NEWS |
News
- MS&K Attorneys (Again) Successful in Defending Boing Boing February 24, 2010
- Rob Rader, Marc Mayer and Jill Rubin successfully defended Boing Boing in a defamation lawsuit brought by MagicJack, which had sought to prevent the popular blog from bringing attention to its terms of services.
- Les Gold Interviewed by Law360 February 17, 2010
- A Q&A with Les Gold, Chair of MS&K's Corporate Practice and Co-Chair of the firm's Homeland Security & Regulatory Practice, appeared in the February 5th issue of Corporate Finance LAW360.
- Frackman Talks With CNNMoney.com About "Napster Effect" February 4, 2010
- Russ Frackman was quoted in "Music's Lost Decade: Sales Cut in Half," concerning the decline in music sales and licensing revenue.
MS&K Alerts and Legal Updates
- Supreme Court Holds Section 411(a) Requiring Pre-Suit Registration is Not Jurisdictional March 5, 2010
- Courts can adjudicate claims pertaining to unregistered works (in class actions and other matters).
- CPSIA Update and a Cautionary Tale of FCPA Enforcement March 1, 2010
- CPSIA Updated re Lead in Electronic Products
- FCPA Guilty Plea
- FCPA - A New Twist?
- Estate Tax "Repeal" February 2010
- Ben Franklin only got it partly right. As it turns out, nothing is as certain as death. Not even taxes.
Publications
- A Telephone Call Can Lead You to a Sale...or to Trouble! Winter 2010
- As security dealers expand markets, the telephone can be an effective marketing tool: it allows you to connect on a personal level with thousands of potential subscribers nationwide. However, unscripted and unsupervised telephone calls may expose your business to liability under telemarketing and telephonic sales laws.
- The First Sale Doctrine in the Digital Age March 2010
- Society's media consumption continues to shift from traditional to digital formats, which means that copyright issues raised by the transfer of intangible property will likely become more prevalent.
- Regulatory Watch List Raises Threat Level January 26, 2010
- It may be easier to talk about the things we know will happen in 2010 than to try to guess what might be coming. After all, no one predicted the product-safety fiasco that became such a major headache.
