FTC Workshop: Panel on Emerging Business Models for Online Journalism and Intellectual Property Rights
Nearly five years after the Grokster case transformed the freewheeling world of free online music sharing into the fee-based business model of iTunes, newspapers are arguing for similar legal enforcement of their intellectual property rights online. The enemy is no longer peer-to-peer (P2P) software. Rather, the new alleged enemy is “news aggregators,” such as Google […]
Read More →FTC Workshop on Journalism and the Internet: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hosting a two-day “Workshop on Journalism and the Internet” in Washington, D.C. The workshop serves as a forum for industry leaders, consumer advocates, academics, and lawyers to advise the FTC on possible changes to copyright law, antitrust law, and tax policy. The FTC convened the workshop in response […]
Read More →Legal Implications of Nearshore Outsourcing to Mexico
My article, “The Legal Implications of Nearshore Outsourcing to Mexico,” has been published in the latest issue of The California International Law Journal. The issue contains three articles on Mexico and one article on IP in the EU. My article is intended for practitioners and provides pragmatic advice and recommendations related to contract enforceability, remedies, […]
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