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Canadian Appellate Court Orders Google To Block Website Worldwide

Lisa Shuchman

A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal for British Columbia affirmed a lower court decision ordering Google Inc. to block certain websites from its search engine ' not just in British Columbia but worldwide.

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<i>En Banc</i> Ninth Circuit Overturns Injunction In Anti-Islamic Video Case Image

<i>En Banc</i> Ninth Circuit Overturns Injunction In Anti-Islamic Video Case

J. Alexander Lawrence

More than a year after a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a controversial and roundly criticized decision in <i>Garcia v. Google</i> that an actress appearing in a five-second segment of a film could use copyright law to force YouTube to remove the film from its website, the Ninth Circuit sitting <i>en banc</i> has rejected the panel's decision.

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Measuring the ROI of Strong Information Governance Processes

Nancy Beauchemin

Information governance requires a firm-wide approach for managing and protecting client information. By taking a proactive approach and laying out the business case through the measurement of the return on investment of information governance, law firms realize significant savings, improve client service and minimize risk.

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Imposing Liability Under DMCA Counter-Notification Provision

Richard Raysman & Peter Brown

Although seemingly dry, the few cases heretofore that have confronted questions surrounding misrepresenting takedown notices have contained facts that are arguably ripped from the tabloids, including a bitter dispute between bloggers over the proper method of childbirth, and a kerfuffle arising from the wider publication of the views of a pro-straight pride organization in the U.K.

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Using Unlicensed Photos On Websites

Joshua Kaufman

For a long time, people have generally felt it appropriate to go onto various image search engines, find a photo and then cut and paste it into their publication or website. One of the reasons this was so easy to get away with was that there was no effective way for photographers to find unlicensed uses of their work. Of late, however, photographers either have acquired new technology or have engaged search companies that have image-searching technology.

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Ipro Suite Helps Houston Firm Increase Efficiency

B.B. Neely

Despite our firm's technological savvy, the burden of growing discovery volumes was challenging to manage. We were experiencing performance and workflow issues on all cases with over 150,000 documents, forcing us to send the larger cases to outside vendors, adding time and cost to every case. Our goal was to find a new in-house solution that could process and search vast amounts of data quickly and provide our attorneys with powerful analytic tools to use in early case assessment (ECA) and strategy development.

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A Six-Step Data Privacy Program Health Check

Kristoph Gustovich

Data protection is the responsibility of every individual in the company, and the legal and IT departments should only be drafting contractual languages, policies, and guidelines while working in tandem with each other.

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Effective Ways to Implement a 'Less Paper' Office

John Gilbert

Going paperless" is something that many law firms claim they desire. There is exceptional value to be gained from a totally paperless environment and storing documents electronically, both in terms of cost savings and efficiency. Risk is reduced as well. However, going completely paperless is a frustrating task that is akin to slamming your head in a door over and over again: It only feels better when you stop.

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Three Lessons for a Proactive Approach To Cybersecurity

Jason Straight

Do you know where your client's or organization's data is? It's not a rhetorical question ' it's a serious issue that should be at the core of any cybersecurity assessment.

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Wave of Privacy Suits Peters Out

Ross Todd

Michael Rhodes, the charismatic chair of Cooley's privacy and data protection practice, took the stage at an awards dinner in late April with an extra bounce in his step ' and a blunt prediction for his colleagues in the plaintiffs privacy bar.

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