Litigation attorney Alexander Esteban, Bell Rosquete Reyes Esteban, talks with Law.com about his recent appellate win. “From a legal standpoint, if you look at the definition of a computer, there was a particular reading … that one could say that a cloud-based server would not fall within the definition of a computer,” Esteban said. “But ultimately the Eleventh Circuit decided here that it did.” https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2023/02/07/up-in-the-air-jurisdiction-question-arises-over-property-on-cloud-based-internet-server/

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Fort Lauderdale Labor & Employment attorneys Andrew Gordon and Lauren Swanson have written an article for the Daily Business Review about the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule on banning Noncompete agreements and the impact it will have on Florida employers. https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2023/02/02/ftcs-proposed-rule-banning-noncompetes-how-the-rule-if-enacted-will-impact-fla-employers/

According to the Daily Business Review, Florida’s ongoing population boom, partnered with a steady rise in creative activity, is spurring a rise in intellectual property litigation in the state’s courts.

Take the two lawyers, one based in Miami and another in Memphis, who have teamed up to represent a client suing Billboard-topping artist DaBaby for stealing music to make his hit song “ROCKSTAR.”

Bradley Eiseman, an entertainment and litigation attorney based in Memphis, and William Trueba, an intellectual property attorney at Miami-based Trueba & Suarez, say that work within their spheres is on the rise because of digitization. And Trueba is seeing an uptick of those cases being filed in his home state. In terms of music, copyright cases across the nation are generally more common because music is more widely available online, Eiseman said. Because of hip-hop music’s heavy reliance on samples, a lot of artists who may not fully understand how copyright works are increasingly using music for their own work without permission. https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2023/01/17/population-growth-music-boom-make-florida-a-hotbed-for-ip-litigation/