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Do you maintain an online presence as part of your professional and business life? Whether you blog, podcast, operate a Web site, publish an e-mail newsletter, or offer original content on a social networking site, you should know how to stay legal online and how to protect your online interests. In this presentation, attorney and author Joy R. Butler will discuss legal issues that arise during the establishment and maintenance of your online presence including—

• How to protect your original content and your domain name
• How and when you can use other people's materials online
• What your legal obligations are to your online visitors (e.g., privacy, spam, and so forth)

Speaker: Attorney Joy R. Butler is an attorney with a private practice focusing on entertainment, intellectual property, and business law. A frequent speaker and writer on entertainment and business issues, Joy has previously presented for our CPCUG Entrepreneurs and Consultants SIG on "Intellectual Property and Licensing" and on "Forming Joint Ventures and Strategic Relationships."

Joy is the author of The Cyber Citizen's Guide Through the Legal Jungle: Internet Law for Your Professional Online Presence (forthcoming) and The Permission Seeker's Guide Through the Legal Jungle: Clearing Copyrights, Trademarks and Other Rights for Your Entertainment and Media Productions. Joy blogs about media and intellectual property law issues at http://www.GuideThroughtheLegalJungleblog.com and about business law issues at http://www.businesstransactionsblog.com. Joy is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College.

For additional information on Joy Butler's law firm practice, visit http://www.joybutler.com/. For information on her books, visit http://www.GuideThroughtheLegalJungle.com.

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Free and open to all 

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open noon Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

Join us! 

Next Meeting: 
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Topic: To Be Announced

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