On January 18, 2012, the tech community in Silicon Valley gathered in front of San Francisco’s City Hall to protest the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) bills being considered by Congress and the House of Representatives. PIPA was approved by a senate committee and is now pending before Read more about PAABA Report: The SOPA/PIPA Protest[…]
Happy 2012! The quaint days of the Y2K bug are firmly behind us—not only have we actually made it to the new millennium, we have soundly surpassed the first decade mark. We once might have associated 2012 with flying cars and a clear universal vision but now, across the threshold of “the Future” we cross Read more about PAABA President’s Address – January 2012[…]
This holiday season, PAABA members disperse into the four corners of the world and the by-product, for a while anyway, is frayed family nerves from your failing to put phones/lap tops/tablets aka “that thing” down for one moment. Unbeknownst to them, you reduced technology use by fifty percent the moment you disembarked. Proof: As they Read more about PAABA President’s Address – December 2011[…]
Ganka Hadjipetrova, Esq. A growing number of small businesses are being unpleasantly surprised with letters from performing rights organizations, such as the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), with indirect or direct threats of copyright infringement. The performing rights organizations, or PROs, which manage musical copyrights on behalf Read more about When Should a Small Business Pay ASCAP or BMI?[…]
The Palo Alto Area Bar Association (PAABA) holds service to the community as a core value. In this spirit, PAABA held a book drive to benefit the San Mateo County Law Library in Redwood City. The Law Library provides FREE access for all to legal information and resources, including treatises, law reviews, and legal reference Read more about PAABA Book Drive for San Mateo County Law Library a Success[…]
The Palo Alto Area Bar Association developed out of a need for community. The meetings started out small, as lunches between fellow practitioners and neighbors. It was the early 1930s, before the concept of “power lunches” and the proliferation of books on networking. Commutes wound through orchards and along marshlands. Luncheon debates of the day probably concerned the nation’s Read more about Welcome to PAABA: Introduction[…]