Insights & Tips
The Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard University, in conjunction with “a collection of lawyers and creative folks,” has authored “The Cyberlaw Guide to Protest Art.” Published on Medium.com, the guide aims to help creators of protest art navigate legal issues …
In the digital age, employers must take various precautionary measures to ensure that trade secrets and other confidential information is not misappropriated by their current and former employees. Below is a list of steps employers can take to prevent …
On January 18, an S.D.N.Y. judge sentenced software engineer Xu Jiaqiang to five years in prison. The crime? Stealing source code from IBM, his former employer. The Department of Justice successfully argued that as an employee, Xu had taken advantage o …
With the help of advanced algorithms, machines are now capable of producing intricate, compelling works of art. As a result, new legal issues have begun to surface regarding the rights to these works. How should attorneys approach copyright issues, dra …
On January 3, 2018, the Second Circuit held that the “Wandering Dago” food truck (“WD”) was unconstitutionally excluded from a New York State lunch program because of its use of ethnic slurs. The opinion repeatedly cites to the 2017 case Matal v. Tam, …
On December 17, 2017, the New York County Supreme Court dismissed claims asserted by financial analytics firm First Manhattan Consulting Group that its competitor, Novantas, Inc., poached its employees to steal trade secrets. The specific claims again …
This past December, the Second Circuit held that unpaid students working at Hearst Communications were in fact interns, and not entry-level employees, as Xuedan “Diana” Wang claimed in her lawsuit against the corporation. Her 2011 complaint alleged tha …
In its recent Chaca v. Abraham decision, the New York State Court of Appeals held that an employee may seek punitive damages where the employer’s discriminatory actions were willfully or wantonly negligent, or where there was “a conscious disregard of …
Forms necessary for employee leave under the Paid Family Leave Law are now available online here. Forms are available for employees, employers, and insurance carriers. For employees, forms include those for bonding leave, leave for a family member’s se …
The NLRB’s Boeing Company decision this past December marked a significant change in how the Board reviews facially neutral workplace policies that appear to interfere with rights protected under the labor relations law. In the past—as established by t …
Isaac Kaplan’s article, 5 Lawsuits That Could Reshape the Art World in 2018, discusses upcoming matters with far reaching legal implications for artistic works: Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Graham v. Prince et al., th …
Various media organizations have called upon the New York State Court of Appeals to reject Lindsay Lohan’s case against the publishers of Grand Theft Auto V. The actress alleges that a character in the game, Lacey Jonas, violates her right of publicity …
