YouTube

• IP: Examining the risks associated with corporate social media use

  By Marcella Ballard, Deborah Feinblum  |  May 8, 2012

  Companies and their employees must be aware of the laws governing copyrights and trademarks

• Technology: Friending the unions

  By Robert Quackenboss  |  April 20, 2012

  Today’s labor law practitioners increasingly hear a common troubling narrative: that an employer was blindsided by a union filing a petition to organize its workforce.

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  7 of the strangest lawsuits making headlines

  By Alanna Byrne  |  April 18, 2012

  The following lawsuits exemplify the lighter, and sometimes bizarre, side of the legal world.

• Copyright holders, not online service providers, must identify infringement

  By Julie Beck  |  March 1, 2012

  9th Circuit sets the standard for service providers claiming DMCA safe harbor

• Defining "facts and circumstances"

  By Julie Beck  |  March 1, 2012

  What constitutes knowledge in safe harbor cases

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  Patent-licensing company says it owns the interactive web

  By Ashley Post  |  February 10, 2012

  There’s a showdown in Texas that could significantly impact the web as we know it.

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  Chrysler Super Bowl ad mistakenly yanked from YouTube

  By Alanna Byrne  |  February 8, 2012

  Chrysler hoped that its “Halftime in America” commercial, featuring an inspirational voice-over from Clint Eastwood, would help America “unite one post at a time.” But its lofty ambitions were thwarted when the ad disappeared from YouTube shortly after the game, supposedly owing to a copyright claim filed by the National...

• IP: Is SOPA really that bad?

  By Douglas R. Wolf, Christina M. Licursi  |  January 31, 2012

  Two weeks ago we experienced a moment of Internet history. On Jan. 18, dubbed “Blackout Day,” Internet giants such as Google, Reddit and Wikipedia acted in protest in an attempt to show how overreaching the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are by censoring themselves...

• Labor: Social media posts as protected concerted activity under the NLRA

  By Andrew Tanick  |  January 2, 2012

  The explosion of the Internet has provided companies with a new set of employment-related issues to worry about: harassment via Facebook, trade secret theft by blog and anti-employer rants on YouTube have all become regular topics at employment law seminars.

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  Congress takes steps to shut down rogue websites

  By Steven Seidenberg  |  January 1, 2012

  Two bills could give valuable new tools to trademark owners