The 1919 Chicago White Sox & The 2017 Houston Astros: The Sign Stealing Mechanisms That Makes A Difference

By Matthew Kalhofer Legal claims are currently being brought against the 2017 Houston Astros, a Major League Baseball (“MLB”) team. The 2017 Astros used video surveillance to engage in an unauthorized sign-stealing scheme involving the use of the opposing team’s pitches. The current legal claims involve “unfair business practices, negligence, and intentional interference with contractual and… Read More The 1919 Chicago White Sox & The 2017 Houston Astros: The Sign Stealing Mechanisms That Makes A Difference

The TikTok Craze: A Video Sharing App Based on Copyright Infringement

This blog explores the popularity of the app TikTok and how its widespread use is leading to copyright infringement issues. Users that create video content with music soundtracks or movie scripts are violating United States copyright law. Most importantly, copyright owners are not gaining the recognition or royalty money that they deserve—leading to a minimally regulated video-sharing system that is continuously robbing artists.… Read More The TikTok Craze: A Video Sharing App Based on Copyright Infringement

Privacy Risks vs. Public Health: How to Vote During A Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted our global society and changed the way society functions. COVID-19 poses a serious threat to individuals’ ability to vote. With state primaries and the 2020 presidential election looming, states and lawmakers are frantically trying to solve the issue of voting access and voter security during a time of social distancing and quarantine restrictions. … Read More Privacy Risks vs. Public Health: How to Vote During A Pandemic

Necessitating Strict Regulation Of Access To Consumer Location Data

By Matthew Kalhofer Introduction: Several U.S. wireless carriers previously contracted to sell location-sharing data to data purchasing companies. This sparked an investigation into the legality of these data companies’ access and the use of such confidential information. The companies that have contracted to purchase this location-sharing data from wireless carriers are alleged to have been… Read More Necessitating Strict Regulation Of Access To Consumer Location Data

Monetary Fines and Monopolization: The Case for More Aggressive Anti-Trust Measures in the World of Tech

By William Raven “Google was the original gateway to the web. I’m here today to speak about how Google betrayed the web” stated Yelp policy head Luther Lowe at a Senate hearing on digital platforms focusing on anticompetitive practices. “Google physically demoted non-Google results even if they contained information with higher quality scores” further claimed… Read More Monetary Fines and Monopolization: The Case for More Aggressive Anti-Trust Measures in the World of Tech

AI-Powered Contract Management Systems: AI to Solve the Struggle of Contracting

Nearly all growing companies, including law firms, employ a small legal team working hard behind the scenes on various paperwork transactions, especially contracts. These legal teams carry great influence and play a vital business role. A recent study conducted by a software company, Apttus, revealed that 65-percent of legal professionals say that their biggest challenge at work is the time lost locating, reviewing, and analyzing paper documents. As a result, 40-percent of legal departments now use some sort of automated contract management system to deal with their paperwork transactions. Further, 29-percent of law firms are actively seeking the use of a contract management system, and it’s about time. Recent technological developments like artificial intelligence have assisted and boosted contract management systems by helping companies overcome the challenges of contracting. The rise of artificial intelligence integrated contract management systems is inevitable and legal teams must learn the technology or they will fall behind to their competition and fail client expectations.… Read More AI-Powered Contract Management Systems: AI to Solve the Struggle of Contracting

Privacy Risks vs. Public Health: How to Vote During A Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted our global society and changed the way society functions. COVID-19 poses a serious threat to individuals’ ability to vote. With state primaries and the 2020 presidential election looming, states and lawmakers are frantically trying to solve the issue of voting access and voter security during a time of social distancing and quarantine restrictions. … Read More Privacy Risks vs. Public Health: How to Vote During A Pandemic