Science, Computers and Technology Law

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Current Legal Issues Facing Businesses on the Internet: Legal Risks and How They Can Be Avoided

In 1997 Thelen Reid & Priest formed the Internet Practice Group, an interdisciplinary association of attorneys from different departments of the firm devoted to legal issues arising in the growing on-line business environment. Since then Internet ...
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Cyber Talk Needs Cyber Laws

The worldwide web, that vast library with millions of readily available and indexed publications, as well as a sprawling mall of goods and services is not only changing the way we do business, it is also facing changes in our laws. As technology ...
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Cyberians at the Gate?

© This article is reprinted with permission from IP Magazine, June 1999 Y2K isn't the only area of computer technology that causes otherwise clear-thinking and well-adjusted people to take leave of their senses and begin loudly proclaiming ...
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Cybermarks and Competitive Practices Over the Internet

Rapid internet development has not only complicated traditional rules of commerce and fair competitive practices, but it has also outpaced the abilities of most legislators and legal practioners to deal with "cyberspace" issues. Many of our ...
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Cyberspace Harassment

Employers face new challenges attempting to prevent harassment and discrimination in the work place. Access to the Internet has become commonplace permitting employees access to explicit and harassing cyberspace material. Employee usage of the ...
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Dealing with False Internet Rumors: A Corporate Primer

©1998 wallstreetlawyer.com. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of , 150 Clove Road, Little Falls, NJ 07424. (800) 308-1700. he corporate "cybersmear" -- in which a false and disparaging rumor about a company, its management or its stock ...
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Death of the EBR Exemption May Be “Greatly Exaggerated”

In responding to news reports that he had died, Mark Twain is quoted as stating: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." With due apologies to Mr. Twain, it appears that the death of the Established Business Relationship ("EBR ...
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Defining an “Applicant” in the High Tech World: Emploment Law Alert, March 2004

In the March 4, 2004, the Federal Register, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the Department of Labor, the Department of Justice, and the Office of Personnel Management jointly ...
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Department of Labor Pulls USERRA Notice Poster; Compliant Poster to Be Available on March 10, 2005

On Thursday, March 3, 2005, the United States Department of Labor, Veterans' Employment and Training Service ("VETS"), removed from its website a poster designed to satisfy new notice requirements under the federal statute dealing with military ...
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Direct Investment in Indonesia: A Sectoral Review

(By Michael Horn and Yenti Abdurrachman. Messrs. Horn and Abdurrachman are a partner and a senior associate, respectively, currently on secondment to PT CB Indonesia, our associated office in Indonesia. The following article is condensed from the ...
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