- A Reconsideration of the Physicians’ Immunity Statute
By: Steve Dirksen
The author assesses the “physicians’ immunity statute” from legal policy, ethical, and financial perspectives, and concludes that alternatives such as licensure and monetary incentives would better serve the goal of encouraging ...
- Monitoring Employee E-Mail: Efficient Workplaces vs. Employee Privacy
By: Corey A. Ciocchetti
Employer monitoring of electronic mail constitutes an emerging area of the law that is clearly unsettled at this point in time. This iBrief demonstrates that the privacy rights of non ...
- Freelance Articles and Electronic Databases: Who Owns the Copyrights?
By: Christine Soares
There has long been uncertainty as to who owns the rights to digital reproductions of freelance articles. The Supreme Court has recently affirmed that copyrights for the digital reproduction of freelance ...
- Copyrights in Computer-Generated Works: Whom, if Anyone, Do We Reward?
By: Darin Glasser
Computer-generated works raise grave authorship concerns under U.S. copyright law, with arguments in favor of allocating copyrights to the computer user, programmer, the computer itself, or some combination therein. The author ...
- International Liability in Cyberspace
By: Matthew Crane
Activities in cyberspace often expose companies to “cybertorts”, a species of tort particularly difficult to reconcile with standard insurance policies. The author explores some of the difficulties in obtaining coverage for ...
