E-Commerce Law

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of November 2, 2009

Two high school sophomores have sued the school that punished them for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace.

Twitter and Facebook users were the subject of scams.

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of October 5, 2009

Amazon's new Kindle can wirelessly download books in the United States and more than 100 other countries.

AT&T has announced that it will permit iPhone users to use Internet calling services like Skype on its wireless network.

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of September 28, 2009

The United States Secret Service is investigating the Facebook poll asking if President Obama should be assassinated.

People spend 17 percent of their Internet time on social networking sites, up from 6 percent a year ago.

The iPhone may be hurting AT&T's brand.  On an unrelated note, new iPhone apps help track climate change and sex offenders.

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of September 21, 2009

"Facebook Settles Class-Action Suit Over Beacon Service"

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of September 14, 2009

Virginia's Workers Compensation Committee has backed off of its attempt to force Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user's account.

iStockphoto, a Getty Images subsidiary that licenses photos and other content, has begun promoting a guarantee by which the company will cover up to $10,000 of a licensee's legal fees for intellectual property claims brought against the licensee for use of a licensed image. 

"Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks"

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of September 7, 2009

President Obama warns young people to be careful what they post on Facebook.  Nearly half of employers use information posted on social networking sites to weed out job candidates and the practice isn't new.

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of August 10, 2009

Not surprisingly, Best Buy has announced that it will not honor the $9.99 price which was mistakenly listed on its website for 52-inch Samsung HDTVs. 

Many colleges are outsourcing their email and Google and Microsoft are swooping in to manage the accounts for free.  Last year, 42% of school reported that they had already migrated their email accounts or were about to do so; another 28% said they were considering it.  Google manages the email accounts of 2,000 universities and colleges, including Northwestern, Cornell, Georgetown, and Temple, and accounts for 57% of the market; 38% of schools who have migrated their email accounts have partnered with Microsoft.

A court has ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word.

Twitter was attacked again.

A new ICANN policy has stopped domain tasting.

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of August 3, 2009

A federal jury ordered a Boston University graduate student to pay $675,000 to four record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music.

The Marines and NFL are limiting the use of Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter and Facebook were hacked . . . again.

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of July 13, 2009

The latest keyword advertising trademark infringement suit has been filed by language-learning software developer Rosetta Stone against Google. 

General Motors plans to experiment with auctioning its new cars on eBay.

For the third time this year, Twitter has been hacked.

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

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of June 22, 2009

Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced that his Consumer Protection Division, along with consumer protection agencies from 40 other States and the District of Columbia, have entered into a settlement concerning security breaches which led to the theft of customer credit card data from 100 million credit card transactions in 2005 and 2006.

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