On-Line Privacy Protection Rules Take Effect
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) becomes effective April 21, 2000. Many companies are concerned.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property Online
MarkMonitor
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Taking a Byte Out of Electronic Recruiting: Applying Old Rules To New Technology
Steven M. Berlin of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Like so much else these days, the Internet and other technology-based tools are revolutionizing the way employees a.
Effects of the CAN-SPAM Act on E-Mail Marketing
Rauer L. Meyer and Heather Stewart of Thelen LLP
A common marketing technique today is for businesses to send unsolicited e-mail messages to a targeted group of recipients. Even when e-mail advertisements notify recipients that they may "opt out" of receiving future e-mails, such e-mail campaigns may be significantly impacted by a new federal law known as the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003," or the "CAN-SPAM Act."
Congressional Cure-All For Consumers' Clogged InboxesFederal Law Provides Uniform Set of Commercial Email Rules
Joseph J. Lewczak and Ivana Starr of Davis & Gilbert LLP
On December 16, 2003 President Bush signed into law the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, otherwise known as the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the "Act").
Internet Legal Issues: WWW Privacy Policy--Part II--Guidelines & Children Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998
Lloyd L. Rich of The Law Office of Lloyd L. Rich
This article discusses guidelines for preparing and implementing a company's privacy policy as well as the requirements mandated by the recently passed Children Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.
U.S. and Japan Reach Electronic Commerce Agreement
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Prime Minister Hashimoto and President Clinton reached an agreement at the G-8 Summit that electronic communic.
District Court Finds Virginia's Regulation of the Internet Unconstitutional
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
On October 11, 2001 the Federal District Court for the Western District of Virginia issued a ruling declaring a 1999 Virginia law subjecting web site operators to criminal prosection for "knowingly" allowing minors access to "harmful" sexually explicit material on their sites unconstitutional.
Zeran v. AOL: Why the Fourth Circuit is Wrong
Ian C. Ballon of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Discusses the Zeran v, America Online, Inc., where the Fourth Circuit broadly construed subpart (1) of the Good Samaritan exemption, created by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, to exempt interactive computer services from negligence claims premised on either publisher or distributor liability for third party acts of online defamation.
As Of July 1, 2004, Websites Require Privacy Policy Changes Under New California Law
Joseph J. Lewczak and Sofia Rahman of Davis & Gilbert LLP
If you take steps now to review your privacy policy and make any necessary changes, you can reduce your potential exposure to liability under a new and ground-breaking privacy law that just went into effect. The State of California passed a law late last year that requires any commercial website or online service operator who collects personally identifiable information about consumers residing in California ("Operators") to provide individuals with notice of its privacy policies.