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25 Years After: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and the State of Copyright Fair-Use Controversies Image

25 Years After: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and the State of Copyright Fair-Use Controversies

Stan Soocher

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.

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UMG v. Grande Communications: Another Victory for the Music Industry in Its Battle to Hold ISPs Liable for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Image

UMG v. Grande Communications: Another Victory for the Music Industry in Its Battle to Hold ISPs Liable for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

J. Alexander Lawrence

Since the advent of the Internet, the music industry has been in a pitched battle to combat online piracy. Initially, the industry focused on shutting down services that offered peer-to-peer or other similar platforms, such as Napster, Aimster and Grokster. For a time, the industry also focused on filing claims against individual infringers to dissuade others from engaging similar conduct. In recent years, the industry seems to have shifted focus toward Internet Service Providers.

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Sticking a Hand in the Internet Cookie Jar Image

Sticking a Hand in the Internet Cookie Jar

Jeffrey Higel, Michael Bahar & Mike Nelson

As convenient, useful and cool mobile technology and interconnected devices are, they come with risks that remain largely unseen or, worse, ignored. Some…

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Cloudy With a Chance of IoT attacks: The Cybersecurity Forecast for 2019 Image

Cloudy With a Chance of IoT attacks: The Cybersecurity Forecast for 2019

Leigh-Anne Galloway

2018 was a trying year for the cybersecurity industry, with breaches increasing and showing no signs of slowing as we enter the New Year. 2019 will bring its own threats with the propagation of new technology — 5G and IoT — and their security vulnerabilities. However, there's also progress on the horizon, thanks to more stringent government regulation and increasing legal action.

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Making Sense of YouTube's Monetization Policies Image

Making Sense of YouTube's Monetization Policies

Gwendolyn Seale

This article delves into YouTube's policies for channel monetization, explores the different streams of revenue an artist or creator may be entitled to receive for their works, and offer suggestions to indie creators and more established creators, so they can meet these new thresholds.

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Risks in Online Collection of Children's Data Image

Risks in Online Collection of Children's Data

Jeffrey Higel, Michael Bahar & Mike Nelson

As convenient, useful and cool mobile technology and interconnected devices are, they come with risks that remain largely unseen or, worse, ignored. Some pose security risks and privacy risk, like those present in voice-activated devices — especially for children. For manufacturers, they also pose regulatory litigation and insurance risks, especially when children end up using their “smart” products.

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Bit Parts Image

Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Complaints to Amazon by TV Show Host and His Attorney Didn't Constitute DMCA Notices<br>No Actual Malice by Defendants in Libel Suit over Composite Character in Film

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Sticking a Hand in the Internet Cookie Jar Image

Sticking a Hand in the Internet Cookie Jar

Jeffrey Higel, Michael Bahar & Mike Nelson

Why Collecting Children's Online Data is a Risk As convenient, useful and cool mobile technology and interconnected devices are, they come with risks that remain largely unseen or, worse, ignored. For manufacturers, they also pose regulatory litigation, and insurance risks, especially when children end up using their "smart" products.

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Right Out of the Box: California Enacts First-of-its-Kind Statute Regulating Internet-of-Things Image

Right Out of the Box: California Enacts First-of-its-Kind Statute Regulating Internet-of-Things

Michael Bahar, Frank Nolan & Trevor Satnick

<b><i>Companies Impacted By California's SB-327 — Especially Manufacturers and Distributors of IoT Devices — Should Work to Ensure Compliance With the Act As Soon As Possible If Regulatory Fallout Is to Be Avoided Come January 2020</b></i><p>While a great deal of attention has focused on the California Consumer Privacy Act, California also passed a less-publicized, but highly critical, statute that will regulate certain aspects of Internet of Things device security.

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How Will the Music Modernization Act's Mechanical Licensing Collective Work? Image

How Will the Music Modernization Act's Mechanical Licensing Collective Work?

Chris Castle

This article focuses on managing change for clients affected by the MMA's government-mandated mechanical licensing collective. In my view, far from putting songwriters on a trajectory away from the government regulation that has oppressed them for generations, the collective imposes an entirely new bureaucracy with potentially significant costs that are not readily apparent.

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