Author: Carolyn Wimbly MartinPublished: June 2nd, 2021From the SolarWinds debacle to the Colonial Pipeline hack, cybersecurity has been making news headlines. Now, nearly ten years after then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta predicted the U.S. would face a “cyber-Pearl Harbor,” the Federal Government has finally acted. The new Executive Order has
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Author: Susan LutzkerPublished: February 24th, 2021Rights to tangible religious property in the Indian legal system can be held and enforced by deities, who are considered juridical persons. Some cultural monuments and religious sites have become embroiled in a larger battle to reinterpret Indian history. The Indian practice is part of
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly Martin, Ethan BarrPublished: November 30th, 2020Embedding photos linked to an Instagram account was not considered copyright infringement until some recent court decisions determined otherwise, leaving social media platforms scrambling to protect user content.Click here to view entire blog article at Lutzker & Lutzker.
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly Martin, Ethan BarrPublished: December 30th, 2020Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is designed to prevent users from illicitly copying or distributing copyrighted material. However, content providers have also used the technology to remove content from users e-libraries that consumers have been led to believe were purchases, rather than short
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly MartinPublished: December 30th, 2020The 5,593-page coronavirus relief and government spending bill passed by Congress without much discussion in the final days of 2020 contains several pieces of intellectual property legislation worth noting. These Acts would impact trademark applications and registrations as well as intellectual property litigation. The following
Read MoreAuthor: Susan LutzkerPublished: July 6, 2020The recent destruction of 46,000 year-old rock shelters in Western Australia by the actions of mining giant Rio Tinto has focused attention on the proposed new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act. The new law would expand the definition of significant sites from dots on a map to
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