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Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but those who want to ensure theyre in compliance with the Districts laws must obtain them from a private company owned by a foreign conglomerate.
The District is one of several states that assert copyright on their laws, forbidding others from publishing them. Some states cede the rights to for-profit legal publishing companies such as WestLaw, but the D.C. Council has copyrighted them itself, putting anyone who dares make the laws of the land available at risk of a $150,000 fine.
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The Thomson Corp. (Toronto, ON) has agreed to purchase IOB (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Aktuell Arbetstratt (Stockholm, Sweden). No terms for either deal w...
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If there's an information business Reed Elsevier isn't in, it's probably an oversight (or just isn't worth being in). Its operating divisions-Science/Medicine, Legal, Education, and Business-provide premium content critical to those sectors. Conferences, print publishing, abstracting and indexing, electronic distribution, you name it, Reed Elsevier's market share is huge, with the Reed side concentrating on the business community while Elsevier covers science.
The fifth annual EContent 100 - the list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry - is presented, with top contenders in each category featured.
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 3, 1996-- In a move that will substantially strengthen the market position of Matthew Bender & Co., its legal publi...
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... made under this title,"make a critical legal difference. Putting section numbers to the side, w...Technology companies tell us that "automobiles, microwaves, calculators... Copyright Law Revision 126.Publishing-industry representatives argued strenuouslyagainst...
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...A Methodological Suggestion 4. Legality as a Normative Notion B. The Internal Point of Vie... case between French and German companies litigated in the United States (since both do busi... or JURISPRUDENCE, xxiii, 184 (Hackett Publishing Co. 1998). . (7.) The pervasiveness of the concept...
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We are adopting new rules and an amendment to a new form pursuant to Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act relating to . Section 1504 added Section 13(q) to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which requires the Commission to issue rules requiring resource extraction issuers to include in an annual report information relating to any payment made by the issuer, a subsidiary of the issuer, or an entity under the control of the issuer, to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals. Section 13(q) requires a resource extraction issuer to provide information about the type and total amount of such payments made for eac...
... made by oil, natural gas, and mining companies to governments for the purpose of the commercial d... to the Cameroon Petroleum Code, a copy of a legal opinion from Cameroon counsel, and a copy of a leg... law prevents oil companies from publishing data on revenues they pay to the state derived fro...
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Legal issues involving half of the Chinese companies trading on American stock exchanges could leave investors holding securities paper would be worth more as confetti, a Tribune-Review investigation found.
Other investors in Chinese stocks are not much better off after a year of stinging allegations that many of the securities are rife with fraud, abuse and fictional transactions.
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... and Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Companies. With so many decisions being reported, it became ...
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... undertaking, so pharmaceutical companiesmost often use it to promote high-profit brand-name dru... was generated in compliance witha legal mandate, the State argues, and so could be conside...v. UnitedReporting Publishing Corp., 528 U. S. 32 (1999), where theCourt held th...