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Ralph Baxter spent nearly a quarter century as chairman and CEO of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, leading its growth from a regional San Francisco law firm specializing in municipal finance to one of the world’s largest firms with offices worldwide and a diverse array of practices. MORE
It is quite literally the next chapter for the cloud-based bankruptcy platform NextChapter , as legal research company Fastcase today announces that it has acquired the Columbus, Ohio, company. MORE
This year’s ABA TECHSHOW will again feature the Startup Alley — the fourth year of what has become a signature TECHSHOW event. MORE
In a ruling that is being hailed as a victory for web scrapers and the open nature of publicly available website data, the Ninth Circuit today issued its long-awaited opinion in hiQ Labs, Inc. LinkedIn Corp. , 17-16783 (9 th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019). The crucial question before the court was whether once hiQ Labs, Inc. (“HiQ”) HiQ”) received LinkedIn Corp.’s MORE
Google and Youtube is paying $170 million in penalties, $136M to the Federal Trade Commission and $34M to the state of New York, to settle accusations against the companies that YouTube knowingly collected information about children who visited the platform MORE
The Latest episode of my Entertainment Law podcast, Entertainment Law Update, is now available for your enjoyment. Listen here, or subscribe and download in your favorite podcast listening app. Show notes are located at www.entertainmentlawupdate.com/113. Yamashita v. Scholastic Inc., 17-1957 (2d Cir. MORE
The digital ink is barely dry on my post yesterday recapping a record year in legal tech investments , and today there is news of another — in fact a further investment in a company already on my list for an investment earlier this year. MORE
In Victory Processing v. Fox, the 9th Circuit has ruled that a Montana statute prohibiting political robocalls runs afoul of the First Amendment, holding while the government may regulate the time, place, and manner of such calls, it may not MORE
Cloudflare’s drip drip drip: If we’re caught dealing with criminals it could have a material adverse effect on our business. As reported by Mengqi Sun in the Wall Street Journal, 8Chan and Library of Congress hosting provider Cloudflare amends IPO documents on September 10 to disclose to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control violations of U.S. MORE
From the site Journalism History, an essay by Patrick File, University of Nevada, Reno, How Journalists Make the Meaning of the First Amendment MORE
Gregory Voss, Toulouse Business School, is publishing Obstacles to Transatlantic Harmonization of Data Privacy Law in Context in volume 2019 of the Journal of Law, Technology and Policy. Here is the abstract. Globalization seems to call for the harmonization MORE
Yesterday, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round — one of the largest ever for a legal technology company. Shortly after making the announcement during an event in Clio’s Burnaby, B.C., MORE
The new copyright small claims court legislation (The CASE Act) passed the House Judiciary Committee, but not without thuggery from Rep. Zoe Lofgren and the Internet Association. MORE
Sharon K. Sandeen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Hanken School of Economics, and Ulla-Maija Mylly, University of Turku, Faculty of Law, are publishing Trade Secrets and the Right to Information: A Comparative Analysis of EU and US Approaches to Freedom MORE
Jon L. Mills and Kelsey Harclerode, both of the University of Florida College of Law, have published Privacy, Mass Intrusion and the Modern Data Breach at 69 Fla. 771 (2018). Here is the abstract. Massive data breaches have MORE
Everyone remembers where they were on 9/11. FDNY Firefighter Gary Box was in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel with his brothers from Squad 1 in Park Slope. They were stuck in traffic. They got off their truck and started humping it to the WTC. He was never found. MORE
Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Texas A&M University School of Law, has published A Natural Right to Copy. Here is the abstract. In this symposium, we gather to celebrate the work of Wendy Gordon. In this essay, I revisit her article MORE
Robert Kahn, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Mask Bans As Expressions of Memory Politics in the United States. Here is the abstract. Mask laws have a lengthy history in the United States, one primarily, but MORE
Michigan today become the 37th state to adopt the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers. The Michigan Supreme Court issued an order adopting a variation of Model Rule 1.1, Comment 8, of the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct. MORE
Maayan Perel (Filmar), Netanya Academic College and Niya Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, have published Separation of Functions for AI: Restraining Speech Regulation By Online Platforms. Here is the abstract. The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment MORE
Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law, is publishing Inciting, Requesting, Provoking, or Persuading Others to Commit Crimes: The Legacy of Schenck and Abrams in Free Speech Jurisprudence in the SMU Law Review. Here is the abstract. MORE
Students in the first-year legal writing program at Suffolk University Law School this year will get free licenses to WordRake , a legal editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook designed for lawyers and other legal professionals. MORE
If you’ve been following Rep. Ted Deutch’s “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture” bill co-sponsored with Rep. Vern Buchanan, it may come as a surprise that there is actually such a thing as “animal crush” videos. MORE
After three years as editor and publisher of the ABA Journal and 18 years as a member of the editorial staff, Molly McDonough is leaving the magazine after the next issue is put to bed on Oct. MORE
When Toni Morrison died last month, Alli Gerkman posted this Morrison quote on her Facebook page: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” MORE
