Influencer marketing has become a 6.5 billion dollar business. Sixty-two percent less expensive than traditional marketing and driving nearly three times as many leads, businesses and consumers alike are acknowledging…
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Protecting Freelancer Rights: What About Social Media?
Setting the Stage Freelance authors are on the rise. According to a 2017 survey, 50.9% of the US population will be freelancing in ten years if the current trend continues.[1]…
Big Data, Privacy and the GDPR
When I attended the Institute for the Future of Law Practice boot camp in May 2018 in Chicago, Professor Matthew Kugler from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law gave a lecture on cybersecurity, explaining…
Resolving Online Defamation in the Internet Age
Given the enormous growth in online defamation claims on social media, almost all requesting a removal of defamatory comments, these claims are not ideal for court-based resolution and should be…
Fair Balance, Proportionality and Revamping the Publication Rule — Will these Efforts Resolve the Problem of Online Intermediaries? It’s Unlikely.
The Law Commission of Ontario recently held a conference as part of a consultation process for its “Defamation Law in the Internet Age” project. The event provided scope for continuing…
Getting’ GIFfy with it? The Olympic Ban on GIFs, a Copyright Issue
The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) new rules ban viewers of the 2016 Rio Olympics from creating and sharing Graphic Interchange Format graphics (GIFs). The short videos, typically used as sources…