“Copyrights (and Wrongs) for Religious Organizations: Works Made for Hire: Who Owns the Sermon?” is the third article of a three part series of articles on copyright law and religious organizations. For the laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke 10:7 KJV Under the...
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The Fair Use Doctrine and the Religious Services Exception
"Copyrights (and Wrongs) for Religious Organizations: The Fair Use Doctrine and the Religious Services Exception" is the second of a three part series of articles on copyright law and religious organizations. In truth, in literature, in science and in art, there are,...
Regulation A+: SEC Increases Access to Capital for Smaller Companies
Authored by: Sarah D'Amore On March 25, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules referred to as Regulation A+ that make raising capital more accessible to smaller nonpublic companies.[1] The new rules will not only provide growing...
Copyright (and Wrongs) for Religious Organizations
"Copyright (and Wrongs) for Religious Organizations: Introduction to Copyright Law" is the first of a three part series of articles on copyright law and religious organizations. . . . every author should have the property of his own work reserved to him after death,...
Final Regulations for REPAYE Released
Authored by: Justine Lara Konicki On October 27, 2015, the Department of Education released its regulations for the new Revised Pay As You Earn student loan repayment plan (“REPAYE”). More information and the regulations can be found on the U.S. Department of...
Fair Use: Get the GIFst
Authored by: Jennifer M. Hart On Monday, October 12, 2015, Twitter suspended @Deadspin and @SBNationGIF. Was it because Deadspin is among the sports blogosphere’s more irreverent? No, it appears that the National Football League (the “NFL”), the Ultimate Fighting...
UPDATE: Congress aims to Reverse Browning-Ferris
By Robert Bowes with Alex E. Jones Capitol Hill has been busy attempting to reverse the new “joint employer” standard established in the recent National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) decision Browning-Ferris Industries of California (“Browning-Ferris”). An overview...
Ohio Supreme Court Upholds NEORSD’s Stormwater Management Program
On September 15, 2015, the Ohio Supreme Court issued its long awaited decision in Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer Dist. v. Bath Twp., Slip Opinion No. 2015-Ohio-3705, and found in favor of the sewer district. The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (“NEORSD”) is a...
The NLRB’s New Joint Employer Standard
By Alex E. Jones In Browning-Ferris Industries of California (“Browning-Ferris”), the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) created a new standard for determining whether two companies are “joint employers” for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). ...
Creating Signed, Written Contracts Over the Telephone: An Update
In our July 2012 article in Connections Magazine,[1] we wrote about two relatively new sets of laws that companies could use to create what we believe would be legally binding signed and written contracts over the telephone: (i) the Electronic Signatures in Global and...