Friend Hudak Harris

If you are running a technology business that deals with content provided by users or other third parties—or even if your business simply has an interactive web presence that allows users to post their own comments or photos or contains links to other websites—there are important changes you need to know about to limit your liability for copyright infringement caused by your users and other third parties. Here’s what you need to know.

On November 22, 2016 a federal judge blocked the implementation of the Final Rule by granting a motion for a nationwide preliminary injunction filed by twenty-one states and joined by over fifty business organizations.

There is no such thing as a “standard” or “boilerplate” dispute resolution clause in a commercial contract. One size does not fit all, and a poorly drafted or incomplete dispute resolution clause can do more harm than good. Paying attention to dispute resolution issues at the time the contract is drafted can avoid costly surprises later on, when a dispute has arisen and the ability of the parties to agree on anything has diminished significantly.

Laura will practice in the areas of telecommunications, advertising, marketing, advertising compliance and privacy.

Many businesses prefer to classify members of their workforce as independent contractors rather than as employees because it usually seems cheaper and easier for the business to do so. However, as recent cases involving Lyft and Uber demonstrate, the consequences of misclassifying workers as independent contractors when they should have been classified (and paid) as employees can be significant, maybe even catastrophic, to your business.