firm Should Ask of the Cloud

Mike L. Chase

Cloud service providers (CSPs) offer myriad choices to law firms of all sizes who, in return, have become one of the fastest adopters of hosted cloud infrastructure worldwide. Nonetheless, asking the right questions is essential to learning cloud limitations, similarities, differentiators, caveats and benefits. From niche providers to the top five, not everything is as it seems when it comes to what is offered, how it's offered, and the up-front and hidden costs of each.

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Four Keys to Litigation Technology Innovation in the Next Five Years Image

Four Keys to Litigation Technology Innovation in the Next Five Years

Steven Ashbacher

Electronic discovery is a complex business that requires continuous professional learning from litigation team members and ongoing innovation from technology solution providers. To help stimulate discussion and drive innovation, The Legal Innovation 2020 Working Group was formed at the beginning of 2015 in order to help legal-industry leaders identify the keys to success over the next five years.

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Second Circuit 'Affirms Fair Use Image

Second Circuit 'Affirms Fair Use

Robert J. Bernstein & Robert W. Clarida

On Oct. 16, in <i>Authors Guild v. Google,</i> the Second Circuit affirmed a U.S. District judge's holding that Google's mass digitization of more than 20 million books from major university libraries in order to enable users of the Google Books website constitutes fair use.

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