Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with music of the last thirty or forty years understands that sampling remains a big part of the creative process for many musicians. The art of taking something old and turning it into something new and innovative has...
From time to time I am approached by someone who comes to my office with a legal document that he or she got from a friend or downloaded from the Internet. Sometimes they are the fruits of a Google search and sometimes they are documents purchased from a vendor....
Legal technology succeeds or fails because of legal ethics. Legal ethics are the rules that all lawyers must follow or face penalties. Because of this, lawyers will hesitate to use technologies where there are doubts about how well those technologies comply with the...
Imagine this: you have built a successful business based on subscriptions (like many startups and business), but now you are sued under the California automatic renewal law. Never heard of it? You’re not alone, and it’s a killer. Among other penalties, you could be...
Many creative businesses seek copyright protection for useful articles. By “useful articles”, we are talking about things like: clothes, furniture, candlesticks, baseball bats, blenders, doors, etc. But people are often dismayed to find out that useful articles are...
It’s not unlikely that an inventor will eventually come across the topic of patent license agreements. Patent license agreements are commonly used to help develop and commercialize patented items and can be a great source of revenue for the patent owner, spurring...
