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Law Firms and Social Networking
Along with the viral popularity of social networking Web sites (one of these sites is the fourth most-trafficked Web site in the world), legal blogs, collaboration sites, and informal online education options comes the vulnerability of some risk.
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Franchise Companies vs. Hackers: Twenty Questions on Cybercrime
The 21st century is clearly the age of cybercrime, and franchise companies should be especially concerned because, simplistically, there are only two types of computer systems: those that have been hacked, and those that will be hacked.
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Technology Puts a Dream House on Hold
A look at <i>A.E., Inc. v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Inc.</i>, No. 05-CV-01317 (D. Colo. 2007), in which visual technology paid a major part in the trail.
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The Golden Rule of Biological Inventions And the Written Description Requirement
In an ideal world, a business would have a patent practitioner everywhere at once: in the lab, in the office, and in the boardroom. The purpose of this article is to interpret a sphere of patent law related to the description of biological inventions in terms that are practical for researchers and business managers in the biotech industry who live in a non-ideal world.
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Curbing Internet Defamation
An identifiable Internet speaker who sends an unlawful e-mail or posts an unlawful Internet message is subject to traditional litigation tactics. However, countless Internet speakers are not effortlessly identifiable. Hence, novel technical, administrative law and litigation tactics are advantageous for successfully curbing Internet defamation.
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What's in a Domain Name? The Changing Internet
Generic, top-level domain names (gTLDs), such as .com or .net, are the sorters of the Internet. They serve the single purpose of identifying the database in which a domain name is registered. Last June, ICANN reversed its long-held position and announced that it would allow an unlimited number of generic top-level domains.
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Online Anti-Porn Law Dies at Supreme Court
A federal law intended to restrict children's access to Internet pornography died quietly last month at the U.S. Supreme Court, more than 10 years after Congress overwhelmingly approved it. The Supreme Court rejected U.S. government prosecutors' last-ditch defense of COPA without comment, meaning that the law will not be enforced.
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RIAA Tempers Tactics
In December, the RIAA announced that it would no longer look to file suit against individual file sharers and instead form relationships with ISPs that maintain the online accounts of the consumers.
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Listen Up: What the Discoverability of Audio Recordings Should Mean to IT Professionals
The necessity for IT professionals to haul audio recordings into their general e-discovery process is gaining awareness because of situations that may ' at first glance ' appear harmless.
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Empower Your Browser: New Possibilities
The Web browser has evolved into a platform for our digital lives, offering more interactivity while moving further beyond its passive browsing roots (i.e., checking e-mail, paying bills and balancing checkbooks, watching videos, social networking, playing games, networking and even managing a law practice). That is precisely the core of Google's new Web browser called Chrome.
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