By Mark Rasch & Alex Welsh In order to pursue a case in court, especially federal court, a potential plaintiff must demonstrate that they have suffered a concrete, personal, demonstrable harm. When it comes to potential class action privacy litigation, this...
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Pay a Cyber-Ransom, Go to Jail
Companies that find their files, data or networks locked by a malicious actor demanding an extortion payment now have a new worry in their incident response: The United States Department of Treasury. On Oct. 1, 2020, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset...
“Baby Yoda” as an Intellectual Property Case Study
By now, you’ve probably heard of “Baby Yoda” – the popular name for the character referred to as “The Child” in the new “Star Wars” streaming series “The Mandalorian,” available on the new streaming service Disney+. The character has already achieved both critical and...
Ars Ex Machina: Copyrights and Artificial Intelligence
By David Posteraro and Alex Welsh We are at or near an inflection point where the computer programs we use to create are no longer tools or instruments of the author, but arguably authors themselves. So, who owns the copyright on computer-generated works? This is not...
Register Your ©opyrights!
By David Posteraro and Alex Welsh You already know the value of your intellectual property. But are you doing everything you should to protect it? Not if you don’t proactively register your copyrights! As part of your overall brand protection strategy, a regime of...