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Events 5 March 2024: Workshop on Digital Assets, Ownership and Property Rights Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, in partnership with the Cloud Legal Project at CCLS, is organising a workshop exploring how the concepts of ownership and property rights relate and apply to digital assets.

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Informed NIL Deals: Basic Contract Law Education Should be Required for All College Athletes

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There are formal contracts to outline the finer points and, in such cases, licensed professionals are involved to help the athlete understand their legal obligations. Sometimes it is so informal that the athlete does not realize they have entered into a contract that creates legal obligations just as real as the big money deals listed above.

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ERA IP-focused events and courses return with 25% discount for IPKat readers

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As an added bonus, participants will have the exclusive opportunity to attend a hearing at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg.

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Weight Watchers' pandemic termination of in-person services didn't violate consumer protection law

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Quintanilla alleged that WW’s cancellation of in-person services, and transition of its workshop services online, without issuing refunds or any reduction in membership fees, violated the usual California consumer-protection statutes and constituted breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and money had and received.

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More On The Federal Effort to Ban Non-Competes: The FTC’s Proposed Rule and the Workforce Mobility Act of 2023

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See our article, Against the Evidence: How the FTC Cast Aside the Input of Experts at Its Own Non-Compete Workshop. For a more detailed look at the Workforce Mobility Act of 2023, see our article, Bipartisan Bill to Ban Most Non-Compete Agreements Reintroduced in U.S.

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Transatlantic Dialogue Workshop, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School Part 1: Overarching Questions

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Tort-based culture can’t be the full explanation because Pahlka documents these problems in places like military contracting where there’s no tort potential.] Europeans don’t think the regulators will be unreasonable. 1 ask of civil society: keep us involved in the process; no particular ask other than role in interpretation.

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Harvard Law Webinar on Teaching First-Generation Students in Law School, March 10, 12 pm EST

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Etienne Toussaint is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law where he teaches Contracts, Business Associations, Secured Transactions, and related seminar courses. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and as a student he served as a Teaching Assistant in the Negotiation Workshop.

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