Webinar #5

Learn Wherever Your Meetings Take You
60 minutes

"Web 2.0: Legal Issues Affecting Emerging Technology"

Presented by Barbara F. Dunn, Esq.

The next evolution of the Internet is here! With emerging technologies such as social networking, blog postings, and the like—along with virtual meetings and trade shows, are you doing everything you can to protect your organization against liability? Join attorney Barbara Dunn as she walks through a variety of examples and provides insight on how to manage liability through user agreements, blog policies, disclaimers, indemnification, and insurance.

Learning outcomes include:

• identifying emerging areas of technology such as blog and virtual meetings;
• learning basics of copyrights, trademarks, and patents and how they apply to internet legal issues; and
• applying methods of managing liability—such as user agreements, blog policies, indemnification, and insurance.

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About the Presenter

Barbara F. Dunn, Esq.
Attorney and Partner
Howe & Hutton, Ltd.

Barbara works with many individuals and organizations in the meetings industry—including corporate and independent planners, as well as suppliers to the industry. She has written numerous articles on a wide range of legal issues and is a frequent speaker for MPI and its chapters, the MPI Foundation's Platinum Series programs, SGMP, PCMA, HSMAI, ASAE and its affiliated societies, and other groups in the meetings, travel, and hospitality industries. She was the 2005-2006 chair of the ASAE Legal Section Council—the first woman to serve in such a leadership role. She is also a member of the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys. Barbara received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her Juris Doctorate degree from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago where she was a member of the editorial board of the John Marshall Law Review.

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