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07/15/2013

New York State Enacts Major Change to Labor Law Benefiting Child ModelsThe NYS Legislature (Bill A07787/S05486) has amended Labor Law §150 and Arts & Cultural Affairs Law §35.01 to include “runway and print modeling” to the definition and regulation of “artistic or creative services” provided by chi...

02/01/2013

D'Avanzo Morreale hits the NY Post! No comment...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/french_silent_models_not_golden_rVFr2jAs41BaXYkHsAMOgI

Sometimes New York isn’t so pretty — even for a successful modeling agency.The founders of Paris-based Silent Models, a flourishing agency that represents Sports Illustrated swimsuit...

08/04/2012

Court Rules Embedding Video Is Not Copyright Infringement http://mashable.com/2012/08/03/embedding-video-copyright-infringement/

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a site that embeds copyrighted videos is not committing copyright infringement.

05/31/2012

An inspiring appellate decision on the defamatory nature of calling someone "gay."

The panel turned aside decisions from all four appellate departments as well as Court of Appeals dicta holding that 'falsely imputing homosexuality' is among the handful of false allegations that are per se defamatory.

05/21/2012

D'Avanzo Morreale is successful in domain name dispute on behalf of fashion supermodel and photographer Astrid Munoz.

D’Avanzo Morreale wins UDRP arbitration on behalf of fashion supermodel Astrid Munoz over the ownership of the domain astridmunoz.com Fashion supermodel and photographer Astrid Munoz retained D’Avanzo Morreale after discovering the misappropriation of her name through the website astridmunoz....

04/10/2012

04/09/2012

In case the law is your thing on a Saturday night... http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/law_the_movies/

Tonight, the eyes of movie fans will be trained on the red carpet as the Hollywood glitterati assemble for the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The event has us thinking about how the law, lawyers and lawyering have been portrayed on the silver screen over the years. In the above photo from Reversal of F...

04/02/2012

Anonymous bloggers beware...

http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202547368488&PreAction_Disclosure_of_Internet_Speakers_Identities&slreturn=1

Scott M. Himes, a member of Stillman & Friedman, writes that although using it for this purpose raises unsettled issues, New York's pre-action disclosure statute provides a well-suited mechanism for unmasking an electronic speaker's identity, offering broader pre-action discovery than comparable fed...

03/27/2012

Does the STOCK Act chill political speech?
http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202546944492&Is_the_STOCK_Act_Unconstitutional

Peter G. Neiman, a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, writes that barring members of Congress from trading on material non-public information obtained through their service to the public is, and should be, uncontroversial, but the STOCK Act goes much further than that and threatens to...

03/23/2012

Clickwrap vs. Browsewrap agreements - an important distinction in the social media world
http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202545266528&Court_Analyzes_and_Enforces_Facebooks_Terms_of_Service

In his Intellectual Property column, Stephen M. Kramarsky, a member of Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky, writes that Facebook has what most practitioners would consider a bullet-proof clickwrap signup system, but a Southern District Court recently saw it differently and ended up doing an extensive analysis r...

03/22/2012

3/16/12 - D’Avanzo Morreale assists in the successful defense of a $25M arbitration on behalf of biotech client. www.davanzomorreale.com

We formed D’Avanzo & Morreale with the knowledge that winning doesn’t come easily. It takes great strategy, flawless ex*****on, honed experience, and sound judgment.

02/29/2012

NY's First department follows Zubulake for cost-shift in e-discovery, adopting yet another of Zubulake's many e-discovery rulings.
http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202543818358&1st_Department_Adopts_Zubulake_on_Bearing_Costs_in_Discovery&slreturn=1

The cost of finding and producing both electronically stored information and physical documents must initially fall on the party responding to a discovery request, though courts may shift that cost at their discretion, a unanimous First Department panel has ruled.