Daliah Saper to Speak at WindyCityRails Confererence
Daliah will speak at the WindyCityRails Conference on Thursday, September 4, 2014. The Conference will be held at Venue One, 1044 West Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607. Daliah will speak from 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. on "Key Legal Considerations for the Software Developer." *WindyCityRails is an annual gathering for all who are passionate about Ruby on Rails. Developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and investors all find value in WindyCityRails. For more information about the Conference, please click on the link below:
Saper Law Associate Aaron Midler Lectures at Forensecure ’14
Saper Law attorney Aaron Midler presented at the ForenSecure conference in Wheaton, Illinois on Thursday, April 17th. Aaron's lecture focused on the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The event, a two-day security and forensics conference and expo, was hosted by the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education at IIT’s Rice Campus (located at 121 East Loop Road, Wheaton, IL 60189). For more information about the event, click on the link below:
Deliver or Get Sued: KickStarter’s Terms of Use Are Legally Binding
Crowd-funding sites like "Kickstarter" involve serious commitments. Not just for those who pledge money, but also for those who promise to deliver the product in exchange for that money. Case and point: the State of Washington and "Altius Management." Altius, a Nashville-based company started by Edward J. Polchlepek III (a.k.a. "Ed Nash"), promised in October of 2012 to KickStarter users to create retro-horror-themed, limited-print playing cards. The project was successfully backed on Halloween of 2012. In fact, it exceeded its $15,000 goal by $10,000. But the December 2012 delivery date came and went. Still no cards. By July of Continue Reading
Daliah to Serve as Mentor for Lean Startup Machine Chicago
Daliah will serve as a mentor for a team at Lean Startup Machine Chicago, taking place on June 20-22. Lean Startup Machine is an "intensive three-day workshop which teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products." Screened participants pitch their ideas, attendees organize into teams, and the teams develops hypothetical problems and solutions for the core business. For more information about the event, please click on the link below:
Daliah Saper to Lecture at Mobile Monday Chicago Meetup
Daliah Saper will be a key speaker at the May 19th Mobile Monday Chicago Meetup. The event will be held at Loyola University's Water Tower campus from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Mobile Monday is one of Chicago's biggest technology networking organizations. Daliah will talk about the legal issues affecting software developers. For more information about Mobile Monday Chicago and the May event, click on the link below: https://www.meetup.com/momo-chicago/events/169957972/
Daliah To Speak at The Master’s Conference
On May 28th, Daliah Saper will speak at The Master's Conference for Legal Professionals, which will be held at the Metropolitan Club in downtown Chicago. Daliah, along with a number of other distinguished attorneys, will give a presentation on the legal consequences and costs of social media use entitled, "The Social Media (R)Evolution: How Social Media Content Impacts e-Discovery Risks and Costs." TIME: 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. PLACE: The Metropolitan Club 233 South Wacker Drive, 67th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 For more information about the conference, click on the links below: https://themastersconference.com/ https://themastersconference.com/
The Willis Report interviews Daliah Saper about Vine’s No Porn Policy
On March 7, 2014 Daliah Saper appeared on Fox Business Channel's "The Willis Report" to talk about Vine's new terms of use policy regarding pornography. In the interview, Daliah discusses Twitter's business strategy behind its new "no pornography" policy. She also explains how Twitter and Vine plan to distinguish between permissible "nudity" and prohibited "pornography." Among the types of nudity Vine allows under the new terms of use include: (1) nudity in a documentary context, (2) clothed sexually suggestive dancing, and (3) nudity that is not sexually provocative (including breastfeeding). Determining what is and what is not a violation of Continue Reading
Chris McElwain presents at the 9th Annual Entrepreneurship Conference hosted by Northwestern Law
Saper Law Associate ,Chris McElwain, spoke on a panel last weekend at the 9th Annual Entrepreneurship Law Conference, hosted by Northwestern University School of Law's Entrepreneurship Law Center. The panel, titled "Legal Tips for Starting a Business," discussed some of the most common legal pitfalls new businesses stumble into, from failing to have an agreement in place between the founding partners to neglecting the protection of their intellectual property, and fielded questions from members of Chicago's thriving start-up community on how to make smart legal choices on a budget.
Join Saper Law at Tech Cocktail Mixer & Startup Showcase
On February 6, 2014, Saper Law will once again be sponsoring Tech Cocktail. Saper Law is honored to serve as Tech Cocktail’s legal counsel and will be greeting visitors at its booth. Come by and say hi! TIME (Thursday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm LOCATION 1871, 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza #1212, Chicago, IL 60654 Learn More about this event. ORGANIZER Tech Cocktail - See more at: https://saperlaw.com/events-seminars/#sthash.13POHAjG.dpuf
Saper Law Attorneys Tackle Novel Domain Name Disputes
Daliah Saper will be a featured panelist at the Namescon.com conference next week to speak about the various legal issues related to domain names. In this article, we highlight an interesting domain name dispute that Saper Law attorneys recently successfully litigated. The takeaway for business owners and domain name owners is an important one. Read more below: Whose Domain Name Is It Anyway? Businesses large and small have come to think of their domain name (or names, since many businesses will snatch up dozens if not hundreds of addresses in order to cover their bases) as one of their most valuable Continue Reading