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New York Law Journal

Recent Cases Address Whether 'Embedding' Is Copyright Infringement

In their Intellectual Property Litigation column, Eric Alan Stone and Catherine Nyarady report on several recent cases in New York federal courts that addressed the unsettled question of whether news organizations and other publishers infringe an author's rights by embedding social media posts containing copyrighted photographs.
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Legaltech News

Privacy Lawyers Don't See Big Hurdles for Digital COVID Screenings, Vaccine Verifications

COVID screening apps and software may play a significant role in giving attendees access to certain venues. And if one company's plan is any indication, they'll likely steer clear of privacy lawsuits.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Why In-House Counsel for Investment Firms Are Blamed for Overspending They Can't Control

Legal departments for private equity firms are asked to control outside spending, but they're unable to approve budgets for new legal projects and lack access to live spending data, according to a new survey of in-house leaders for investment management companies in the U.S. and U.K.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

AI Will Help Legal Weather the Regulatory Storm of 2021

In order to keep pace with the increasing volume of documents in the review pile, one thing is clear: Lawyers can't go into 2021 without the assistance of AI.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'There Will Be Movement': What to Expect for National Privacy Legislation

Dan Jaffe, group executive vice president of the Association of National Advertisers in Washington, D.C., discusses the push for national privacy laws, and the obstacles faced by the effort.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Preserving Privacy in 'Walled Gardens'

In response to increasing regulatory constraints, some of the Internet's largest companies have created large aggregations of user data into "Walled Gardens" and data "Clean Rooms" where advertisers can test and target their messaging without violating the privacy of the data subjects. In his Technology Law column, Peter Brown explains how these large pools of data further the goals of the advertising industry without violating the increasingly strict national privacy regimes.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Woman Railroaded in Tech? Trade-Secret Suit Claims Theft of Virtual-Reality Software

Yasmine Clarke's lawsuit alleges she was wrongly cut out of the "deal of her life" after an all-male team of business partners took her virtual reality software idea and pushed her out of the venture. But the defendant intends to fight back.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Facebook Launches New Civil Rights Post, Hires Harris Wiltshire's Roy Austin

"Technology plays a role in nearly every part of our lives, and it's important that it be used to overcome the historic discrimination and hate which so many underrepresented groups have faced, rather than to exacerbate it," Austin said in a statement.
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Legaltech News

The Third Wave of Legal Technology Transformation: Changing What Lawyers Do, With Structured Data

To better understand this new, third wave of legal technology transformation, it is helpful to look back at the first two waves: the How and the Who.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Will the Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities During Capitol Riot Spur Litigation?

Privacy lawyers say they see a path forward for determining a relative scope of the damage and who might be legally at fault for cybersecurity breaches during Wednesday's raid at the Capitol.
5 minute read

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