Location: 14 Vesey Street, 2nd Floor Auditorium

Course ID: C061009

Number of Sessions: 1

Credits: 3 MCLE Credits
3 MCLE Credits: 1 Ethics; 2 Skills; Transitional and Non-transitional

Course Description:

Today more and more people are joining at least one social networking site. Young adults on MySpace and Facebook or business professionals on LinkedIn, people are taking advantage of these new online meeting spaces to make acquaintances, communicate and expand business opportunities. Social networking sites enable users to publish content. Publishing content can create a number of legal issues, such as defamation or copyright infringement. What legal responsibility should users or vendors have for content? What other legal responsibility flows from the use of social networking data by employers, advertisers/marketing and government agencies?

• This interactive program uses technology, statutes and case law to explore issues involving social networking as it pertains to privacy, property rights as well as vendor and user legal liability
  
• The pane; will focus on emerging technology and software that may be used to extend the reach of social networks and add some new legal issues to the mix, as well as new concepts, such as behavioral marketing, which will be explored.

Faculty:
Joseph J. Bambara, Azure Media, Inc.; Stephen Kline, Esq., Former General Counsel of Xanga.com Inc.; Jarno Vanto , Esq., Vanto Law PLLC; Michael M. Wechsler, The Law Network, LLC

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