The Impact of the GDPR
After four years of preparation and debate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was finally approved by the EU Parliament on April 14, 2016, coming in to effect on…
After four years of preparation and debate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was finally approved by the EU Parliament on April 14, 2016, coming in to effect on…
What is the America Invents Act (AIA)? The path to patentability has many obstacles, and inventors’ own actions sometimes stand in the way of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office…
With the overwhelming numbers of criminal mischief, the government seems to seek resourceful leeway that may lead to the findings of valuable evidence in an investigation. Among all feasible scenarios,…
Biometric Technology Industry Biometrics encompasses a wide variety of technologies, which aim to identify a person’s identity based on unique, unchanging physical or behavioral characteristics. Biometric technologies include fingerprint recognition,…
With legislation that would extend the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) to dealers in art and antiques being contemplated by Congress, it is important to highlight to dangers money laundering poses…
Can a video game company be held liable for placing virtual items on private property? The answer is – maybe. On February 14, 2019, the developer of the mobile game…
With the advent and then explosion of consumer internet access in the 1990s, a concomitant threat of massive, anonymous, and difficult-to-trace copyright infringement also arose. Congress faced significant pressure from…
At common law, defamation actions were meant to compensate individuals for any harm to reputation they suffered as a result of any defamatory communications made by speakers to third parties.…
The success and mass cultural appeal of Netflix’s Stranger Things is in part due to the way in which it incorporates familiar story tropes and cinematic techniques to create a…
A new copyright directive approved by the European Union on February 13 might fundamentally change the landscape for online service providers (OSPs). While the bill still awaits confirmation from European…