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Copyright holders flexing online muscles

Brooklyn Law School professor Wendy Seltzer wanted to teach her copyright class a lesson by showing them what a copyright notice looks like. So she posted a 30-second clip from the 2007 Super Bowl containing the National Football League’s copyright ...

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Forbidden no more

The former Chinese Imperial Palace in Beijing – the Forbidden City – was emblematic of the inward looking, closed Chinese culture of yore. And even in more recent times, the Chinese Communist government for the most part kept the country’s ...

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Newsmakers

New associations William Eggers, who recently retired as general counsel at Corning Incorporated, has returned to Nixon Peabody as senior counsel in the litigation practice. Eggers previously practiced at Nixon Peabody before going in-house. While at Corning, he was closely ...

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RICO judgment against workers could chill comp claims

A company determined to stamp out allegedly bogus workers’ compensation claims recently won a $2.3 million default judgment against 86 former employees and their attorneys after suing them for violating federal racketeering laws. After being laid off due to a ...

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Latest state allows in-house counsel to skip the bar exam

The Utah Supreme Court recently adopted a measure permitting in-house attorneys to represent their companies even if they have not taken the state bar exam. Instead, in-house counsel can receive a limited license to practice law. Rules on admitting out-of-state ...

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Bigger firms taking cases on contingency

James Wallace, partner in a 270-lawyer Washington, D.C. firm, never used to get calls from potential plaintiffs. But now he gets them almost every day. That’s because in March 2006, Wallace’s first venture into plaintiffs’ work at Wiley Rein resulted ...

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Is it ‘obvious’?

On April 30, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision regarding the “obviousness” standard for assessing the validity of patents, and in somewhat of a surprise, the ruling’s impact will be far less than many predicted.

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