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DCMA agent requirements changing

By Jay Levine on October 9, 2017

Bob Morgan, our colleague at Technology Law Source, shares detail about the upcoming Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) agent filing change that takes effect Dec. 31.

This agent filing is a necessary element of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor provision (Title II of the DMCA (the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act)) — an Act which shields online service providers from liability for material posted by their users. If your company has an interactive website, social media presence, or message board it’s worth giving this a read: DMCA agent requirements changing by end of …

Don’t wannacry? Help your IT staff prevent ransomware

By Jay Levine on May 22, 2017

The latest cyberattack making the news (and some say the largest to date) is the “Wannacry” ransomware. The ransomware looks for computers containing an operating system vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows platform and then appears to infect computers… without a single click required. My colleague, Brian Hall, outlines the risks employers may face when dealing with cyberattacks — as well as how human resource departments can help protect their organizations in his recent blog post “Don’t wannacry? Help your IT staff prevent ransomware“.…