It is important to be aware of how easy it is to unintentionally create a binding contract when communicating by email.
Email communications are the most common form of business communication. A large and critical portion of [...]
You invest a lot of time, resources and money developing, operating and marketing your business, and building your good reputation in the market. Then someone, likely a disgruntled customer, posts a very negative review. You may [...]
LinkedIn pushed back – for now
Data is king on the Internet. Of course, real commerce does occur via the Internet in huge and increasing volumes and SaaS offerings are proliferating, but no matter what activities are occurring, [...]
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Categories: Internet lawyer, Copyright Infringement, data scraping, data security, CFAA
| Read MoreIn many license and services agreement negotiations the last clause to be finalized is the limitation of liability clause. There’s good reason for this because at the end of the day, after all the details regarding obligations [...]
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Categories: Internet lawyer, internet lawyers, limitation of liability, software license, consequential damages
| Read MoreA 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 [...]
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, [...]
