The technology boom has provided opportunities for practitioners to work more efficiently by making available a host of timesaving, as well as cost-effective, tools. Sadly, modern technology has also provided the less scrupulous segments of society with opportunities to take advantage of others. All too familiar are the Nigerian money scams that…

Patents, trade secrets, copyrights and the like are all forms of "intellectual property," though the rules governing each are quite distinct. Patents and trade secrets apply to functional works that are new and innovative. Copyrights, on the other hand, apply to pictorial, textual and sculptural works--works that may not be functional at all. In…

Music copyright is one of the most complex areas of intellectual property law. To begin with, there is a copyright in notated music and a copyright in accompanying lyrics. When the piece is performed, there is a copyright in the performance that is separate and apart from the copyright in the underlying work. If a sound recording is used in…