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Our Post in Blogworld.com–Can I Use This in My Blog? Legal Issues With Copyright
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Bloggers are praised and criticized for the content they publish. Whether you are a newly minted blogger or a veteran, you may have noticed that bloggers sometimes get in trouble for what ... > read more
WM Partner on New York Law School Panel re: Internet Law Policy Shifts [Vid]
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WM Partner Kaiser Wahab was pleased to join a panel at New York Law School’s Fashion and Internet Panel in April. The panel discussed issues such as counterfeit goods seizure and enforcement from a policy ... > read more
Incentive-ize Don’t Penalize; Liquidated Damages under New York Law
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By including a liquidated damages clause when negotiating a contract, parties can estimate the amount of damages to serve as a remedy in the event of a breach. This can be a helpful legal tool ... > read more
WM Partner Speaks at New York City Bar Luncheon as Committee Chair
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Continuing the firm’s commitment to education, WM partner Olivera Medenica will be speaking on a City Bar luncheon panel tomorrow on “The Necessities of Opening, Expanding and Running Your Own Practice Effectively” ... > read more
The Wage Theft War on New York Business; Guide to the New Law
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Enter the WPTA, the Secret Weapon on New York Wage Theft The Wage Theft Protection Act (WTPA), which became effective on April 9, 2011, aims to protect workers in New York State from underpayment by ... > read more
2011 Hedge Fund Setup Guide for New York and Beyond–PT. II
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Our own Simon Riveles has for some time been heralding a second coming of small cap hedge funds, even given the current economic climate. However, while many are eying the possibility of starting a hedge ... > read more
2011 Hedge Fund Setup Guide for New York and Beyond–PT. I
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Our own Simon Riveles has for some time been heralding a second coming of small cap hedge funds, even given the current economic climate. However, while many are eying the possibility of starting a ... > read more
Live from New York It’s Social Media Friday: Pocket Guide to TOP TEN Laws any Online Operation Should Know
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Our intern Lauren Mack helped prepare a top ten pocket guide for the top 10 laws any operation (social, e-commerce, IP/UGC driven, etc.) needs to be familiar with now and for the foreseeable future. Having ... > read more
Visual Chart of How Business Counsel Can Assist Companies During their Life Cycle
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For any business in New York or elsewhere, in any sector, from tech to retail to entertainment, the impact of quality business and corporate counsel is key. However, many are confused about specifically how and ... > read more
New York Businesses and Others w Employee Incentive Plans, Do You Know Section 409A?
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Businesses in nearly all sectors seek to leverage equity or other cache to incentivize employees. The classic scenario is the stock option or incentive unit plans you often hear about. While there are many other ... > read more
Cliff Notes for Getting to Know the Major Media, Tech, Business, & IP Legal Issues of 1st Quarter 2011
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As the the legal world turns, the past 6 months alone have pitted the average person against a dizzying array of legal issues to come to grips with in the realm of media, tech, biz, ... > read more
#SXSW Panel Slides; Quick Entree to Copyright/DMCA + Viacom v. Youtube Debate
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For our panel today we’re uploading the slides, which provide a very quick and dirty entree into the business practices all online content distributors should be using in light of the uncertainty and raging debate ... > read more
#SXSW Panel-Viacom v. Google Digital Copyright Debate: Plain Eng. Breakdown of Legal Briefs
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With our SXSW panel coming up (Reconciling YouTube and Grokster: Business Models for Web 3.0), we are gearing up with content that sets the stage for the discussion and provides a plain English vector ... > read more
WM Law Invited to Participate in Harvard Law School’s Online Media Legal Network
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WM Law is proud to announce that it has become a member of Harvard Law School’s Online Media Legal Network. The Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is a free legal referral service that connects qualifying ... > read more
Top Questions to Ask Before your Business Stores Company Data In The #Cloud
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If you own a business, your IT staff is likely one of many across the globe who are slowly convincing businesses owners and managers that storing data in “the cloud” is the future. He or ... > read more
#Ediscovery & Your Business Data Keeps you from Sleeping? Then Know the Four Pillars of a Data Retention Policy
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Writing a Data Retention Policy may seem unimportant when there are so many other aspects of running a business that require your attention, but having one in place will save your company lot of time, ... > read more
