Tweet Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain is a leading expert on the intersection of law and the Internet. His recent entertaining talk at TED focused on the many ways people on the Web help each other — for no money and nary a thank you. Wikipedia. Craigslist. Fixing other people’s sites. And why people pass beers at ballgames. It’s all on …
Monthly Archive: October 2009
Oct 29
Is Your Software Subject to New York Sales Tax?
Tweet Companies are increasingly paying for Software as a Service (“SaaS”), whereby a software provider licenses an application to its customers for use as a service on demand. Under this model of software deployment, a company receives the license to access and use a provider’s software (typically housed on the provider’s servers) for the company’s …
Oct 27
News
Tweet The Associated Press is reporting that Internet advertising appears to be making a comeback. Google and Facebook are wading into the waters of the music business, according to the New York Times. Comcast subscribers will soon be able to watch popular cable television series such as “Entourage” and “Mad Men” on their computers via the …
Oct 19
FTC Sears Settlement Remakes Data Collection Disclosure Landscape
Tweet The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently approved a settlement of a complaint against Sears Holding Management Company (“Sears”) regarding the failure, by Sears, to disclose certain online data collection practices. The settlement, which reflects the FTC’s increasing focus on privacy, has received attention. Below is a summary of the case, and suggestions for companies that track online …
Oct 19
News Roundup
Tweet Google has announced a new online service, Google Editions, that will let readers purchase e-books. This is the company’s first attempt to earn revenue from its Google Books scanning project. The Internet Advertising Bureau has come out against the FTC’s new blogger rules. China banned foreign investment into its online game industry. …
Oct 16
Another Sign of the Shifting Media Landscape
Tweet Editor & Publisher reports that The Huffington Post surpassed WashingtonPost.com in unique visitors last month.
Oct 14
Broadband Abroad
Tweet Finland has become the first country to legally guarantee broadband access (a one megabit connection starting in July; and a 100 megabit per second connection by the end of 2015).
Oct 13
Eric Schmidt on the Future of the Internet
Tweet Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently spoke to the Atlantic‘s James Fallows about the future of the Internet.
Oct 12
Were Photos Published on German Website Simultaneously Published in U.S. for Purposes of U.S. Copyright Law?
Tweet In a case addressing the intersection of the Copyright Act, the Berne Convention, and the Internet, a federal court in New Jersey has held that photographs published on a German website were not simultaneously published in the U.S. under U.S. copyright law. As a result, the photographs were not “United States work(s)” and the …
Oct 06
FTC Revises Endorsement and Testimonial Guidelines
Tweet The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved revisions to its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. The Guides were last updated in 1980. Among the changes, in situations where an advertised consumer’s experience with a product or service is not typical, advertisers now must clearly disclose the …
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