For the first time last year, annual investment in legal technology companies reached $1 billion. This year, legal tech investments have already surpassed that, totaling at least $1.1 billion to date — a record for annual investment in legal technology, and with three months still to go before year end. I surveyed investments in legal technology this year and found a total of $1,095,215,968 invested to date. MORE
[Deezer is getting out ahead of the growing backlash against streaming service royalties with a blog post on the company’s site entitled “Deezer wants artists to be paid fairly.” MORE
Cloud law practice management company Clio is today announcing a $250 million Series D funding — one of the largest investments ever for a legal technology company and the largest ever for a Canadian company. MORE
From an FCC press release: FCC ESTABLISHES FIRST TWO INNOVATION ZONES New York City & Salt Lake City Projects Empower Advanced Wireless Technology and 5G-Ready Network Experimentation -- WASHINGTON, September 16, 2019—The Federal Communications Commission today announced the creation of MORE
[Following is an interview with a reader who is an independent publisher about how they view the future for songwriters and independent publishers in the streaming upside down world to the right of the decimal place. The publisher requested to remain anonymous.]. Chris Castle/MTP : I want to ask you about challenges in the streaming reality for an independent publisher. MORE
Pelosi is playing a nasty game with the American people. She is not as ignorant as she pretends to be. She is trying to placate the public knowing full well the law she is proposing is unconstitutional. "In MORE
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Edward Snowden, claiming that the publication violates the non-disclosure agreement he signed as an employee of a company that contracted with the NSA and was also an employee with the CIA. Under these MORE
Nine startups — ranging from a case management platform for pro se litigants to an application designed to automate the estate-settlement process — have been selected to participate in the fourth year of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator program. MORE
Remember Wixen Music Publishing sued Pandora over Lyricfind’s purported license for song lyrics. The case is being heard in Los Angeles before District Judge Stephen V. Wilson. (If that name rings a bell, he was the trial judge in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. Grokster.). MORE
Hendrick Townley, Yale University, and Asaf Lubin, Yale University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, are publishing The International Law of Rabble-Rousing in volume 45 of the Yale Journal of International law Online. Here is the abstract. Within the MORE
Gordon P. Firemark
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
The Latest episode of my Entertainment Law podcast, Entertainment Law Update, is now available for your enjoyment. Listen here, or subscribe and download in your favorite podcast listening app. Show notes are located at www.entertainmentlawupdate.com/113. Yamashita v. Scholastic Inc., 17-1957 (2d Cir.
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Edward Snowden, claiming that the publication violates the non-disclosure agreement he signed as an employee of a company that contracted with the NSA and was also an employee with the CIA. Under these
Music Technology Policy
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
If you’ve been following Rep. Ted Deutch’s “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture” bill co-sponsored with Rep. Vern Buchanan, it may come as a surprise that there is actually such a thing as “animal crush” videos.
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Jon L. Mills and Kelsey Harclerode, both of the University of Florida College of Law, have published Privacy, Mass Intrusion and the Modern Data Breach at 69 Fla. 771 (2018). Here is the abstract. Massive data breaches have
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Nine startups — ranging from a case management platform for pro se litigants to an application designed to automate the estate-settlement process — have been selected to participate in the fourth year of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator program.
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
New Media and Technology Law
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
In a ruling that is being hailed as a victory for web scrapers and the open nature of publicly available website data, the Ninth Circuit today issued its long-awaited opinion in hiQ Labs, Inc. LinkedIn Corp. , 17-16783 (9 th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019). The crucial question before the court was whether once hiQ Labs, Inc. (“HiQ”) HiQ”) received LinkedIn Corp.’s
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Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2019
In Victory Processing v. Fox, the 9th Circuit has ruled that a Montana statute prohibiting political robocalls runs afoul of the First Amendment, holding while the government may regulate the time, place, and manner of such calls, it may not
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
It is quite literally the next chapter for the cloud-based bankruptcy platform NextChapter , as legal research company Fastcase today announces that it has acquired the Columbus, Ohio, company.
Communications And Entertainment Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Pelosi is playing a nasty game with the American people. She is not as ignorant as she pretends to be. She is trying to placate the public knowing full well the law she is proposing is unconstitutional. "In
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Gregory Voss, Toulouse Business School, is publishing Obstacles to Transatlantic Harmonization of Data Privacy Law in Context in volume 2019 of the Journal of Law, Technology and Policy. Here is the abstract. Globalization seems to call for the harmonization
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Texas A&M University School of Law, has published A Natural Right to Copy. Here is the abstract. In this symposium, we gather to celebrate the work of Wendy Gordon. In this essay, I revisit her article
Music Technology Policy
AUGUST 31, 2019
Remember Wixen Music Publishing sued Pandora over Lyricfind’s purported license for song lyrics. The case is being heard in Los Angeles before District Judge Stephen V. Wilson. (If that name rings a bell, he was the trial judge in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. Grokster.).
