Category: Information technology

Will legal ed and the practice of law pivot to meet the #neweconomy & #futureofwork?

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“Lawyers aren’t going away. But the way we work is changing.”

Today’s client and, more importantly tomorrow’s client, demands that lawyers keep pace with the #futureofwork in the #neweconomy. Here’s where I think we are and where we HAVE to go.

How do you foresee this directly impacting the legal industry?

Asked by interviewer Adam Keirstead

Dean Evans

Well, there’s a really interesting move in the legal industry to prepare lawyers to have conversations with technologists in the IT department and those who are coding to leverage the existing master contracts that we have in order to figure out ways that we can automate certain functions.

Essentially, there are master agreements underneath that lawyers do, and there’s coding the coders and IT specialists do. They need to be able to talk to each other. This is an area that’s ripe for innovation on the law side.

Lawyers won’t go away, but the way that lawyers are interacting with business people, and in terms of our advice and how we work with them is going to certainly change!

Read the full transcript and listen to the original podcast with Dean Tonya M. Evans here.

tune into the Tech Intersect Podcast with Tonya M. Evans

Tech Intersect #150: Dr. Hans Boateng on The Future of Banking, Generational Wealth, and Investment Literacy – Tech Intersect™ with Prof Tonya M. Evans

The future of banking and financial assets is digital. By educating yourself now, you’ll be able to seize opportunities to build generational wealth and secure a more stable financial future. Dr. Han Boateng joined me to talk about why getting in on digital currencies now is akin to buying real estate in the 1950s. This week, episode 150 of the Tech Intersect™ Podcast is about the future of banking, generational wealth, and investment literacy! POWERED BY ADVANTAGE EVANS™ ACADEMY Register now for this free opportunity to embrace the new digital economy and future of wealth, and do so safely, legally and confidently. Register now at https://advantageevans.com/masterclass. Dr. Hans Boateng, also known as The Investing Tutor, is on a mission to simplify investing and make it easy to understand. When he arrived in the US from his home country of Ghana, he recognized the lack of investment literacy in immigrant and minority households. This fueled his passion for teaching others how to build wealth. Dr. Hans is an accomplished professional with a wealth of knowledge and experience in finance and investing, holding an MBA with a path of distinction and a doctorate degree.Some of the talking points Dr. Hans and I go over in this episode include:Having access to the right financial information so people can position themselves for success.The current model of employment, exchanging time for money, isn’t enough to build wealth.How investing in digital assets compares to investing in real estate in the 1950s.Recommendations for what percentage of your assets to hold in crypto given your risk tolerance.Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to follow, rate, and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!CONNECT WITH DR. HANS:InstagramTwitterWebsiteGenWealth+ programCONNECT WITH TONYA EVANS:Questions and requests: hello@techintersectpodcast.com Follow: Twitter @AtTechIntersect | Instagram @TechIntersect Web: Tech Intersect Podcast  Connect for exclusive content: http://eepurl.com/gKqDyP Rapternal Music (Regulate and The Rabbit Hole) by Notty Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Produced by Galati Media, LLC.Regulate & The Rabbit Hole by Notty Prod licensed via Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Produced by Tonya M. Evans for Advantage Evans, LLC
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  2. Tech Intersect #149: Digital Assets, FinTech, and Inclusion: Reclaiming My Congressional Testimony Time
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Maybe you, like Bruce Willis, think you own your iTunes library … think again!

Posted on by TME in Copyright, entertainment law, Information technology, Intellectual Property, Internet, Media, Music, Piracy

Source: CNN.com

Today in my first year Property class I plan to discuss how possession of some “thing” is evidence of ownership but possession does not equal ownership in all cases. Possession creates a rebuttable presumption. And Apple’s fine print may just win over an individual’s claims to own music purchased via iTunes. Is that a license or a transfer of title to the music? That’s what Bruce Willis wants to know. Maybe you do too!

A lawfully acquired physical copy, of course, is treated differently. But electronic goods pose challenging questions in the 21st century to what constitutes “ownership” of a lawfully acquired electronic file. Willis’s fight against Apple to pass on ownership of his music collection to his children is case-in-point:

“Bruce Willis has vanquished terrorists, basement rapists and the defenses of Cybill Shepherd. But in his three decades in Hollywood he may not have faced as daunting an opponent as Apple. According to an unconfirmed report in a British publication, Willis wants to bequeath his extensive iTunes music collection to his daughters — something that’s not permitted under the current iTunes terms.”

Read the full article about Bruce Willis and Apple at CNN.com

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Google goes from “info wants to be free” to “misuse of info can cost you”!

Posted on by TME in Copyright, DMCA, Information technology, Intellectual Property, Internet, Media, Piracy

Credit: icontexto

“Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site,” said Google SVP of engineering Amit Singhal in a blog post. He went on to say, “Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results.”

Perhaps the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and its safe harbor provisions are impacting Google’s policies in more ways than believed possible early on given the company’s previous stance on access to copyrighted information.

Source: InformationWeek.com “Google Joins Copyright Police” August 13, 2012