http://arborlaw.com/blog for entrepreneurs and small business — a legal blog from Arborlaw Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:25:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting article from MarketingProfs.com. It’s of course essential to have an elevator pitch: every startup and guerilla marketing professional knows that.Doug Stern points out that the essence of networking is people and people skills, and that most people want to connect on a social level first — after they know ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/the-myth-of-the-elevator-speech/ A package of bills (with broad bipartisan support) was under consideration Tuesday in the Michigan Capitol which will provide business tax incentives to film producers, video game developers, and other entertainment based ventures. The key component of the legislation introduced last week is a 40% business tax break for firms ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/michigan-proposes-40-tax-break-for-state-based-film-businesses-other-tax-breaks-for-entertainment-interactive-ventures/ The New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index dropped to 57.2, down from a revised 62.8 in April. Economists surveyed by Thomson Financial/IFR had expected a reading of 60. The May reading marks the fifth straight month of decline and is the lowest since the index registered ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/consumer-confidence/ The art L.111-1 of the IP Code gives every author of a work of the spirit of a RIGHT PROPERTY INCORPORELLE, exclusive and against all this right arises solely because of the creation of the work, without AUCUNE FORMALITE OF DEPOSIT or registration is required (With the exception, however, legal ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/copyright-and-related-rights/ The law of 13 July 1978 on patents formally exclude the patentability of COMPUTERS for PROGRAMMES in Article 6, but the case was quickly recognized that a patent application which one or more claims included in the steps of a process, an algorithm or even a genuine software, is regarded ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/computer-software-law/ Fraud - Hackers, crakers, spam and other pirates There are several kinds of fraud, whose goals are different, but equally damaging consequences. The first is a kind of games, challenge for small (or grandparents) of the computer geniuses who "enter" in the systems and leave a trace of their passage, and often ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/the-fraud/ The network INTERNET, originally reserved for the military communications networks USA and a little later at the universities, was opened to the public in 1994 and, to this day (March 2002), it must rely more than six hundred million people in more than a hundred countries. The official figures were 377 ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/the-internet-and-the-right/ At the root of Islam, there were several schools of Islamic law (madhhab). These were known by their geographical location. There were for example, school Kufa (Iraq), Medina (Saudi Arabia), the school of Basra (Iraq) or that of Mecca (Saudi Arabia). But little by little, some teachers have been imposed ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/the-schools-of-islamic-law-madhhab/ The Icann, the body responsible for domain names on the net, decided after his 32nd international meeting (which ran from June 23 to 27), to extend the possibilities of filing names domain. This liberalization of domain names aims to relieve the canvas billions of domain names ending with ". Com. ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/towards-the-liberalization-of-domain-names-from-1-january-2009/ The position of Muslims face the death penalty can be understood only in their conception of law. 1) Design Muslim law Unlike the Roman conception that the law is "what the people prescribed and establishes" (Lex is quod populus iubet atque constituit), to quote the famous expression of the jurist Gaius (dv ... http://arborlaw.com/blog/the-death-penalty-in-classical-islamic-law/