Music Technology Policy
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
The new copyright small claims court legislation (The CASE Act) passed the House Judiciary Committee, but not without thuggery from Rep. Zoe Lofgren and the Internet Association.
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
From an FCC press release: FCC ESTABLISHES FIRST TWO INNOVATION ZONES New York City & Salt Lake City Projects Empower Advanced Wireless Technology and 5G-Ready Network Experimentation -- WASHINGTON, September 16, 2019—The Federal Communications Commission today announced the creation of
Music Technology Policy
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
[Deezer is getting out ahead of the growing backlash against streaming service royalties with a blog post on the company’s site entitled “Deezer wants artists to be paid fairly.”
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
Sharon K. Sandeen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Hanken School of Economics, and Ulla-Maija Mylly, University of Turku, Faculty of Law, are publishing Trade Secrets and the Right to Information: A Comparative Analysis of EU and US Approaches to Freedom
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
The EFF responds to an amusing copyright takedown request. Patiently
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Cloud law practice management company Clio is today announcing a $250 million Series D funding — one of the largest investments ever for a legal technology company and the largest ever for a Canadian company.
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
After three years as editor and publisher of the ABA Journal and 18 years as a member of the editorial staff, Molly McDonough is leaving the magazine after the next issue is put to bed on Oct.
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Yesterday, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round — one of the largest ever for a legal technology company. Shortly after making the announcement during an event in Clio’s Burnaby, B.C.,
Music Technology Policy
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Everyone remembers where they were on 9/11. FDNY Firefighter Gary Box was in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel with his brothers from Squad 1 in Park Slope. They were stuck in traffic. They got off their truck and started humping it to the WTC. He was never found.
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law, is publishing Inciting, Requesting, Provoking, or Persuading Others to Commit Crimes: The Legacy of Schenck and Abrams in Free Speech Jurisprudence in the SMU Law Review. Here is the abstract.
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Robert Kahn, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), has published Mask Bans As Expressions of Memory Politics in the United States. Here is the abstract. Mask laws have a lengthy history in the United States, one primarily, but
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
From the site Journalism History, an essay by Patrick File, University of Nevada, Reno, How Journalists Make the Meaning of the First Amendment
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Hendrick Townley, Yale University, and Asaf Lubin, Yale University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, are publishing The International Law of Rabble-Rousing in volume 45 of the Yale Journal of International law Online. Here is the abstract. Within the
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Maayan Perel (Filmar), Netanya Academic College and Niya Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, have published Separation of Functions for AI: Restraining Speech Regulation By Online Platforms. Here is the abstract. The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment
Media Law Prof Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Google and Youtube is paying $170 million in penalties, $136M to the Federal Trade Commission and $34M to the state of New York, to settle accusations against the companies that YouTube knowingly collected information about children who visited the platform
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Students in the first-year legal writing program at Suffolk University Law School this year will get free licenses to WordRake , a legal editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook designed for lawyers and other legal professionals.
Music Technology Policy
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
Cloudflare’s drip drip drip: If we’re caught dealing with criminals it could have a material adverse effect on our business. As reported by Mengqi Sun in the Wall Street Journal, 8Chan and Library of Congress hosting provider Cloudflare amends IPO documents on September 10 to disclose to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control violations of U.S.
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Ralph Baxter spent nearly a quarter century as chairman and CEO of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, leading its growth from a regional San Francisco law firm specializing in municipal finance to one of the world’s largest firms with offices worldwide and a diverse array of practices.
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Michigan today become the 37th state to adopt the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers. The Michigan Supreme Court issued an order adopting a variation of Model Rule 1.1, Comment 8, of the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
For the first time last year, annual investment in legal technology companies reached $1 billion. This year, legal tech investments have already surpassed that, totaling at least $1.1 billion to date — a record for annual investment in legal technology, and with three months still to go before year end. I surveyed investments in legal technology this year and found a total of $1,095,215,968 invested to date.
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
When Toni Morrison died last month, Alli Gerkman posted this Morrison quote on her Facebook page: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
This year’s ABA TECHSHOW will again feature the Startup Alley — the fourth year of what has become a signature TECHSHOW event.
Media Law
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
The digital ink is barely dry on my post yesterday recapping a record year in legal tech investments , and today there is news of another — in fact a further investment in a company already on my list for an investment earlier this year.
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