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Social Networking: to monitor or not to monitor In recent months, hardly a day has passed by without the name of a social networking site appearing in major headlines. More	RIAA campus letters: On shaky legal ground? The last thing parents want with their child's college tuition bill is a hefty cash demand over music piracy. But as recent reports indicate, the most important institution in a student's young life is now being used as a lever by the RIAA to extort a settlement. This raises troubling legal issues. More
The deferred compensation time bomb When Enron imploded, everything it had done was held suspect, and one of those things was to permit employees to avoid current taxation by deferring compensation to future taxable years. More	YouTube litigation: Google's tough DMCA tests Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against Google and YouTube triggered class actions in New York and Tennessee by copyright owners representing a wide array of rightholders, from Black Eyed Peas to Tim McGraw to the English Premier soccer league. More

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