News Briefs
October 30, 2008
The latest news from the franchising world.
New Strategies for Remote Backup Replication and Disaster Recovery
October 30, 2008
Most large and mid-sized law firms today have disaster recovery plans in place. But are the plans realistic? Do they truly meet the needs of the organization? Do they really bring to the project the full range of options that are available to sophisticated providers of legal services? These questions are of paramount importance for those managing a disaster recovery plan, since the potential of natural disasters or terrorist threats is becoming an increasingly bigger concern for businesses to face.
<i>Veoh</i> Ruling: Protecting Service Providers or Is It a Trap Door?
October 29, 2008
The recent ruling in <i>Io Group Inc. v. Veoh Networks Inc.</i> has been widely heralded as a win for online service providers in the legal maelstrom surrounding social media. Veoh is an Internet TV platform similar to YouTube that hosts user uploaded content. When clips from adult movies owned by Io Group appeared on Veoh's network, Io brought a copyright infringement suit, rather than issuing DMCA notices to Veoh requesting that its content be removed. Io lost its case.
County Sued over Internet 'Wall of Shame'
October 29, 2008
A Long Island, NY, attorney is suing Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi over his "Wall of Shame" initiative ' posting photos of suspected drunken drivers on the Web.
Think Twice Before Reading Employees' Text Messages
October 29, 2008
A recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has provided a loud wake-up call to employers who wish to monitor employee communications. In <i>Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co, Inc. et al.</i>, the court held that the City of Ontario, CA, violated the state and federal constitutional privacy rights of its police officers when it reviewed their personal text messages.
Music on the Web
October 29, 2008
Any attorney practicing Internet law probably has plenty of clients that offer music to their users ' from background music for a site feature or page to television and movie programming, advertising, Webcasting, play-on-demand music and music videos. Those clients may think that all they need to play music on their service is a license from the record company that released it. