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New Net-Use Tracking Tactics Capture Privacy Claims

Jonathan Bick & Elan Raffel

The use of new technology makes peoples' efforts to keep Internet behavior private more difficult, has given rise to renewed claims from consumers of unlawful intrusiveness by Internet data-collectors, and has revived the argument that such behavior unlawfully violates privacy expectations.

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Small Impact on Practice Predicted from White House IP Recommendations

Zack Needles

When the White House's intellectual-property enforcement coordinator, Victoria Espinel, submitted a wish list to Congress in March recommending 20 changes to federal intellectual property law largely aimed at ramping up criminal punishment for IP infringement, IP lawyers said the white paper recommendations would likely have only a tenuous effect, if any, on civil IP litigation or patent prosecution.

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Fourth Quarter e-Commerce: Lookin' Good!

Michael Lear-Olimpi

Fourth-quarter 2010 estimated U.S. retailing rose 3.6% over the third quarter, the Census Bureau reports, as consumer confidence rose through the Christmas season on a wave of slightly rising employment.

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Evolving Online Advertising Techniques

Alan L. Friel

The federal government roared into March like a lion on online advertising, privacy and data'security practices, but hardly left like a lamb.

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Reviving the Not'Quite Dead

Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

Congress passed the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act ("ROSCA") to great public acclaim late last year. But was the new law necessary? Dictionary.com defines restore in several parts, but all refer to bringing back something "lost" or "dead." Looking at recent online business statistics, though, how can anyone reasonably believe that online shopping was "lost" or "dead," much less in need of the "restoration" desired by the new law's authors?

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<i><b>Product Review</i></b> Is There Really Such a Thing As Social Practice Management?

Donna Seyle

Law practice management, meet legal productivity, or, as the San Diego developers have dubbed it: social practice management. Welcome to MyCase.

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NY Long-Arm Statute Permits Copyright Suit, Judges Say

Joel Stashenko

New York's long-arm statute permits a Manhattan-based publisher to sue an out-of-state online corporation for copyright infringement, the state Court of Appeals ruled on March 24.

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NY Long-Arm Statute Permits Copyright Suit, Judges Say

Joel Stashenko

New York's long-arm statute permits a Manhattan-based publisher to sue an out-of-state online corporation for copyright infringement, the state Court of Appeals ruled on March 24.

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Tactics for Seizing Rogue Web Sites

Peter A. Crusco

In cyberspace, the activities of ostensible rogue Web sites ' many attacking U.S. commercial interests or preying on our citizens in a variety of endeavors ' include copyright infringement, illegal gambling and pornography, to name a few. Web site domain seizures may be the 21st-century digital equivalent of 20th-Century gang busting police raids on the haunts of criminal organizations. In place of the remnants of destroyed contraband, a subsequent visitor to these targeted Web sites may instead confront a message left by court order, declaring that the site has been "taken down" for certain illegal activities.

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<b><i>Persona Rights on Trial</b></i> Inside the Nevada Litigation by Bob Marley's Heirs Against the Unauthorized Use of Marley's Image Image

<b><i>Persona Rights on Trial</b></i> Inside the Nevada Litigation by Bob Marley's Heirs Against the Unauthorized Use of Marley's Image

Barry E. Mallen & Paul Bost

Celebrities have often used claims of unfair competition by false association or false endorsement under '43(a) of the federal Lanham Act as a basis for recourse against the unauthorized use of aspects of their identities and personas. The potency of a celebrity association claim was recently reinforced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

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