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I want to thank our loyal readers who use ever-increasingly sophisticated search technology to find answers to Useless But Compelling Facts. If you are a winner, you will get a prize—I promise! To those who actually read the articles and send us work—thank you. I promise you high-quality, responsive, knowledgeable legal support—when and where you need it.

To clients, colleagues, prospects, friends—all who have enriched my life and helped me continue to learn—thank you for a challenging and interesting 2008. May the new year bring us health, success, new challenges and more fun. A 2009, filled with wonder and excitement. Let us have the patience to deal with what we cannot change, and let’s resist the temptation to think there is little we can change. Let us know tolerance to accept others who may be different, and wisdom to learn from them—there is both beauty and strength in diversity. Thank you.

Want to know why gift card laws are such a maze? Check out the March 2008 issue of Credit Union Business (Vol. 3, Issue 3), in which nationally published freelance writer and attorney Ursula Furi-Perry reports on her interview with Legal Bytes editor, Joe Rosenbaum, in a feature article, “Plastic Law: What Executives Must Know.” Want to know more about what matters? Head to
rimonlaw.com or email me.

Legal Bytes editor Joe Rosenbaum has authored a chapter in a new book, Inside the Minds: Managing Advertising & Marketing Legal Issues, published by Aspatore Publishing. The chapter is entitled “The Tension Between Advertising & Privacy: Whose Information Is It (Déjà vu)?” The text looks back at a Jurimetrics Law Journal article he authored 10 years ago entitled “Privacy on the Internet: Whose Information Is It Anyway?” and examines how the evolution of web-based and mobile advertising continue to have a profound effect on our notions of privacy in the digital world.

A half-day workshop, Protecting Personal Information: Best Practices for Business, co-hosted by the California Office of Privacy and the FTC, will take place Aug. 13 in Los Angeles. It is designed to show businesses how to protect the privacy of employees and consumers and the security of personal information. The workshop will share best practices for developing a data security program and for responding to data breaches.

Joseph I. Rosenbaum presented Marketing to Children in Virtual Worlds: At Play or As Prey? at the Virtual Worlds Conference in New York—you can download a copy from the FTP site. Joe also spoke about Mobile Mayhem: Marketing and Contextual Advertising versus Privacy, at the 40th International Advertising Association Conference in Washington, D.C.

Joseph I. Rosenbaum will be speaking at the Virtual Worlds Conference in New York (April 3–4) on the subject of Marketing to Children in Virtual Worlds: At Play or As Prey? exploring the emerging use of virtual worlds to advertise and market, exploit, educate and entertain children. Joe will also be a panelist at the 40th International Advertising Association Conference in Washington, D.C. April 7 on the subject of Mobile Mayhem.

Need I say more? Go Blue!

Rimon’s Advertising Technology & Media Law practice is global and now we have colleagues in Hong Kong and Beijing. If you need us anywhere in this world, any digital domains (Hi David) or virtual ones, we are only a click away. Contact me, or my colleagues, Douglas J. Wood, or Stephen S. Edwards.

Douglas J. Wood is again co-chairing the Business & Legal Affairs Conference of the Association of National Advertisers, to be held in New York, Feb. 12–13. If you haven’t signed up, you should.