E-Commerce Law

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of October 20, 2008

"American Airlines is suing Yahoo Inc. for trademark infringement, a case similar to one that the nation's largest airline settled this summer against Google, Inc.  American filed its lawsuit last week in U.S. District court in Fort Worth for unspecified damages, legal costs and money to run a "corrective" advertising campaign"

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 October 13, 2008

Google and Yahoo are in talks with the Department of Justice to avoid an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement.

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 October 6, 2008

Google and Yahoo are delaying their controversial search advertising partnership.

In a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Public Citizen seeks an injunction against John Dozier of Dozier Internet Law prohibiting Dozier from pursuing defamation and trademark claims against Ronald Riley, who runs the Web site CyberTrialLawyer-Sucks.com.  The suit also seeks attorney's fees and punitive damages.  "In the past month, three successive Internet hosting companies have taken down Riley’s Web site after each company received a warning letter from Dozier. Among Dozier’s complaints was that Riley used his firm’s name to link to an unrelated Web site, which Dozier claimed was a trademark infringement."

Now Congressmen can post on YouTube.

Spam is down.

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 September 29, 2008

Why is the Internet like the Hotel California?  A Canadian newspaper points out some of the problems that arise because the Internet never forgets - "you can post to it anytime you like, but it never leaves."

Outsourcing aids many data thefts.

In separate actions, Microsoft Corporation and the State of Washington have initiated lawsuits against vendors of "scareware," which bombards "innocent PC users with fake messages detailing putative threats or infections." 

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.