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E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 31, 2008 2008-04-04 17:45:44 Surprise, surprise: A recent article suggests that children are using social networking sites designed for adults. "Research into internet use has found that, among children with internet access, more than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds claimed to have a profile page on a social networking website. This is despite... Read more:March
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 17, 2008 2008-03-21 13:00:00 We thought JuicyCampus might be the next Internet gossip site to suffer from unwanted legal scrutiny and it turns out we were right: New Jersey law enforcement officials have been investigating JuicyCampus for at least a month and claim that the site violates the state's Consumer Fraud Act. (Links: Gossip... Read more:March
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 10, 2008 2008-03-16 15:40:31 Google has purchased Doubleclick. (Link: Google closes $3.1 billion DoubleClick acquisition at SilliconValley.com) By year's end, TiVo will deliver YouTube content to users' televisions. (Link: TiVo, YouTube will deliver videos to DVR users' TVs at SilliconValley.com) E-Commerce Law Briefs is a weekly feature appearing each Friday afternoon on E-Commerce Law.... Read more:March
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of April 7, 2008 2008-04-11 13:00:00 Early this week, stock market investors were emboldened by news of several potential corporate deals in the works. However, one of those potential deals is still very uncertain - Yahoo (YHOO) again rejected Microsoft's (MSFT) $44.6 billion bid to purchase the company. Microsoft has give Yahoo a three week deadline... Read more:April
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of April 14, 2008 2008-04-18 13:00:00 The New York state legislature has passed a law which will require online retailers to collect sales tax on items shipped to New York. The so-called "Amazon Tax" might lead other states to enact similar measures, though some lawmakers believe such laws would not hold up in court. Representatives of... Read more:April
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of April 14, 2008 2008-04-18 13:00:00 The New York state legislature has passed a law which will require online retailers to collect sales tax on items shipped to New York. The so-called "Amazon Tax" might lead other states to enact similar measures, though some lawmakers believe such laws would not hold up in court. Representatives of... Read more:April
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of April 7, 2008 2008-04-11 13:00:00 Early this week, stock market investors were emboldened by news of several potential corporate deals in the works. However, one of those potential deals is still very uncertain - Yahoo (YHOO) again rejected Microsoft's (MSFT) $44.6 billion bid to purchase the company. Microsoft has give Yahoo a three week deadline... Read more:April
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 31, 2008 2008-04-04 17:45:44 Surprise, surprise: A recent article suggests that children are using social networking sites designed for adults. "Research into internet use has found that, among children with internet access, more than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds claimed to have a profile page on a social networking website. This is despite... Read more:March
Federal Court Upholds YouTube Terms of Use 2008-04-20 10:31:03 On April 15, 2008, the United States District Court
for the Western District of Washington dismissed a lawsuit filed by a YouTube
user in the wrong venue. In Bowen v. YouTube, Inc., 2008 WL 1757578 (W.D. Wash. 2008), the Court enforced YouTube's Terms
of Use which require that all suits... Read more:Federal
Defending a Criminal Case in a Cyber World 2008-04-23 08:51:55 Last night, I had the pleasure of speaking at a dinner meeting of the Maryland Criminal
Defense Attorneys Association (MCDAA). The topic was "Defending a Criminal Case in a CyberWorld
" and I promised the group I would post the outline of my presentation here today. If you attended the...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of April 21, 2008 2008-04-25 13:00:00 Apparantly, we're about to reach the end of the Internet. Accordingly to AT&T, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. (Link: AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 at CNET News) Sixteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, "Web sites... Read more:April
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of April 28, 2008 2008-05-04 19:18:10 MySpace has obtained a default judgment against "spam king" Sanford Wallace. Wallace had failed to respond to written discovery or sit for a deposition. "'It is...a defendant's responsibility to respond to discovery, obey court orders, and avoid dilatory tactics," the court wrote in its order. "Taking all of the above... Read more:April
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of May 5, 2008 2008-05-12 10:37:54 It looks like Microsoft won't be buying Yahoo afterall. (Link: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo deal at SilliconValley.com) The six major Hollywood movie studios have won a $111 million judgment against TorrentSpy.com. "The judgment, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, fined the operators of the Web site,...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of May 12, 2008 2008-05-19 08:20:34 We've changed the format for our weekly E-Commerce Law briefs. Feel free to let us know what you think about the change. eBay says that it is not considering forcing U.S. users to use PayPal, its online payment system. The company's PayPal-only plan for Australia had created concern among some...
Happy Memorial Day 2008-05-24 19:58:15 Due to the Memorial
Day holiday, we won't be posting E-Commerce Law Briefs this week. E-Commerce Law Briefs will return on Friday, May 30, 2008. Read more:Happy
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of May 26, 2008 2008-06-01 09:40:06 Microsoft's new strategy for competing with Google includes attempting to close a search advertising deal with Yahoo and offering users cashback rewards. The "Live Search Cashback" service permits users of Microsoft's Live Search to purchase certain products online with a cash refund. "The cash-back approach could produce revenue, said Anand...
E-Commerce Law Will Host the Independence Day Edition of Blawg Review 2008-06-06 07:00:00 We've hosted Blawg Review twice (Blawg Review #103 and Blawg Review #140) and enjoyed it so much that we asked to host this year's Independence
Day edition, which will be posted on July 7, 2008. After considering a number of possible themes, we've settled on presenting a post enumerating "50... Read more:Edition
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of June 2, 2008 2008-06-09 08:53:26 Privacy groups complain that Google's privacy policy is not posted "conspicuously" enough to comply with California law. "The California law in question requires commercial Web sites that collect personal information about their users to conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Web site.' It defines the action conspicuously post' as,...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of June 9, 2008 2008-06-16 07:18:07 Finally, three of country's largest Internet service providers have agreed to block access to child pornography sites. The move was part of an agreement reached with the New York Attorney General. Google and Yahoo have reached an agreement by which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo's search...
Happy Independence Day! 2008-07-04 08:00:00 Due to the Independence
Day holiday, we won't be publishing our E-Commerce Law Briefs today. Our E-Commerce Law Briefs will return next Friday. In the meantime, don't forget that we will be hosting Blawg Review #167: 50 Stars of the Blawgosphere on Monday, July 7th. Read more:Happy
Internet Evidence (Part I: Authentication) 2008-07-02 09:52:43 Technology’s pervasive reach and society’s mounting dependence upon it has weighty implications for evidence jurisprudence. As individuals continue to use the Internet
as a means of commerce, personal expression, and social interaction, the Internet has become an increasingly important source of information pertaining to those personal and business transactions. When... Read more:Authentication
, Evidence
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of June 23, 2008 2008-06-27 16:11:57 After resolving its dispute with the Drudge Retort, the Associated Press (AP) is working to develop guidelines for what it considers to be permissible use of its content by bloggers. The Drudge Retort is Rogers Cadenhead's takeoff of the Drudge Report. Earlier this month, the AP sent a notice ordering...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of June 16, 2008 2008-06-21 15:19:43 An arbitrator has ordered Media Breakaway and its CEO, Scott Richter, to pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in legal fees for spamming MySpace users. "The arbitrator in the case noted that Media Breakaway has made efforts to comply with the law, such as making affiliates sign...
Internet Evidence (Part III: Hearsay Exceptions) 2008-07-16 17:00:24 Last Wednesday, we addressed the application of the Hearsay Rule to Internet
content. This week, we discuss the application of some common hearsay objections. Common Hearsay Exceptions All of the hearsay exceptions applicable to traditional printed documents are applicable to Internet content, but there are two such exceptions which have... Read more:Evidence
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