A U.S. District Court in Brooklyn has dismissed two lawsuits against Facebook, one brought by families of victims of Hamas terror attacks, and the other brought by 20,000 Israeli citizens. The claims allege that Facebook provided [...]
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Categories: Internet lawyer, Communications Decency Act, CDA, Facebook, Terrorism
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It’s actually pretty easy to lose the attorney-client privilege protection when sharing documents online.
Background:
Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is largely responsible for the plethora of user-generated content on the Internet. Section 512(c) provides that a service provider (e.g., a website) will [...]
Kidnapping a person and demanding a ransom for the victim’s release is old school. Now the perpetrators can hack your network and either encrypt your data, lock screens or disable the network and demand a ransom for receiving an [...]
Last week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent more than 90 letters to advertisers and influencers using Instagram reminding them of their obligations to disclose brand relationships in social media posts, in particular on [...]
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Categories: Internet lawyer, Influencers, Endorsement Guides, Federal Trade Commission, Instagram, deceptive advertising
| Read MoreOn April 13th, in the northern district court of California, Craigslist was awarded $60 million in a data scraping case against real estate listing site Radpad (Craigslist, Inc. v. RadPad, Inc., No. 16-01856 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 13, [...]
Beginning in February, Google has been sending notices to app developers that Google intends to limit the visibility of (i.e., remove) Google Play Store apps that do not conform with Google’s current User Data policies. An app [...]
Source code escrows have always been a bit of a strange beast. Though, the idea is simple enough: if there is a vendor meltdown for mission critical software, then the licensee gets a delivery of the source code in order to [...]
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Categories: Internet lawyer, Internet Attorney, Saas Licenses, Software as a Service, Source Code Escrow
| Read MoreMuch of the Internet is filled with user-generated content. In order to use that content, companies need to receive sufficient rights from the owner of that content. In that regard, based on a recent complaint, Anheuser-Busch may [...]
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Categories: User Generated Content, Internet lawyer, Internet Attorney, sweepstakes, contests, Copyright Infringement
| Read MoreWhat is the power of a tweet? As we see from President Trump’s use of Twitter, a short tweet can rock the world. Well, now, a man has been arrested last Friday, March 17th, in Maryland and charged with a crime arising from [...]
