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Whitney C. Gibson; Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 22, 2013, previously published on May 20, 2013 It's Monday morning. As you're grabbing a cup of coffee, your cell phone rings. It's one of your fellow executives who asks if you have seen what's being said online about your bank. You hadn't, but you rush to your computer. Your inbox has become full of Google alerts related to your bank. In...
| | The New Generic Top-Level Domains and the New Trademark Clearinghouse: Deciding Whether to Register Your Brands
Susan Neuberger Weller; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article May 22, 2013, previously published on May 16, 2013 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is the organization that oversees domain names worldwide. It recently began accepting new applications for expanding the number of generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) on the Internet. The most popular gTLDs...
| | The Great Disappearing Acts: California Considers Two Bills Addressing the Removal of Online Information of Minors
Jake Romero; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article May 21, 2013, previously published on May 17, 2013 Do you ever find yourself worrying that, given the types of things minors deem appropriate to post on social networking Web sites like Facebook and Twitter, our country won’t be able to produce an electable candidate for president in 40 years? If so, you’ll be glad to know that the...
| | VoIP: Reap the Benefits but Understand the Risks
Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article May 20, 2013, previously published on May 2013 Many businesses are cancelling their traditional land lines in favor of Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP"), the new technology used for making phone calls over the internet or an internal network. However, while reaping the benefits of (i) cost savings, (ii) data integration, and (iii)...
| | Credit Unions and Social Media: What’s Your Policy?
Douglas Hattaway; Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article May 20, 2013, previously published on May 14, 2013 According to a 2012 poll by CUNA Mutual Group, 94% of credit unions are investing time and money in Facebook as part of their marketing strategy, and only 1% of credit unions were not planning on using social media in 2013. Credit unions have been relatively quick to embrace social media as a...
| | FTC Votes to Keep July 1 Compliance Deadline for COPPA
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 20, 2013, previously published on May 2013 The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously this week to keep the July 1, 2013, compliance date for the new COPPA Rule. Representatives from several industry groups had asked the FTC to delay the compliance date to give businesses more time to make the changes necessary to comply with the new...
| | New York Court of Appeals upholds Amazon Law
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 20, 2013, previously published on May 2013 The New York Court of Appeals recently upheld the constitutionality of New York’s Amazon law, which requires out-of-state (or remote) sellers to collect sales tax on taxable sales to New York customers based only on the sellers’ referral agreements with New York residents and remit...
| | California Considering a Bill Requiring Removal of Personal Information from Children's Social Media Accounts
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 20, 2013, previously published on May 2013 The California Senate has approved Senate Bill 501, which, if enacted, would provide significant fines for social networking sites that fail to remove the personal information of a child within 96 hours of receiving such a request. The bill provides that "a social networking Internet Web site...
| | How to “.Com”ply with Disclosure Rules for Digital Advertising - Part 2: Tips for Businesses Advertising Online in the U.S.
Catherine M. Samuel, Meghan Waters; McCarthy Tétrault LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 17, 2013, previously published on May 16, 2013 In Part 1 of this blog series on digital advertising, we canvassed the disclosure rules in light of the recent the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s recent publication, “.com Disclosures, How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising”. In Part 2 of this blog series, we...
| | How to “.Com”ply with Disclosure Rules for Digital Advertising - Part 1: Avoiding Deceptive Advertising in the Digital Age
Catherine M. Samuel, Meghan Waters; McCarthy Tétrault LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 17, 2013, previously published on May 10, 2013 Does the medium matter? According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s recent publication, “.com Disclosures, How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising”, consumer protection laws apply equally to all forms of media and devices, including smartphones, tablets,...
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