A recent survey found that that a common culprit of intellectual property or trade secret theft may be an individual that a company knows quite well: one of its own former employees. The Mountain View, California-based global security software company Symantec said in a recent press release that half of its employees who left their jobs in
In a 1986 interview with Fortune magazine, investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet said that the “perfect amount” of money for parents to leave their children is “enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.” Before musician Ray Charles died in 2004, the singer gathered most
In an April 2011 Associated Press video, University of Southern California intellectual property law expert Jack Lerner summarizes some of the issues in a long-running dispute between rival toy makers Mattel, Inc. and MGA Entertainment, Inc. over the billion-dollar Bratz doll line. Mattel first filed a lawsuit in 2004, alleging that the designer of the toys, Carter
In a video interview with Roy Abramsohn, the actor who stars in the horror fantasy film “Escape From Tomorrow,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the actor discusses copyright material. Abramsohn plays a father going insane at Walt Disney World, and the movie is garnering attention because writer and director Randy Moore filmed on
A timeless video exists online showing a 93-yard punt return for a touchdown by the University of Michigan’s Desmond Howard in a 1991 game against Ohio State. In the end zone, Howard struck a pose similar to the Heisman Trophy, the award annually given to the most outstanding player in college football. Howard indeed went
A music video exists for the 2010 song “Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza” by Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller. The track appeared on Miller’s mixtape K.I.D.S., which Rolling Stone said “became a breakout Internet hit for the then-rising rapper.” However, hip hop artist and producer Lord Finesse claimed that “Kool Aid” used beats from his own 1995
The technology news and information website Ars Technica reported that Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) filed a lawsuit against four former employees it alleges “collectively downloaded over 100,000 files onto external hard drives in the six months before leaving” to join competing graphics chip maker Nvidia. The company also alleges that the
In late 2012, networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. launched a marketing and branding campaign with print, television and web advertisements featuring the tagline “Tomorrow Starts Here.” As the technology news website All Things Digital noted, the campaign came after a year of “gut-wrenching round of layoffs” that involved the company cutting 6,500 jobs and eliminating
Shortly after Christmas, Sony Music released a compilation of Bob Dylan recordings that the New York Times reported “is bound to become one of his most collectible albums.” Sony produced only about 100 copies of “The 50th Anniversary Collection,” a four-CD set of previously unreleased studio outtakes and live recordings from 1962 and 1963. Copies
Sylvester Stallone directed, co-wrote and starred in “The Expendables,” a 2010 action movie that grossed over $100 million in the United States and more than $270 million worldwide. It led to 2012 sequel that earned even more money than the original, and a third “Expendables” film is currently in development. Corporate speechwriter Marcus Webb, however,
