How To Use Metadata As An Examination Tool

In today's computer dependent world, the zealous advocate must be able to navigate his way through every conceivable form of discovery in order to effectively represent his or her client. Failure to seek the appropriate records or the failure to respond to discovery requests with the appropriate electronic discovery knowledge could potentially expose both client and attorney to the risk of sanctions for discovery abuses and/or result in the spoliation of evidence.

Microsoft Busted on Paid Wikipedia Modification

Wikipedia has become one of those odd internet sites that have evolved into a phenomenon. Alas, some companies don't like what is written about them.

Protecting Your Website Legally From the Music Industry

Explains to website owners the potential risk of putting music on a website without the proper licensing.

Fair Use - When You Should Attribute Your Sources And When You Should Seek Copyright Protection

There is some confusion as to what constitutes plagiarism and fair use online. Particularly where blogs are concerned, it has become customary to borrow a few sentences of someone else's work if you add content and change it for the better and as long as you link back to the original source. While borrowing someone else's work may not always be copyright infringement, it may not be necessary or beneficial. Here are some guidelines with regard to using someone else's material and on seeking remedy for infringement of your own copyrighted material.

Your Online Video May Cost You Thousands

Explains the significance of the Viacom lawsuit and what sort of impact amateur videographers might expect.

File-Sharing Redux - The Battle Continues and the Battlefield Expands

File-sharing battle has gone from music to video, with Viacom charging YouTube with copyright violation. Steps traditional media with lots of content can take to protect copyright holders.

Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Computer Forensics and E-Discovery

A brief overview of the changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that went into effect on 12-1-06 with regards to Computer Forensics and Electronic Discovery (E-Discovery).

What is an Expert Witness in Computer Forensics?

Expert witness service provides testimony, documentation and witness preparation to help present discovered electronic data in legal proceedings to help you prove and win your case.

Nation's First National Computer Forensics Institute will be Located in Alabama

Governor Bob Riley officially announced that the nation's first National Computer Forensics Institute will be located in Hoover, Alabama.

What is Digital Rights Management (DRM)?

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, or as some people call it, Digital Restrictions Management. Put simply, DRM consists of various restrictions applied in music or video files, so their use (such as playback) can be controlled by a third party, usually the company holding the copyright for a song or movie.

Should Lawyers use Metadata?

The question clearly beckons, should lawyers review metadata in documents? Is reviewing this data ethical, when the author of such data likely had no idea they were creating it? Metadata by its definition is simply, data about data. It can contain all sort of identifying information. One of the easiest ways for metadata to be left in a document is for the comments section to leave the comments feature turned on. Similarly, if you leave track changes turned on, the receiving attorney can not only read confidential comments that were meant to be intra-office or privileged communications between he attorney and client, but also the attorney can see what content was deleted from the document.

Best And Top New York Immigration Lawyer Of NY?

Although anyone can read the migration policies and can understand the issues NY citizenship and formalities within, but it is always better to handover the issues to Immigration lawyer and do their jobs for better results.

Laws for Blogs

A Blog is short for Web Log and has become a new and exciting form of communication. It is like a diary or a journal personal or corporate that is posted on the Internet for public viewing and updated from time to time. It enables people to publish comments, ideas and opinions for others to read. Besides being a personal from of expression, corporate blogs offer a platform for marketing new ideas, communication channels between management and employees, discussion of industry and media trends, news coverage and even political expressions. We also have law blogs, school blogs and marketing blogs.

Avoiding Liability for Your Web Sites

Allowing visitors to post messages in one's Web site has become increasingly popular. However, recent cases have shown that doing so may subject the Web-site owner to liability for contributory copyright infringement or defamation.