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Is Everything Going to Be OK? Whether Individual Emoji Are Copyrightable
By Jason Harrow The editors of Oxford Dictionaries recently named the word of the year in 2015. [1] No, that is not a strange typo: The word of the year really was an emoji.
Read More »The Dancing Baby Grooves to Mixed Victory in the 9th Circuit: Court Holds that DMCA Takedown Notices Require Consideration of Fair Use
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Read More »California’s Correction Statute Amended to Protect Online and Weekly Publications
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Read More »Another Page in the Google Books Saga: Appeals Court Blesses Mass Digitization Project as Fair Use
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Read More »FTC OKs Facial Recognition Consent Under COPPA Rule
By Ronald G. London and Bryan Thompson This past Nov. 18, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a new verifiable parental-consent method under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, which will allow
Read More »California Beefs Up Encryption & Notice in Data Breach Law
By Christopher Avery and Bryan Thompson On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed A.B. 964 and S.B. 570 into law, a pair of bills that amended the Golden State’s data breach notification
Read More »The 2015 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Changing the Way Civil Litigants Operate in Federal Court
By Karen A. Henry and Diana Palacios The recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are the most significant overhaul of the rules governing civil litigation in federal court that we’ve seen
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