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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
Ninth Circuit: Roommates.com Not Entirely Protected by Section 230 2008-04-04 13:56:36 The Internet is buzzing with news of yesterday’s decision in Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com, ___ F.3d ___, 2008 WL 879293 (9th Cir. 2008). A number of commentators have posted summaries and analyses of the decision, so we will not duplicate their efforts here. (This post... Read more:Ninth
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E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 24, 2008 2008-03-31 16:45:49 "A security lapse made it possible for unwelcome strangers to peruse personal photos posted on Facebook's popular online hangout, circumventing a recent upgrade to the Web site's privacy controls." (Link: Technician bypasses security to view private Facebook photos at SilliconValley.com) E-Commerce Law Briefs is a weekly feature appearing each Friday... 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
Ninth Circuit: Roommates.com Not Entirely Protected by Section 230 2008-04-04 13:56:36 The Internet is buzzing with news of yesterday???s decision in Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com, ___ F.3d ___, 2008 WL 879293 (9th Cir. 2008). A number of commentators have posted summaries and analyses of the decision, so we will not duplicate their efforts here. (This post... Read more:Ninth
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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,...
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