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Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer
I Was a Guest on URBusiness Network’s “CHAOS Tuesday” Internet Radio Show
Whew, that is a mouthful. I was a teenage werewolf? No, I was a guest on URBusiness Network's CHAOS Tuesday Internet Radio Show. Here's what it means. URBusiness Network, or "URBN," is, in its own words, an "online radio station streaming 24/7 with business specific programing." This is, needless to say, not your father's radio station. In fact, it is "radio" only by analogy. Think "entirely new business technology model made possible by increases in Internet bandwidth." In other words,...
Supreme Court to Review 9th Circuit Decision in “Raging Bull” Copyright Case
The Supreme Court accepts fewer than 1% of the requests for review submitted to it, and review of copyright cases is relatively rare.* Yesterday, the Court accepted review (or, in lawyer-speak, granted a "petition for writ of certiorari") in Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. *Based on my quick count, the Court has decided 15 copyright cases since 1985. Since 1981 Paula Petrella has been the owner (by way of copyright reversion and inheritance) of her father Frank Petrella's copyright...
Judge Stearns Weighs in on Legal Standard for Copyright Takedown Notices
What legal standard should the courts use to penalize a copyright owner for sending a copyright takedown notice that results in the takedown of a copy protected by fair use? This issue has come up infrequently since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was enacted in 1998, and never in the First Circuit, but now it is pending in two cases before different federal district court judges in Boston, one of which has reached a conclusion early in the case. The Issue Copyright owners complain...
Massachusetts Tech Tax Repealed
Gesmer Updegrove Client Advisory - Massachusetts Tech Tax Repealed. Click here to download a pdf from gesmer.com. [scribd id=172168113 key=key-sgirfk6wqgo3hc74rku mode=scroll]
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