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Dear Lawyers: You Don’t Get All Your Business From Referrals, and I Can Prove It

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Here’s a reality check that might sting: while 70% of attorneys believe referrals are their greatest channel for new business, only 30% of in-house counsel actually refer their primary law firm to peers. This massive...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Ninth Circuit Issues Important, Mixed Decision in Zillow Copyright Infringement Case

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On March 15, 2019, in VHT v. Zillow Group Inc., 2:15-cv-01096, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a significant copyright decision, ruling, among other things, that Zillow's online service did not directly...more

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Recent Developments in Online Privacy Protections for Canadians

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Forget you ever read this - The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) declared last Friday that existing privacy laws allow consumers to ask search engines to remove inaccurate search results and to request...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Confirms that a Cy Pres Only Settlement Can Work In Privacy Class Action

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The internet continues to expand into every aspect of our lives. With it, many companies have collected, tracked, and used an enormous amount of data. All of this has given rise to class action lawsuits challenging the...more

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Far-reaching decision by the CJEU on copyright: The Pirate Bay can be blocked by ISPs!

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Swiftly following the CJEU decision in Filmspeler, in which the Court found that the selling of multimedia players with add-ons to illegal streaming websites amounted to copyright infringement, the CJEU has confirmed that an...more

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In a Rough Year for CDA §230, Manchanda v. Google Provides Comfort to Website Operators

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As we noted in our recent post on the Ninth Circuit case Kimzey v. Yelp! Inc., in the right circumstances, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) still provides robust protection against liability for website...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Shooting the Messenger? Websites could face greater liability for third-party content in the EU

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Three developments in the last two months suggest websites face greater liability for content authored by third parties in the European Union—including reader comments, posts on message boards and social networks, and search...more

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