E-Commerce Law
The E-Commerce Law Blog discusses news, trends, and legal issues affecting Internet Business. It is authored by Jonathan D. Frieden, a principal in Odin Feldman Pittleman, PC. where he tries a variety of complex commercial disputes and criminal matters.
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Recent Articles
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 1, 2010
The White House has released a summary of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, which includes an expansion of a classified Internet monitoring system called Einstein. In what we're sure is unrelated news, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned of a "rapidly...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of February 22, 2010
Last week, Microsoft sent a DMCA notice to Network Solutions complaining about cryptome.org, a website which "welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of February 15, 2010
Google has donated $2 million to Wikipedia. Though Wikipedia has been criticized for uneven quality and reliability, a 2005 study concluded that it was just as reliable as Encyclopedia Britannica. In a statement announcing the donations, Google co-founder Sergey Brin called Wikipedia “one of the g...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of February 8, 2010
Facebook is getting new competition from a familiar source. With Buzz, Google has entered the social networking space. Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee says that judges should not be Facebook "friends" with attorneys who may appear before them. "When judges 'friend' lawyers who may...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 25, 2010
A federal judge has reduced the verdict in the only file-sharing case to have gone to trial in the United States. The case has now been tried twice. In 2007, a $222,000 judgment was awarded against a Minnesota woman who shared 24 songs over the Internet. Last year, another judge...A federal judge...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 18, 2010
We're fairly certain that New York Times Company Chairman Arthur Sulzberger doesn't read E-Commerce Law, especially after hearing the he planned to announce that the New York Times will soon begin charging for its online content. As we indicated last week, 77 percent of Internet users say they...
Website Lauding Defendant's "Worldwide Expertise" and Facilitating One-Way Contact to the Defendant Too Passive to Confer Jurisdiction
In Jensen v. Modern Aero, Inc., 2010 WL 88229 (Minn. App. Jan. 12, 2010), the Court of Appeals of Minnesota held that a defendant's website, which lauded defendant's "worldwide" expertise," listed a toll-free telephone number for defendant, and provided an electronic form for customers to contact...
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 11, 2010
We have often discussed the future of newspapers in a society that increasingly seeks news and information from the Internet. Nearly four years ago, we suggested that a "pay-for-online-content model is unlikely to work, given the number of free Internet news sources." It looks like we were right -...
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E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of December 14, 2009
Last Monday, the United States Supreme Court announced that it will review a case in which three Ontario, California police officers and another employee complained that their employer improperly snooped on their text messages, many of which were sexually explicit. "While the case involves...
