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• But watch out for injuries

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 142
  If your fantasy football team is toast, and your fantasy pro basketball team is already looking a little weak, perhaps you can salvage some respect with a good performance in this league .
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• The stuff of human rights | Afua Hirsch

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  Its always a surprise to see the Human Rights Act, protector of justice and dignity, brought to the level of tangible goods – such as access to the internet or a KFC The Human Rights Act is so obviously about protecting justice and dignity that its always a surprise when enterprising litigants bring it to the ...
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• Warning: Eric Holder Doesn’t Really Want You to Pay $370

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  The FBI has issued a warning about a new e-mail scam that uses the name of Attorney General Eric Holder in an effort to collect $370.The e-mail tells the recipients that they are being investigated for terrorism and money laundering crimes, but they can pay $370 to buy a special certificate and avoid prosecution, ...
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• Law Firm & Ex-Associate Litigate Badmouth Blog Battle in State & Federal Court

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  A war of words between Levinson Axelrod and ex-associate Edward Harrington Heyburn is now in litigation. The New Jersey-based personal injury law firm filed an order to show cause in state court in Middlesex County Superior Court last week, seeking a shutdown order concerning the website in which Heyburn criticizes ...
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• eBay Terms Upheld

  
  IPblog | Intellectual Property Law in Canada — Authority: 110
  In a recent US lawsuit Tricome v. eBay, Inc., 2009 WL 3365873 (E.D.Pa. Oct 19, 2009), a user sued eBay in Pennsylvania and eBay invoked the “forum selection clause” in its online agreement.  That clause specifies that disputes under the agreement have to be brought in California, eBay’s home turf.The court ...
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• Bilski Oral Argument

  
  BlawgIT — Authority: 106
  Bilski Yesterday oral argument took place in the Supreme Court in what could be the most pivotal patent ruling of our time. The case revolves around Bilski’s patent application for a method of hedging the risk of fuel price fluctuations associated with bad weather. State Street Back in 1998, the Supreme ...
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• FTC Site Compliance Scams: Don’t Lose Your Internet Business

  
  Internet Law and Business Blog — Authority: 454
  Yes, many Internet marketers should be scared about the way they do business now because the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has new guidelines going into effect on December 1st concerning endorsements and testimonials. There are even some online marketers going into retirement or moving their businesses offshore ...
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• Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked to Mom of Criticized Teen

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  An Illinois judge has decided that an anonymous commenter on a newspaper website will be unmasked, even though the mother of a teen about whom "Hipcheck16" allegedly made "deeply disturbing" comments hasnt yet decided whether to sue over the posting. The mother, Lisa Stone, is a trustee of Buffalo Grove in suburban ...
  3 days ago

• Shill Bids for Domain Names Made by Auction Company Exec, Suit Alleges

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Shill bids for tens of thousands of domain names were secretly made by a former executive of the company that auctioned the domain names, a lawsuit alleges. An unidentified former vice-president of SnapNames.com, which is a subsidiary of Oversee.Net, Inc., manipulated the auction and drove up prices for domain name ...
  3 days ago

• Dealing With Digital Assets After Death

  
  Slaw — Authority: 594
  The New York Times had an interesting blog entry the other day about how one should plan to have one’s digital assets dealt with after death. The author is not talking about bank or brokerage accounts accessed by electronic means, but about one’s PayPal account, or eBay, or Second Life virtual/real estate, etc ...
  3 days ago

• Big Day, Big Week

  
  The Business of Creativity — Authority: 113
  It’s a big day and a big week for me. Tonight my friend and marketing partner Joel Comm and I are launching the FTC Toolkit and Site Compliant system tonight on a Webinar (sign up here) to help people become and remain compliant with the new FTC rules and guidelines for use of testimonials and ...
  3 days ago

• Samsung pays Qualcomm $1.3 billion to secure wireless licenses

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 162
  Samsung and Qualcomm have wrapped up a cross-licensing deal with ten figures of US currency in it, which will permit the Korean giant to continue producing 3G- and 4G-enabled wireless devices for the next 15 years. More here: Samsung pays Qualcomm $1.3 billion to secure wireless licenses
  3 days ago

• Ten Years of Internet Law News

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 730
  While readers of this blog may be more familiar with my blog postings or regular technology law columns, I also compile a daily Internet law news bulletin that is distributed daily by the Bureau of National Affairs in Washington, DC.  Today marks the 10th anniversary of Internet Law News.  My thanks to all the ...
  3 days ago

• Your Site, Others Misbehavior: The Two U.S. Safe Harbor Laws

  
  The New Entrepreneur - BusinessWeek — Authority: 124
  This is a post by guest blogger Jonathan I. Ezor. One of the most valuable features of the Web as a business medium is interactivity, the ability of a company to create a dialog with its customers (current and future) via the Web site. At the same time, though, a company may be concerned that users actions on their ...
  6 days ago

• Wanted: A Synopsis of Canadian Cybersecurity Laws

  
  Slaw — Authority: 594
  I have been asked (by an American colleague) if I know of any synopsis of “Canadian cybersecurity laws”. I am told that this expression means some mix analogous to the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, covering as well wiretaps, crimes, specific requirements for securing data. Core is private sector rather than ...
  1 week ago

• Jenzabar: Blogs are sticks and stones; they hurt me.

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 136
  Jenzabar, the educational software company Paul Levy and I mentioned last month (and which Overlawyered picked up) in connection with its “trademark as censorship tool” litigation, is back at it again — and not a little clumsily, for all its cleverness.  As Paul reports, the company’s lawyers arenow claiming ...
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• Major Announcement! New FTC Toolkit and Site Compliant program – Webinar

  
  The Business of Creativity — Authority: 113
  As many of you know, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued new rules relative to endorsements and testimonials.  Now, if you use endorsements and testimonials in your marketing (and every marketer worth their salt does) you could be fined thousands of dollars for “deceptive” advertising EVEN IF ALL YOUR ...
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• No Instant Internet Interruption – New European Internet Law Looms

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 774
  It’s over, Europe has finished new internet law. It almost sounds asinine, but now internet users in Europe are promised fair treatment, presumed innocence, and fair trials. The EU said it best : “Accordingly, these measures may only be taken with due respect for the principle of presumption of innocence and ...
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• Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It’s Bad, Very Bad

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 574
  Many thanks to Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing for publicizing this. Certainly not change I can believe in: The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. ...
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• How To Track Down Someone With The Use Of A Cell Phone Number

  
  Gwizz IT — Authority: 150
  Have you ever paid someone to do a job only to never see them again? If you were able to get that persons cell phone number, you could’ve tracked them down. You can now find out where a person lives and other vital information with a cell phone number. People with deception on their mind usually are not hesitant to ...
  1 week ago

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