Web Scraping: Pitfalls and Proactive Best Practices
If your business relies on insights from reviews, comments or other aggregated data, chances are that you are tempted to engage in a little (or a lot of) web scraping. Web scra Read more....
Make it a Policy to Protect Your Business From Privacy Threats
2016 will be remembered as the year that privacy became the buzzword small businesses took notice of. We saw the establishment of the first ever Federal Privacy Council this ye Read more....
Can you Keep a (Trade) Secret? The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016
Before May 11, 2016, only three out of four forms of intellectual property – patents, trademarks and copyrights – were protectable and enforceable at the federal level. The Read more....
5 Ways to Protect Your Cannabis Brand
As a cannabis business owner you have probably invested quite a bit in your brand and creating a market for your product. The last thing you want is for someone else to tell yo Read more....
Copyright & Copywrong: What are Derivative and Transformative Works?
Recently, we’ve been asked several times about the nature of a certain work as it relates to copyright infringement. “Is my work a derivative of theirs? I should be Read more....
The Falsity of the Frivolity of Fashion Law
“Fashion Law”. It sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? After all, fashion, which typically evokes images of supermodels and Anna Wintour, is more “The Devil Wears Prada Read more....
My Startup Weekend Rollercoaster Ride
Attending a Startup Weekend is like riding a rollercoaster for the first time: after you’ve attended once, you decide whether you’re a rollercoaster-person or not. If you a Read more....
#BestContestEver #TopTenBestPractices
Are you thinking about running a social media contest to engage your users and help your business stand out? We’re sharing our top ten things to think about to run a succ Read more....
Work For Hire vs. Assignment of Work Product
FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY This table does not constitute legal advice – if you have questions, please contact [email protected] Work-For-Hire Assignment of Work Product Read more....
Blurred Lines: “Dumb Starbucks” Reopens the Fair Use vs. Trademark Infringement Debate
Dumb Starbucks, the Los Feliz, CA, pseudo-coffee shop with the look and feel of the ubiquitous Seattle-based Starbucks Corporation has reopened discussion as to what constitute Read more....