Internet Law

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• Trademark Your Name

  
  IowaBiz — Authority: 423
  Image by t-dawg via Flickr Before It Is Too Late Register your trademark . This is the best advice I wish I could retroactively give most businesses. By the time they come to see me, there is a problem, one which is often too late to fix. Protecting the name of your company with a federal registration offers ...
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• Universal Settles Newspapers’ Complaints Over Fake Alien Abduction News

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  A marketing ploy by Universal Pictures has backfired, with the studio agreeing to pay $22,500 for creating fake news reports about alien abductions attributed to seven real media organizations in Alaska. Universal created the online articles to promote its alien-abduction movie, The Fourth Kind, according to the ...
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• Convicted Germans Seek to Edit History in Suit Against Wikipedia

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  Two Germans convicted of killing an actor in 1990 are suing Wikipedia’s parent in an effort to force the online, publicly edited encyclopedia to remove their names from an English-language entry about their crime. The plaintiffs, Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, say their right to privacy should prevail, the New ...
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• Facebook Status Update Enough to Release Suspect from Jail

  
  The Internet Patrol — Authority: 123
  A 19-year-old New York man has been released from New Yorks notorious Rikers Island jail after a court agreed with his Facebook alibi that he couldnt have been robbing two people at gunpoint while at the same time posting a status update to Facebook from his fathers house, twelve miles away from the scene of the crime.
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• But watch out for injuries

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 145
  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 .
  3 days ago

• Internet Laws Part 1: The Law of Exclamation

  
  Blurred Clarity — Authority: 419
  "The more exclamation points used in an email (or other posting), the more likely it is a complete lie. This is also true for excessive capital letters." This law is related to author Terry Pratchetts field test for insanity, in which an increasing number of exclamation marks from one to five indicates ...
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• Lawyer Subpoenas Newspaper for Identity of Online Critic

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  A Kentucky lawyer wants to know the identity of an online critic who went by the screen name "supercalifragilistic.” The lawyer, Astrida Lemkins of Lexington, Ky., claims supercalifragilistic defamed her in online comments on Kentucky.com, a website operated by the Lexington Herald-Leader, according to stories on ...
  4 days ago

• The stuff of human rights | Afua Hirsch

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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: 109
  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: 400
  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: 111
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Dealing With Digital Assets After Death

  
  Slaw — Authority: 600
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Big Day, Big Week

  
  The Business of Creativity — Authority: 114
  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 ...
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• 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
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• Ten Years of Internet Law News

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 725
  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 ...
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• Your Site, Others Misbehavior: The Two U.S. Safe Harbor Laws

  
  The New Entrepreneur - BusinessWeek — Authority: 126
  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 ...
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