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Previous Events & CLE Programs
September 18, 2008
Committee Meeting
Recent Open Source Law Developments: Jacobsen v. Katzer (Fed. Cir. August 12, 2008)
Sponsors
Intellectual Property Law Committee
Computer & Internet Law Committee
Robert Blasi, Goodwin Proctor LLP, and Karen Copenhaver, Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, will discuss the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer, holding that the distribution of software in breach of the applicable 'open source' license constituted copyright infringement. The session will include a brief discussion of open source licensing and some of the contract law issues implicated by the decision.
April 1, 2008
Committee Meeting
Licensing Software as a Service: Practical Tips and Pointers
Many software companies have adopted a new business model – licensing their software as a service. What is software as a service and how does this model differ from a traditional end user license? What practical tips and pointers should the licensing practitioner consider in drafting and negotiating licenses for software as a service? Jonathan Levitt, Principal of Outside GC LLC will discuss these and many other software as a service licensing questions.
March 11, 2008
Committee Meeting
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: An Overview and Discussion of a Recent First Circuit Case
Sponsors
Computer & Internet Law Committee
Intellectual Property Law Committee
Join John Bauer, Robinson & Cole LLC, and Scott J. Nathan, to learn more about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and its impact on your day to day practice. We will also discuss the implications of a recent first circuit case, EF Cultural Travel BV v. Zefer Corporation and Explorica, Inc.
January 8, 2008
Committee Meeting
Do Software Patents Have Value?
Love them or hate them, software patents are here to stay. But is that a good thing? The people who hate them cite long delays, high cost and varying coverage. Devotees see patents as the only reliable IP mechanism available to protect software. Steven J. Frank, Goodwin Procter LLP, will consider the question from business and legal perspectives -- what's possible in a changing legal and regulatory environment, what's advisable in terms of strategy, when having a patent is worse than doing nothing at all, and what, exactly, is a software patent, anyway?
December 3, 2007
CLE Program
Computer Software Licensing 101
Sponsored by: The Computer and Internet Law Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Section
Your client’s proprietary software is a valuable business asset. The terms and conditions on which this software is licensed are key to protecting this asset. Understanding the basic elements of a software license is the first step to helping your clients create a software license agreement that best meets their needs. Negotiating tactics from the licensor’s and licensee’s perspective will be discussed.
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May 4, 2007
CLE Program
Privacy & Information Security for the Corporate Enterprise
Sponsors
Intellectual Property Law Section
Business Law Section
International Law Section
Few issues today have greater urgency for American companies than information protection. This program will explore the current state of privacy and information security law globally, and will describe some of the key areas that companies should consider when creating or expanding their privacy and information protection programs.
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January 17, 2007
Committee Meeting
The Google Cases and Developing Issues in Copyright Law
**This meeting is co-sponsored with the Intellectual Property Litigation Committee and The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.**
Bradley E. Abruzzi, an Associate of the Office of the General Counsel of Harvard University, will discuss Google Inc.'s emergence as an unlikely champion of fair use rights in the minefield of digital media. He will discuss the aggressive business practices that have landed Google in federal court as a regular defendant of copyright claims, including:
- Google's crawling and caching of websites for its core search engine functionality
- the company's Image Search feature
- the Google Print Library Project
- the company's recent acquisition of YouTube and the raft of copyright claims that come with it.
Attention will be given to recent court decisions relating to Google's practices, as well as the state of litigations currently in progress.
October 11, 2006
Committee Meeting
What is Web 2.0?
James Britt, I.T. Director at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP, will discuss Web 2.0 which is a broad reference to the web-based technologies that survived and flourished since the dotcom bubble burst in 2001. Also known as the "Participatory Web", these new technologies provide tools and platforms that enable users to tag, blog, comment, modify, augment, select from, rank, and generally talk back to the contributions of other users and the general world community. Web 2.0 companies have established exciting new ways for people to network and to collaborate.
This presentation provides a brief introduction to Web 2.0 and a discussion of how these technologies might impact the business of law and of your clients.
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