Motivate LLC Employees with Smart ESOP Alternatives
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One ever-present challenge with LLC’s is that forcibly grafting corporate concepts and structures into the LLC format is counterproductive at best. Simply, pass-through membership interests are very different from corporate stock. As a result, several ... > read more
Limiting Legal Exposure for Online Platforms with a Preliminary Legal Audit
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Any online operation should periodically assess its legal exposure to better calibrate its contractual, technological, insurance, compliance and other liability minimizing measures. The following is a multidimensional checklist in plain English designed to help these ... > read more
Live from New York it’s #SocialMedia Friday: NY High Court on Online Defamation & Immunity
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Six Months after New York Spoke on Defamation Immunity for Online Service Providers, Analysis & Thoughts By Lauren Mack & Kaiser Wahab The New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, handed down an opinion ... > read more
Why Register a #Copyright? Top 5 Reasons for New York Businesses & Everyone Else
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In nearly every business operation, there are manifold reasons to get a copyright registration. However, against the din of the great multitasking war, many businesses lose sight of the basic “no brainer” points behind getting ... > read more
#Cloud Service Contracts: Breaking Down the all Important Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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For many businesses, storing company and customer information in the cloud may seem like the cheapest and most convenient option. Too often however, businesses rarely realize that with one-click ease they are putting critical data ... > read more
Top 5 Ways to Help Ensure Your Business has Click-Wrap Agreements that Work
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The bedrock of nearly any online business operation, from e-commerce sites to social media outlets is the mighty “click-wrap” agreement (a digital extension of the equally mighty but very 20th century shrink-wrap agreement). These agreements ... > read more
Raising $$ for Your Business? SEC Considers Relaxing Ban on General Solicitation
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By: Simon Riveles As Congress grapples with ways to kick start the economy and spur small business formation and growth, one proposal it is considering is relaxing the long-standing ban on general advertising or solicitation imposed on private ... > read more
Live From New York: It’s Social Media Friday–The Argument for Data Retention Policies in the Social Media Age
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Social media is business media. In 2011, everything from Twitter to Facebook are no longer relegated to the fringe of personal vanity projects. And to wit, company PR, HR, R&D, and every other conceivable department, ... > read more
SXSW Online Content Panel: Legal Summary of Grokster vs. Viacom in Plain’ish Eng. Pt.2
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With our SXSW panel coming up, we are gearing up with content that sets the stage for the discussion and provides a plain English vector into the issues that face online content distributors in the ... > read more
Lauren Mack Joins WM Team as Intern
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Lauren Mack is a second-year student at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she is concentrating in Intellectual Property and serves on the staff of the Cardozo Journal of Law & ... > read more
David Ugelow Joins Team at WM Law
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We are happy to announce that David Ugelow has joined our team as an intern. We are confident that his particular outlook on venture and technology law will bring fresh and exciting insight to the ... > read more
SXSW Online Content Panel: Legal Summary of Grokster vs. Viacom in Plain’ish Eng. Pt.1
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With our SXSW panel coming up, we are gearing up with content that sets the stage for the discussion and provides a plain English vector into the issues that face online content distributors in the ... > read more
New York Businesses Raising Capital and Others Must Know Difference Between Regulation S and D: Case in Point Facebook
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Facebook’s recent securities offering has everyone and their mother abuzz with glee about getting in early on the newest rocket-ship to easy living. The only glitch? This round is not only private, but it likely ... > read more
Live From New York It’s Social Media Sunday—ICE’s Domain Name Seizure Spree Edition
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For years, many have decried the inability of law enforcement to take a firmer approach to the world of infringing peer to peer file sharing. In particular, torrent tracker sites have long confounded them. This ... > read more
Copyright Transfers for New York Businesses and Others—Don’t Forget: Record the Assignment
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When purchasing or selling a copyright one has to understand two major concepts: 1) a copyright is not a single slab of intellectual property, but rather a bundle of rights; and 2) sometimes it makes ... > read more
