Corruption, Crime, and Compliance - A Deep Dive into the Oracle FCPA SEC Settlement
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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Andy Warhol's Prince Prints: Not Fair Use!? (Part Two)
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Andy Warhol's Prince Prints: Not Fair Use!? (Part Two)
Upon hearing the word "transformer," thoughts of change and adaptability often come to mind, sometimes evoking images of those iconic shape-shifting robots. However, when it comes to artificial intelligence, the word...more
The Delaware courts have issued several noteworthy decisions in recent weeks that should have an impact on practice and stockholder litigation. Below is a brief summary of these decisions, which involved the following...more
In a case of first impression, the Court of Chancery held recently that officers, like directors, owe their companies a duty of oversight, although the scope of that will vary with their responsibilities. Two other Chancery...more
The mere potential for a prominent, highly respected officer, director and minority holder to influence a board’s decision to approve a deal where the minority holder sits on both sides is insufficient to confer controller...more
The United States Supreme Court recently issued its first opinion in the realm of copyright since its 2021 decision in Google v. Oracle, this time focusing not on software and source code, but on pop art and the publishing...more
The Compliance Podcast Network welcomes the re-launching of the new Corruption, Crime, and Compliance podcast, where Michael Volkov takes a deep dive into the Oracle case and provides valuable lessons for managing third-party...more
In this episode, I take on a solo pod to consider the Oracle FCPA enforcement action brought by the SEC. Key areas on this podcast are background facts, same facts in the same country? The failure of a paper program, the need...more
Oracle’s SEC settlement for $23 million underscores the power of the FCPA provisions mandating effective internal controls and accurate books and records. As everyone knows, these provisions can be applied to a wide-range of...more
Oracle Corporation settled its second FCPA case in ten years. Oracle agreed to pay $23 million to resolve allegations that its subsidiaries in Turkey, India and the United Arab Emirates maintained slush funds to bribe...more
CYBERSECURITY - Cyber-Attack Disrupts Public Services in Fremont County, Colorado - Government offices and public services in Fremont County, Colorado, have been disrupted since August 17, 2022, due to a “cybersecurity...more
A new class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in California against Oracle America, Inc., alleging that it has been invading consumers’ privacy by using tracking technologies to build “digital dossiers” on individual...more
On June 17, 2022, TikTok Inc. (“TikTok”) reportedly completed the migration of its U.S. users’ information to servers at Oracle Corporation (“Oracle”) in a move that bars access by Chinese parent company ByteDance. ...more
During the first seven months of the Biden Administration, there have been several developments in the area of federal contractor affirmative action. As most contractors know, three federal contractor affirmative action...more
Software vendors and purchasers won an important victory in a decision handed down by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) this May. The SJC affirmed vendors can use the normal abatement process to apportion sales...more
A recent Supreme Court decision has finally put an end to the longstanding fight between Oracle and Google concerning Google’s use of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The Supreme Court’s...more
After more than a decade of litigation that included multiple trials and appeals, the Supreme Court of the United States finally put an end to the copyright infringement case Oracle brought against Google. The case was about...more
In this week's podcast of The Briefing from the IP Law Blog, attorneys Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v...more
In this week's episode of the Briefing from the IP Law Blog, Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v Goldsmith)....more
In Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., the Supreme Court, in a 6–2 decision2 written by Justice Breyer, held that Google’s copying of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) naming convention was a fair use as a...more
The rash of shareholder derivative actions alleging violations of fiduciary duties tied to companies’ diversity measures are continuing to take a beating in the Northern District of California. We previously posted about the...more
The Supreme Judicial Court ("SJC") issued its highly-anticipated decision in Oracle USA, Inc. et al v. Commissioner of Revenue, dkt. no. SJC-13013, this past Friday, May 21, 2021, finding that Massachusetts taxpayers have a...more
On April 5, 2021, after 10 years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court published its decision in the much-watched Google v. Oracle dispute. The Court held that use of certain “declaring code” from the Java API in the Android...more
In a non-precedential Order issued by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—on remand from the US Supreme Court’s April 2021 decision upholding Google’s fair use defense to Oracle’s copyright infringement claim—the...more
The Court cleared Google of copyright infringement in terminating a 16-year long dispute as to whether Google’s Android mobile platform had infringed Oracle’s Java programming language’s copyright. However, the Court did not...more
In a decision last month, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals continued its recent trend of narrowing the fair use defense in copyright cases. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith involved a...more