LinkedIn boasts +120 million members who all agree to be bound to their User Agreement, but few LinkedIn members noticed that on June 16, 2011 the LinkedIn User Agreement changed. LinkedIn’s new User Agreement is not radically different from previous versions. However since the LinkedIn User Agreement binds +120 million…
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Only 5% of all adults used Social Media in 2005 when Pew Research first asked, and as ofAugust 2011 Pew now reports more than 65% of all adults use Social Media. To be more precise about what going on with online adults here’s the daily breakdown from another…
Copyright protection extends to cloud music lockers based on a new federal court ruling. US District Judge William H. Pauley III in New York granted judgments in favor of MP3tunes and Michael Robertson on August 22, 2011 under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) since MP3tunes complied with the DMCA…
In 2009 Google started offering legal research and eDiscovery services (Postini), and now Google announced that it invested $18.5 million in RocketLawyer.com which bills itself as the “fastest growing online legal service.” Forbes reported that RocketLawyer.com founder Charley Moore:
…the firm has 70,000 users a day and has…
Within 10 days of the riots in the UK a judge sentenced two young men, 20 and 22, to 4 years in jail for using Facebook. Without question Social Media has transformed communications and impacted the UK riots, but one might wonder if the courts may have acted too swiftly.
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A NY Times stock market report for August 8, 2011 highlighed the fact that Apple’s stock was the most valuable company in the world ahead of Exxon Mobil, but by the close of the day Exxon Mobil was still number one. Many stock analysts “expect Apple and Exxon Mobil to…
Apparently eBay wants to spread the word that it opposes an Internet sales tax. I wrote my eCommerce Times Legal Column recently about Internet sales taxes entitled “Sales Taxes on the Internet: Is This the Year We’ll Pay?” I suspect that as a result of my Column, eBay’s PR…
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GUEST BLOG FROM BARRY BARNETT
Barry Barnett has been a Guest Blogger in the past, his Blawgletter provides great thoughts, and insights. I read his blogs regularly. Over the years Barry and I have had a number of cases together and he is an outstanding lawyer. Barry is a partner…
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Apple did not prove that App Store was famous and not descriptive, therefore Apple failed to establish a likelihood of success at trial. On July 6, 2011 US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied Apple’s request to enjoin Amazon from using “App Store” as she ruled that it was unlikely that…
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As a retailer Apple appears to be second to no one, but since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery is it any wonder that a blogger visiting China recently discovered more than one counterfeit “Apple Store” selling Apple products and employees of the counterfeit “Apple Store” even believed…
