Tweet The New York Times is reporting that a broad coalition of organizations including the ACLU, the EFF, Google, AT&T and Microsoft have formed a new group called the Digital Due Process Coalition to push Congress to strengthen Internet privacy laws. Facebook is notably absent from the group.
Monthly Archive: March 2010
Mar 25
FTC Seeks Public Comment on its Children’s Online Privacy Rule
Tweet Yesterday the FTC announced the review of its Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule. COPPA imposes requirements on operators of Web sites that are aimed at children under 13, or that knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. For example, the Rule requires online operators to get parental permission before collecting, using, …
Mar 22
Do You Use SSL On Your Site?
Tweet If you are a provider of sensitive Web-based services, do you send all data exclusively using secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol? The Electronic Frontier Foundation — citing a March 17th FTC “roundtable” speech by Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour – reports that SSL is now on the FTC’s agenda. While the largest Web services (Yahoo!, Facebook) will give a lot of thought to Commissioner Jones’ …
Mar 18
Federal Court: Whether UGC Trumps CDA Is a Jury Question
Tweet A recent ruling by a U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut suggests that a Web site operator may not be entitled to immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) when hosting certain user generated content. It’s an important decision for any advertiser that solicits creative work from its customers. This dispute centered …
Mar 15
Maine Ready to Repeal Online Marketing Law
Tweet We reported last year about the passage by Maine of a sweeping law governing online marketing to minors under 18 years old. After being challenged as unconstitutional by a coalition of major Internet companies that included Yahoo and AOL, a committee of the Maine legislature last week voted to repeal the law, according to a report in Media Post. The full Maine legislature will …
Mar 15
Social Media Chart of the Day
Tweet If you’re new to marketing and not sure which social media to use to advance your company’s interests, take a look at this handy guide from cmo.com. The guide gives thumbnail sketches of (and ratings for) many of the leading social media options, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Del.icio.us.
Mar 11
Legal Win for Google AdWords
Tweet A California federal court has handed Google a legal victory in a battle over its successful AdWords platform. The plaintiff in Jurin v. Google Inc. sells building materials to contractors and homeowners. Plaintiff sells the materials under its ”StyroTrim” trademark. The plaintiff was upset to learn that Google’s AdWords program had “suggested” StyroTrim as a keyword. Competitors allegedly bid on the term and …
Mar 08
Who Owns the Software and Software Tools Undergirding Digital Ads?
Tweet Technology has certainly changed advertising. But, often, the ownership, intellectual property and other clauses in agreements between agencies and advertisers have not been adapted to accommodate the changes in the services agencies provide. Candice Kersh, a partner with Frankfurt Kurnit and one of our colleagues, has written an essay on ownership issues in the creation of digital advertising …
Mar 05
Zittrain: How New Online Platforms Affect Us
Tweet Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society recently gave a talk, available here, about how a new range of online platforms are increasingly touching our lives. This new range of projects marshals armies of individual thinkers and makes the application of human brainpower as purchasable over the “cloud” as additional server …
Mar 03
Are You a Player in the P2P World?
Tweet If you are, then plan to attend the March 9th Distributed Computing Industry Association P2P and Cloud Market Conference. The conference — at New York’s Princeton Club – features presentations from top P2P, cloud computing, and social network operators, as well as advertising agencies, online ad networks, ISPs, and others. Our law firm, Frankfurt Kurnit, sponsors the event. And our colleague …
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