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Your customers and fans can be your biggest assets when it comes to championing your brand or products, or they can be your harshest critics, infringe on your IP rights and damage your brand. How do you take advantage of positive content they create and share without putting your company at risk? How do you protect yourself from the negative content? This panel will address the liability concerns around the use of user-generated content, including IP protection and infringement, Federal Trade Commission guidelines, rights of publicity and defamation. It will provide insights into safe harbors of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Communications Decency Act, and ways to obtain consent. It will also address factors to consider based on the terms and conditions of the most popular social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).

This article defines the term copyright, who can claim copyright, what works are protected, how to secure a copyright, etc.

This Charity Law Bulletin reviews the exemption under CASL for registered charities in the recently published final regulations, together with a summary of information contained in earlier Charity Law Bulletins, as well as a brief review of practical steps charities and non-profit organizations can take to prepare for CASL.

This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).

This course will explain our policy regarding the privacy and security of electronic healthcare information in compliance with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

On average around the world, starting a business takes 7 procedures, 25 days and costs 32% of income per capita in fees. To operate and expand, the firm will need financing—from shareholders or from creditors. Raising money in the capital market is easier and less costly where minority shareholders feel protected from self-interested transactions by large shareholders. Good corporate governance rules can provide this kind of protection. But among the 189 economies covered by this article, 46 still have only very limited requirements for disclosing majority shareholders’ conflicts of interest—or none at all. In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in removing some of the biggest bureaucratic obstacles to private sector activity. Yet small and medium-size enterprises still are subject to burdensome regulations and vague rules that are unevenly applied and that impose inefficiencies on the enterprise sector. Learn more about the specific regulatory obstacles small and medium-size enterprises must navigate.

This report is a summary of the Committee findings to date and an overview of the key issues identified which have implications for the health care system as a whole.

A run/walk/bike ride/bull-riding contest sounds like a great fundraising idea. But what should in-house counsel be thinking about when they are planning for an active event or negotiating contracts with vendors? Learn from the voices of experience.

This article discusses the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) final rule amending Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy regulations to provide significant additional protections for protected health information relating to reproductive health care.

The Eversheds Sutherland European Dictionary of Selected Legal Terms has been specifically designed with US and UK corporate counsel in mind. It brings together in a handy pocket format a guide to more than 1000 legal and commercial expressions commonly encountered or used by US and UK corporate counsel in business and in litigation situations in Europe. By covering these terms in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, it extends to the European markets which directly serve more than 300 million people.

Discusses the general ways costs associated with ediscovery can be minimized including a records retention policy, a data map and establishing partnerships.

This article details how to deal with the "free-rider" problem in which discounters take advantage of the capital investments of other dealers. Through those investments, they've helped establish brand recognition and a reputation for quality products. The discounters are unfairly trading on the brand without having made any investment in it. The sales department doesn't care what it's called. They just want to know one thing: "How can we stop it?"

PowerPoint presentation related to process and project management.

Presentations delivered by law departments do not always evoke the most welcoming of reactions. However, with such low expectations, giving a memorable performance should not be too difficult, if you follow the advice offered in this feature article.

As the world prepares to enter a period of increasing isolationism, one effect is indisputable: It will slow down global commerce. From conducting a large-scale international acquisition to simply sending an email, in-house counsel can expect to encounter a wide array of new legal considerations that will directly impact cross-border business operations.

Let’s face it, “running your department like a business” is no longer a goal but an expectation of the C-suite. Whether you are fully on board or still struggling to catch up, there are a few basic principles that will help you think and manage like a business owner. This intermediate-level program will give participants proven strategies to enhance the bottom line of the legal departments they manage. Your budget conversations with the CFO will never be the same!

This is a sample company social media policy.

This is a sample social media usage policy.

This resource covers important information to consider before investing in Indonesia.

This toolkit provides a guide to some of the basics of financial accounting terms and concepts that are key to in-house lawyers for understanding the company's financial statements as well as a guide to establishing a law department from scratch.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Intellectual Property, IT, Privacy & eCommerce, and Small Law Departments eGroups, addresses issues involving software license agreements and digital contracts in general. The issues discussed include acceptance of software license agreements, requirement of acceptance and click-wrap agreements.

This is a sample two-party escrow service agreement where the company provides flexible, comprehensive escrow services that generate the type of agreement that gives customers the right level of protection in each unique situation.

This ACC Guide (InfoPAK) is a primer for in-house counsel starting, building, executing, and refining an Information Governance program.

This survey explores the areas of personal career history, personal demographics, profile of the corporate legal department and the use of legal research and other products and services.

Notice of the Texas Attorney General's intent to file administrative expense claim for post-petition civil fines and penalties