Monday, January 5, 2009

Happy New Year!

Hello!

Happy New Year! I hope your holiday break was wonderful! I am so excited to start the New Year. This is a very exciting time for Intellectual Property Law! There are some fantastic conferences on legal issues in new media that I am attending this year. Also I am very curious about the effect the newly created Intellectual Property Coordinator/Czar will have on IP issues in this new digital age.

In March I am attending another Practising Law Institute Conference which will focus on Intellectual Property law issues in Web 2.0. Specifically, the conference will cover:

Legal issues using mobile devices
Liability issues in social networks and blogs
Use of key words and meta-tags. I discussed these issues here.
The future of advertising and product placement.

I am particularly interested in the future of advertising and product placement as it relates to advertisers using social media and various new media platforms. I am so looking forward to this conference and can't wait to report back to you (my readers) about the cutting edge legal issues affecting your blogs, social networks, and other new media platforms.

Thank you for continually reading and supporting IP LAW 101. If there are any other topics you would like me to discuss, or if you have any questions, please let me know.

Best!

2 comments:

Ananda said...

This is great news about the conferences. Do you plan to address copyright issues for authors who use names anonymously and then copyright under their legal name. How do they write their copyright statement? Do they use their pen name or legal name?

Phillips Givens, LLC said...

To Anada: Use your legal name and pen name on the application. I believe there is a box to check pseudonym name. Make sure you give your legal name as the owner. If there is a legal claim or dispute, you would want to assert that you are indeed the owner.