Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

Many of my clients have contractors or vendors or virtual assistants who assist them with writing blog posts, creating newsletters, doing social media posting and work. When you hire someone to write or post or do social media for you, or create most types of content, it is generally a work for hire type of agreement. First, contracts.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below. Contractors Inc. Generally Known and Readily Ascertainable Defenses to Trade Secret Misappropriation. There have been some noteworthy recent decisions in trade secrets law. In Oakwood Lab’ys LLC v. Thanoo , 999 F.3d 3d 892 (3d Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

. “Riben was not HuffPost’s employee and was not paid by HuffPost for the content that she submitted to HuffPost…[the] blogger terms and conditions were agreed to by the parties and expressly stated that content contributors were independent contractors and could not hold themselves out as an agent or representative of HuffPost.”

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Publishing Privacy Blogging Intellectual Property Law 101

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

As my Content Moderation Remedies paper showed, this topic is way more complicated than a binary remove/leave up dichotomy. In other words, I don’t think Zauderer –a recent darling of the pro-censorship crowd–is the right test (I will have more to say on this topic). The type of media (video vs. text, etc.).

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