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[] To ensure delivery to your mailbox please add domain @lexology.com to your safe senders list [View in Browser]( [Lexology]( [My Account]( | [About]( | [Search Archive (873,110 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [Is Your Small Business Prioritizing Cybersecurity?]( Jackson Lewis PC A recent study Surveying small and mid sized businesses (SMBs) found that 67% had experienced a cyber attack in 2018, and yet that same study found… [California Court Issues Major Decision for the Email Marketing Industry]( California Klein Moynihan Turco LLP A trial court in California recently issued a ruling interpreting California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.5 (“17529.5”) in Greenberg… [Google, Cookies, and Cy-Pres-Only Settlements]( Pierce Atwood LLP In a case strikingly similar to a case that had been before the Supreme Court last term and that involves the same defendant and the same… [Big Picture Loans Lands Big Win for Tribal Lenders in Sovereign Immunity Case]( Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP In a recent decision by the Fourth Circuit, Big Picture Loans, LLC, an online lender owned and operated by the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior… [Part 1: Companies Are Not Complying With the Safe Harbor Provision of the DMCA]( Baker & Hostetler LLP The most recent changes to U.S. copyright rules driven by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) became effective on Dec. 1, 2016… [Newsletter Technologie & Kommunikation - Juli/August 2019]( Bird & Bird ​Am 29.7.2019 hat der EuGH seine Grundsatzentscheidung i.S. „Fashion ID“ (Rs. 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