Federal law and the laws of almost every state, including the State of Michigan, prohibit, with few exceptions, the operation of a “lottery” as a form of gambling.  …read more

Randy Safford in my office pointed me to this article on MLive.com about Michigan Film Financing, LLC, the only Michigan-based company working with producers and out-of-state lenders to facilitate film financing while maximizing state film incentives.  MFF is affiliated with S3 Entertainment in Ferndale, MI.  You can check out their website here.

–Matt

Last week I wrote about the controversy surrounding Google Street View and right of privacy concerns.  The original post can be read here.  A friend now points me to this article about a group of Japanese lawyers and professors, calling themselves Campaign Against Surveillance Society, who have asked Google to stop providing street-level, photographic views of Japanese cities, saying they “deeply violate[] a basic right that humans have.”

The article makes no mention of Google’s efforts to address right of privacy concerns by blurring faces and removing offensive or sensitive images.  Assuming Google has implemented these measures in Japan, it’s hard to understand this group’s specific concerns.  Certainly, a “surveillance society” is offensive to many people, including …read more

The subject of copyright has become increasingly complex and confusing as technology has advanced over the past quarter century, and the law has attempted to keep up.  Today, …read more

Under Michigan law, the sale of a business along with its accompanying good will gives rise to an implied covenant precluding the seller from soliciting his old customers.  …read more