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 | Attorney-Client Privilege Trumps Company's Email Policy
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP; November 6, 2009, previously published on November 5, 2009 Despite company policy to the contrary, a former employee's personal emails to her attorney were protected by the attorney-client privilege. |
| Internet's Expansion with Internationalized Domain Names may Spur Registration Boom and Cybersquatting
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP; November 5, 2009, previously published on November 3, 2009 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)--which is responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses on the Internet--approved a new plan on October 30, 2009, to allow non-Latin characters in domain names. |
 | Your Shoes Could be a Pesticide
Lisa L. Halko, Daniel Leacox; Greenberg Traurig, LLP; November 5, 2009, previously published on October 2009 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) recently sued a clothing company for selling shoes as pesticide products without proper registration. Shoe labels claimed that silver in the foot bed has antimicrobial properties. |
| FINRA Addresses Regulatory Challenges of Online Social Networking Activities
Richard T. Choi, Diane Duhaime; Jorden Burt LLP; November 5, 2009, previously published on October 30, 2009 On October 27, 2009, in remarks before the Annual Meeting of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), FINRA chief Richard Ketchum addressed the "new regulatory challenges" raised by online social networking sites. Social networking sites include such... |
| Updated FTC Endorsement Rule
Robert M. Wolin; Baker & Hostetler LLP; November 3, 2009, previously published on October 29, 2009 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently revised its guidance with respect to the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertisements. 16 C.F.R. Pt. 255. The new guidance is effective December 1, 2009, and is applicable to advertisements of almost any type by entities subject to FTC... |
| FCC Proposes Rules on "Net Neutrality"
Maureen Jeffreys, Stephanie M. Phillipps; Arnold & Porter LLP; November 3, 2009, previously published on October 2009 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has adopted a highly anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) looking towards the codification and expansion of "net neutrality" principles intended to preserve the open Internet. Comments on the Notice are due January... |
| Endorse This! New FTC Guidelines on Endorsements and Testimonials
Patricia Foster; Frost Brown Todd LLC; November 3, 2009, previously published on October 16, 2009 In an effort to stem false or misleading endorsements, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") revised its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising ("Guides") on October 5, 2009. When the Guides were last updated in 1980, the internet was in its... |
| Federal Broadband Grant Program Approaches Halftime
Frederick M. Joyce, Christine McLaughlin; Venable LLP; November 3, 2009, previously published on October 2009 The "first round" of federal broadband grant applications are under review; grant notices are likely to be issued very soon. With indications that there will be only one more round of grant awards, anyone interested in applying for funds under the Recovery Act's various broadband... |
| "New Media" Provisions of Revised FTC Endorsement and Testimonial Guides
Gary D. Hailey; Venable LLP; November 3, 2009, previously published on October 2009 The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it has approved final revisions to its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (16 C.F.R. Part 255), which address endorsements and testimonials by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities in... |
| What Associations Need to Know about the Revised FTC Endorsements and Testimonials Guides
Gary D. Hailey; Venable LLP; November 3, 2009, previously published on November 2, 2009 The Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") recently announced that it has approved final revisions to its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (the "Guides"), which address endorsements and testimonials by consumers, experts, organizations, and... |
