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Registration of Foreign Works is Required to Collect Statutory Damages
Intellectual Property Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Newsletter November 2009
According to a recent decision from a U.S. district court, the owner of copyrights in works created outside the United States cannot collect statutory damages for infringement in the U.S. unless the...

Internet's expansion with internationalized domain names may spur registration boom and cybersquatting
Intellectual Property Duane Morris, Newsletter November 2009
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)—which is responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses on the Internet—approved a new plan on...

Societal concerns and the law
International Law NCTM O'Connor, Newsletter November 2009
Introduction The participants at this OECD workshop have been asked to address two questions. What are the characteristics of societal concerns that: (1) make them different from any other policy...
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Nordic Project - Challenging Cross-Border Tax Evasion
Tax law Brækhus Dege, Newsletter November 2009
Upon learning that 18,000 companies cite the same Cayman Islands address, in a building named after a Norwegian family, US President Obama said that "either this is the largest building in the world...