For New York Businesses—The S-Corp is Not the Clear Choice Over an LLC
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Many a New York business startup ponders and ponders and ponders the seemingly impossible choice between forming an S-Corp (really forming a New York C-Corp that elects to be taxed as a C-Corp) versus forming ... > read more
Live from New York It’s Social Media Friday: WM Presents at South Southwest (SXSW)
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W&M is proud to announce that it will host and present a featured panel at the 2011 SXSW festival. The festival is one of the premiere annual destinations for tech ventures, producers, musical artists, filmmakers, ... > read more
World of Warcraft Ruling: Terms of Service Critical for New York Businesses and Others with Online Platforms
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Day before yesterday, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled (PDF file) that a WOW bot (i.e., a third party piece of software designed to automate a process in the infamously famous time destroyer ... > read more
New York Businesses and Others Importing Copyrighted Goods for Resale—The Supreme Court May have Made You an Infringer
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In the world of copyrighted goods, there is a very important concept that hampers copyright holders but protects resellers: the so called “First Sale Doctrine.” Essentially that doctrine states that when a copyright article is ... > read more
Live from New York It’s Social Media Friday-Net Porn Lawsuit Spree 2 point 0
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As the year 2010 comes to a close, it seems fitting to report on the new wave of the new wave of copyright lawsuits targeting users of a key platform of the soon to be ... > read more
When does a Loan Under New York Business Law Run Afoul of Usury?
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Lending money is an industry agnostic event—entertainment, technology, real estate, and retail all resort to private lending to raise money. And since many of these industries reside in New York, often New York businesses enter ... > read more
Live from New York it’s Social Media Friday’s—Foreign Government Eavesdropping Edition
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Globalization, a word that is equally loved and loathed, is often associated with outsourcing and Chinese import products, but rarely with social media and technology. However, the fact is that for many technologies to sustain ... > read more
FTC’s New Consumer Report Doesn’t Buy In to “Death” of #Privacy
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Just last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its much anticipated final report on consumer privacy protection: “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change”. Those who ballyhoo the death of privacy as we ... > read more
New York Businesses and Others in Online Content Distribution—Don’t Forget your DMCA Copyright Agent
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To those providing content (whether user generated, or generated in house, etc.) the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is no stranger. In plain English, it provides the now well celebrated (and derided) safe harbor whereby an ... > read more
Till Death Do Us Part: Joint Authorship Agreements for Co-Authors and Co-Creators
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The rise of collaboration technologies has led to more authors collaborating on screenplays, articles, books, and various other creative works. This free exchange of ideas can lead to timely, efficient, and lower-cost works, but also ... > read more
The Fashion Business Webinar Series Available for Purchase
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The Fashion Business Webinar Series Available for Purchase PART I-This webinar covers the basics of starting out a fashion label. It’s a dense webinar (about 1h 45 min), covering a lot of topics from ... > read more
Taking a Public Company Private – An Overview
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By: Simon Riveles In recent years an increasing number of small to mid-sized pubic companies have elected to go private for reasons including: (i) eliminating legal, accounting and public relations costs associated with being ... > read more
Live from NYC, It’s #SocialMedia Friday–Employer Questions on Employee Online Conduct Answered
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Top Employer Questions on Employee Social Media Conduct Answered By: Kaiser Wahab and Lauren Mack Employers are now on full alert that employee’s online activity in the office and in the home has a direct, often beneficial ... > read more
The Ten Minute #SocialMedia Insurance Coverage Primer
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By: Olivera Medenica Originally Given as part of a lecture to the New York State Bar Association on Friday, May 20, 2011 This outline was provided to the at the New York State Bar Association as a ... > read more
JOBS Act Passed, Now What? 5 things Mature Biz + Entrepreneurs Need to Think About
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By: Kaiser Wahab and Lauren Mack On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), which makes substantial changes securities laws by making it easier for startups and ... > read more