Law firms are building A.I. expertise as regulation looms

How Awful actors Can Endanger a COVID vaccine–and Just How This May be Averted

Dozens of businesses have spent the previous weeks working to create a productive approach to prevent COVID-19–and mercifully, we now ’re beginning to find some very promising outcomes. With final stages of testing and trials we have to turn our consideration to another phase and think about the concept of a vaccine-related cyberattack. It is […]

Why investors jumped on board the SPAC ‘gravy train’

The pandemic all but shut down IPO activity in March, and for a while it seemed like companies would press pause on going public. But nine months later, the public markets are busier than ever—largely thanks to special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. “Everybody jumped on board this gravy train,” Lise Buyer, founder and managing […]

Great Gatsby, Agatha Christie and more: Famous works from 1925 enter public domain

The start of a new year means the end of copyright protection for a variety of books, songs and movies—and a bonanza of free titles for pop-culture fans. For 2021, these will include works by novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, actor Buster Keaton, composer Irving Berlin and mystery master Agatha Christie. These are […]