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Actress Has No Copyright in Controversial <i>Muslims</i> Film Image

Actress Has No Copyright in Controversial <i>Muslims</i> Film

Marisa Kendall

The work of an individual performer in a film isn't protected by copyright law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided when it ruled in an 11-judge <i>en banc</i> decision that actress Cindy Lee Garcia couldn't use copyright law to force Google to remove a five-second clip of the film <i>Innocence of Muslims</i> from YouTube and other Internet platforms.

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Examining Rulings On Pandora and Performance Rights Image

Examining Rulings On Pandora and Performance Rights

Scott Flaherty & Mark Hamblett

Little more than a week after music-streaming service Pandora Inc. won a key ruling in its royalty rate dispute with ASCAP, Pandora was dealt a setback in a parallel fight with ASCAP's rival performing rights organization, BMI.

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Anchoring the Firm Culture In Solid Rock Image

Anchoring the Firm Culture In Solid Rock

William C. Cobb

Over the years of my consulting practice, I have seen many formerly great law firms fail and go under. The reason? They lost the anchor to their core values, and then started drifting into issues and concerns that eventually destroyed them from within. Herein, I try to lay out what can be done to keep the anchor holding.

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Take Care in Using Consumer Data to Drive Dynamic Pricing of e-Commerce Image

Take Care in Using Consumer Data to Drive Dynamic Pricing of e-Commerce

Alan Friel & Hannah Bloink

Dynamic pricing is the practice of offering different prices to consumers based on various factors designed to maximize sales and profits, which may include the retailer's perception of the willingness of a particular consumer to pay at a given price point. This can be the basis for personalized pricing, the "holy grail" of which is to develop a methodology for "perfect price discrimination" that maximizes the amount each individual consumer is willing to pay.

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What ERP Can Teach About ELM Adoption Image

What ERP Can Teach About ELM Adoption

Jim Tallman

Following in the footsteps of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) holds out the potential to link risk and legal data to enable the global enterprise to proactively mitigate legal risk, streamline the legal process, and make insightful decisions in response to market or regulatory changes.

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International Design Patent Filing Considerations After U.S. Entry into the Hague Agreement Image

International Design Patent Filing Considerations After U.S. Entry into the Hague Agreement

Trevor K. Copeland & Daniel A. Parrish

Effective May 13, 2015, applicants can file international design patent applications in a single, standardized application via the USPTO designating any of more than 62 territories, including the U.S. and European Union (EU), and can receive the same effective filing date in each jurisdiction. This important opportunity comes as the U.S. accedes to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement.

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Digging into Data To Build a Vendor Management Program Image

Digging into Data To Build a Vendor Management Program

Tim Strong

For law departments, today's business environment is making it increasingly difficult to manage, control or reduce costs while being able to achieve satisfactory results. This is forcing companies to become more efficient in managing and controlling legal costs handled both internally by the organization and externally by outside counsel.

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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> FTC Sued Over Refusal to Disclose Data Security Policies Image

<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> FTC Sued Over Refusal to Disclose Data Security Policies

Jenna Greene

' The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was sued last month for refusing to turn over information about how the agency decides to bring data security cases. The Freedom of Information Act suit by Philip Reitinger, a former Department of Homeland Security official who is now president of a cybersecurity company, comes as the FTC'defends its role as data security cop'in two ongoing cases. &#133;

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The Changing Face of Legal Research Image

The Changing Face of Legal Research

Daniel J. O'Rielly

Executing a powerful business development plan is a challenge every attorney faces. For attorneys at small firms and with solo practices, doing it without breaking the bank is one of the biggest hurdles to a thriving practice.

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SEC's Final Regulations for Implementing JOBS Act Crowd-Funding Capital Raising Image

SEC's Final Regulations for Implementing JOBS Act Crowd-Funding Capital Raising

Thomas D. Selz

The SEC issued draft regulations for implementing Title IV of the JOBS Act on March 25, 2015. The new regulations offer a way for an issuer to run an Internet-based, crowd-funding securities offering to both accredited and non-accredited investors.

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