It’s a fun Super Bowl weekend! So this video blog talks about trademarks for the Super Bowl, the NFL, and teams. Enjoy ..read more

The “Law & Business” podcast has returned. Once again, we are with Heather Abissi, our co-host, from Abissi Law. We discuss domain names: How domain names are property; How domain names relate to trademark law; In which ways a person or business can challenge the validity of a domain name registration; Arbitration or Federal Court? What happens when the federal government seizes your domain name? It’s a fun conversation! Don’t forget to subscribe and rate us 5 stars ..read more

The “Law and Business” podcast is BACK. And Anthony is joined by his new co-host, Heather Abissi. Heather M. Abissi, an attorney beginning her 15th year of practice, having served as an Executive Assistant District Attorney, Criminal Defense Attorney, Civil Rights Attorney, Tort Attorney, Family Law Attorney, Matrimonial Attorney, and Senior Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, and Corporate Outside Counsel, has a practice focused on legal writing, editing, contract negotiation, oral argument, trial support and strategy. The goal of her practice is to improve the work-l ..read more

Coming aboard the “Law & Business” Podcast is Polina Chtchelok. Polina is an Australian lawyer and engineer. She started her career in the energy sector, where after having lived in 5 different countries and working on various investments and projects, she saw a business opportunity due to lack of specific legal services and she moved from working in-house to creating her own niche market law firm in a controversial and challenging business environment of Bolivia in South America. After completing Executive MBA from HEC Paris with specialization in finance end entrepreneurship her focus no ..read more

It’s always fun when your friends drop in for a podcast episode. My guest this time is my friend, the talented and lovely Andromeda Turre. Andromeda is a jazz singer whose latest project is called Growing up Jazz, a series about the influence of jazz on the American soul that runs parallel to her life story as the daughter of two jazz musicians. Andromeda had some copyright questions. These questions came from the musician’s perspective, especially as we discussed the need for a copyright registration in the music and a need for a copyright registration in the sound recording (aka “sync licens ..read more

Episode 13 of the "Law & Business" podcast welcomes Oz Sultan again. Oz Sultan In this episode, Oz and Anthony talk about three internet policy thoughts. Domain Name Issues Management and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Economic Rationals for Enforcement Also - was .sucks a good idea or a bad idea and can registering a .sucks domain name bring legal action? Here is a lightly-edited transcript of the podcast episode: Anthony Verna: So welcome again to the Law and Business podcast. I'm here again with Oz Sultan. And how you doing? Oz Sultan: Hello. Good to be catching up. Anthony Verna ..read more

In Episode 12 - Comic Books, Geek Life, and Trademark & Copyright Law, Jim Cushing joins Anthony Verna to talk about comic books, some history of comic books (Jim and Anthony let their geek sides out), and the intellectual property issues of comic books. James Cushing, Esq. A lightly-edited transcript of the podcast episode appears below: Anthony Verna: Welcome to the Law and Business podcast. I'm here with Jim Cushing. How are you doing, Jim? Jim Cushing: Hi, Anthony. Doing well, thanks. How are you? Anthony Verna:  doing great. Thank you. Tell everybody how to find you again. P ..read more

Anthony Verna and Daron Jenkins talk about film, entrepreneurship and creating a business, and intellectual property issues. Daron Jenkins Topics included: Dreaming without money Business plans Originality Expressions of ideas/Copyright law Protection of expressions of ideas Importance of contracts in guiding relationships in business Work-for-hire agreements The importance of doing due diligence Music copyright litigation issues Film copyright litigation issues Here is a lightly-edited transcript of the podcast episode: Anthony Verna: Thank you for listening to the Law and Business podcast. I ..read more

Oz Sultan joins the "Law & Business" podcast to speak with Anthony Verna about social media and legal issues. Oz Sultan How do businesses use social media?  What is the changing face of social media?  How do business interact with customers and potential customers in social media?  What are the legal issues that revolve around social media in today's world? Here is a lightly-edited transcript of the podcast: Anthony: Welcome to the Law & Business Podcast. Oz Sultan: Thank you. Anthony: I'm, I'm here with Oz. I will let you plug away. Oz: Sure. I am Oz Sultan, I am a digi ..read more

Episode 9: Three Ways in Which Business Hurt Themselves in Online Marketing In this episode, I speak with Darcy Knapp, who is an Search Engine Optimization Expert and consultant, about the issues that businesses have in marketing themselves online, especially in search engine optimization. One issue that we touch on is using competitor's trademarks for metadata, which is a bad idea.  From a practical standpoint, Darcy points out the difficulty in lowering online marketing prices if a business uses competitors' trademarks.  From a legal standpoint, the issue is that using competitors ..read more