Illinois (IL) Internet E Commerce CLE Course Catalog

Please join our distinguished panel of experts as they decipher the most recent federal bailout programs and developments. The panel will also discuss how best to successfully navigate the liquidity issues arising in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the coronavirus continues to spread in China and other parts of the world, it is critical for businesses to reassess their connections to global supply chains, evaluate workforce-related issues, and examine risk-minimization and quantization brought about by the pandemic.

A data breach occurs, whats next? Once it is determined that a breach has occurred there are a series of steps the legal department should take to determine the size of the impact, how the attack occurred, and how to prevent future attacks. This process will involve an investigation and potentially litigation. Therefore, having a strategic plan in place prior to a breach is imperative.

Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act--BIPA--has become a central piece of legislation influencing other states and impacting businesses in every sphere. Do you know how BIPA and other similar state laws work? Join two leading experts to learn what you need to know.

Are you a busy business lawyer confronted with conundrums of cryptocurrencies and baffling blockchain technology? The law in this area evolves almost daily -- don't get left behind. This program offers you the insight on how this transformative technology is disrupting business law from startup companies to regulators and beyond. Our panelists not only paint a picture of the current landscape, they cast their eyes to the horizon and provide insight into where this technology will be impacting business law in the future.

This program introduces basic technological concepts like “linking,” “embedding,” “how browsers and websites are served” in a robust manner probably beyond the common sense understanding of these concepts, but just enough to explain why the way these technologies really “work” is critical to the arguments that you make as a copyright litigator.

In this keynote presentation, Cybersecurity Expert and International TV Commentator Adriana Sanford, will outline that GCs and in-house counsel need to know when facing a security risk. This session will also discuss how the regulation of global threats from jurisdictions outside the US can create corporate exposure, and what GCs can do to minimize risk in the face of a global threat.

You’ll learn about the different “characteristics” licenses and how they may be limited in ways like duration and geographic area. We’ll do a deep dive into using APIs in the software context and for music licensing in the content creation context. We’ll briefly introduce concepts open licenses which are becoming increasingly important which will segue into the next program in our series about open licensing and creative commons. Throughout, we will give practice notes for drafting, negotiating, and advising clients around license agreements and relate the material here to other parts of this series.

In this program, Art and Shaun from New Right Media will walk through the basics of fair use and its “four factor” test. They’ll further break down the analysis of those four factors into their sub-factors, highlighting case examples where a factor was particularly critical to the final ruling.