E-Commerce Law

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 24, 2008

"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 afternoon on E-Commerce Law. Each week, E-Commerce Law Briefs will provide a brief summary and commentary on recent legal news affecting e-commerce businesses.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 17, 2008

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 Gone Wild at ABC News and College gossip site under scrutiny at Yahoo! News)

A Vermont court has applied Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in dismissing a defamation suit brought against the operators of iBrattleboro.com.

(Link:  Libel Suit Tossed Against Local News Site at Media Law)

E-Commerce Law Briefs is a weekly feature appearing each Friday afternoon on E-Commerce Law. Each week, E-Commerce Law Briefs will provide a brief summary and commentary on recent legal news affecting e-commerce businesses.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 10, 2008

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. Each week, E-Commerce Law Briefs will provide a brief summary and commentary on recent legal news affecting e-commerce businesses.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 3, 2008

The Supreme Court of Virginia has affirmed the nation's first felony spamming conviction.  Jeremy Jaynes was convicted in Loudoun County, Virginia and sentenced to nine years in prison for sending more than ten thousand unsolicited emails to AOL subscribers.  His conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Virginia in September 2006.

(Link:  Virginia court upholds prolific spammer's conviction at SilliconValley.com)

E-Commerce Law Briefs is a weekly feature appearing each Friday afternoon on E-Commerce Law. Each week, E-Commerce Law Briefs will provide a brief summary and commentary on recent legal news affecting e-commerce businesses.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of February 25, 2008

Some eBay sellers called for an extension of an eight-day boycott meant to protest recent fee increases and rule changes.  eBay says that the boycott has had no impact on the company's bottom line.

(Link:  EBay says sellers boycott had no effect on listing at SilliconValley.com)

"Nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs in 2007, accelerating the music industry's painful transition from CDs to digital downloads, according to a report released Tuesday."

(Link:  More teens ignore CDs in buying their tunes at SilliconValley.com)

After a six year battle, eBay has settled the "Buy It Now" patent case.  "The deal with MercExchange of Great Falls, Va., gives eBay control of three disputed patents, including the "Buy It Now" feature that enabled shoppers to buy items at a fixed price with a click of the mouse."

(Link:  EBay patent case settled at SilliconValley.com)

"Leading Internet scholars at Harvard Law School will head a task force exploring the safety of users at MySpace and other popular online hangouts amid growing fears that youngsters have become targets of sexual predators. The creation of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force is part of an agreement that MySpace, a unit of News Corp., reached with all attorneys general except Texas' in January."

(Link:  MySpace picks Harvard scholars to lead task force on Internet safety at SilliconValley.com)

E-Commerce Law Briefs is a weekly feature appearing each Friday afternoon on E-Commerce Law. Each week, E-Commerce Law Briefs will provide a brief summary and commentary on recent legal news affecting e-commerce businesses.