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Happy Belated Memorial Day!

Posted on May 26, 2009
E-Commerce Law Briefs will return next weekend.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of April 20, 2009

Posted on April 27, 2009
The Wikipedia Foundation has demanded that the artists responsible for Wikipedia Art surrender the domain name wikipediaart.org. "Last February, [the artists], working with several collaborators, created a Wikipedia article and invited the general public to add to it, following Wikipedia?s standards of credibility and verifiability...

Southern District of New York Holds that State Law Intellectual Property Claims are Not Barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

Posted on April 21, 2009
In Atlantic Recording Corporation et al. v. Project Playlist, Inc. 2009 WL 766224 (S.D.N.Y.) six of the world's largest record companies sued the defendant, Project Playlist, Inc. (?Project Playlist?), for copyright infringement in the District Court for the Southern District of New York...

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

Posted on April 20, 2009
"A Texas couple who say Internet posters made their lives "torture" after they were charged with rape are closer to stripping away their tormentors' anonymity. A judge in California turned down a motion by Topix.com to quash a subpoena for identifying information on 178 anonymous posters, ABC News reported...

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E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 23, 2009

Posted on March 27, 2009
"Netflix Inc is the latest media company to integrate with social networking website Facebook, whose huge community of young, tech-savvy users could help drive growth of the online DVD rental service's subscriber base" E-Commerce Law Briefs is a weekly feature appearing each Friday afternoon on E-Commerce Law...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of February 9, 2009

Posted on February 16, 2009
"A statistical analysis of 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular US website and posted on the Internet reveals that people often" select weak or easily guessed passwords. The study found that 16 percent "took a first name as a password, often their own or one of their children, according...

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

Posted on February 06, 2009
Cybercrime is up.MySpace has booted 90,000 sex offenders.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 January 26, 2009

Posted on February 02, 2009
"An appeal filed with the Virginia Supreme Court this week claims that a Montgomery County judge erred in dropping a civil case developer Roger Woody brought against several Christiansburg bloggers" that the lawsuit claimed were critical of Woody's business practices...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 19, 2009

Posted on January 25, 2009
Belkin admits that fake positive reviews of its products were solicited by one of its employees. Apparently, in an effort to artificially boost Belkin's status on Amazon, Belkin business development representative Mark Bayard used the Mechanical Turk service "to ask users to write postive reviews of a Belkin product at...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 12, 2009

Posted on January 16, 2009
If you live in New York, you can now order Subway sandwiches by text message. Subway "restaurant owners have seen their average order sizes grow 50 percent since starting" the service."The lawsuit filed by a San Francisco chiropractor against a patient who wrote a negative review of him on Yelp...

Happy Holidays!

Posted on December 26, 2008
There will be no E-Commerce Law Briefs today. The feature will return after January 1st.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of December 15, 2008

Posted on December 22, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reported that Google had "approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content". Google dismissed the story and said that it remained committed to net neutrality...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of December 1, 2008

Posted on December 07, 2008
In response to the rapid increase in e-book sales, Random House is making thousands of books available in electronic form. The publisher expects its electronic library to grow from 8,000 titles to 15,000.The U.S. Army is spending $50 million over the five years to develop combat training video games...

Six People All E-Commerce Lawyers Should Follow on Twitter

Posted on December 04, 2008
Recently, E-Commerce Law started using Twitter, the popular microblogging site, to post short items of news and commentary to which we would not ordinarily devote an entire post on this blog. In just a few days, we've developed a growing following, mostly among law professors and other attorneys with an...

E-Commerce Law on Twitter

Posted on December 01, 2008
You can now follow E-Commerce Law on Twitter (we "tweet" under the user name JonathanFrieden because eCommerceLaw was already taken). Check it out and let us know what you think.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 28, 2008
Due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday, there will be no E-Commerce Law Briefs post this week. The E-Commerce Law Briefs for this week will be published next Friday, December 5th.

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

Posted on November 24, 2008
President-Elect Barack Obama will use YouTube for his weekly Presidential Address but may have to give up his Blackberry."Google won preliminary approval of a settlement of copyright lawsuits by publishers and authors in which it will pay $125 million to resolve claims over the company's book-scanning project...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of October 13, 2008

Posted on October 20, 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...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of October 6, 2008

Posted on October 13, 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...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of September 29, 2008

Posted on October 06, 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...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of September 22, 2008

Posted on September 29, 2008
The entertainment industry wants IPSs to block the trading of copyrighted files.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 15, 2008

Posted on September 21, 2008
After the Virginia Court of Appeals affirmed the spamming conviction of Jeremy Jaynes, the Virginia Supreme Court has struck down Virginia's anti-spam law on constitutional grounds. The case has lead some to question the willingness of the Virginia legislature to pass aggressive measures that may not pass constitutional scrutiny...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: September 1, 2008

Posted on September 08, 2008
Google is launching an Internet browser.International Internet traffic grew 53 percent from mid-2007 to mid-2008, down from a growth rate of 61 percent in the previous 12 months.E-Commerce Law Briefs is a weekly feature appearing each Friday afternoon on E-Commerce Law...

Happy (Belated) Labor Day!

Posted on September 02, 2008
E-Commerce Law Briefs will return this Friday, September 5, 2008.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of August 18, 2008

Posted on August 25, 2008
The White House is missing up to 225 days of email dating back to 2003. 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 August 11, 2008

Posted on August 17, 2008
Yahoo plans to permit users to opt-out of targeted advertising. Tiffany & Co. has appealed last month's dismissal of its federal suit against eBay. The court ruled "that trademark holders like the jewelry maker, rather than auction platforms like eBay, are responsible for policing their brands online...

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of August 4, 2008

Posted on August 11, 2008
The two female Yale law school students who sued anonymous individuals responsible for allegedly defamatory posts to the AutoAdmit.com website have named one of the offending posters. "The women say [Matthew C. Ryan] made sexually charged slurs about them on the Web, including a false claim that one of the...

The Rocket Docket

Posted on August 06, 2008
Some of my colleagues and I have launched the Rocket Docket, a new blog featuring a discussion of cases decided by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (the original "Rocket Docket.") Please let us know what you think.

E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of July 28, 2008

Posted on August 03, 2008
After being sued by NBC Universal and Fox, Red Lasso has shut down its video search and clipping website. Without permission "RedLasso . . . recorded TV shows and then indexed clips so users could find, pull, and embed them on other Web sites." NBC and the NFL are planning...

E-Commerce Law Named to Top 100 Legal Blogs

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Criminal Justice Degrees Guide has named E-Commerce Law to its list of the "top 100 law and lawyer blogs." Other notables on the list include Above the Law, Blawg Review, and Internet Cases.

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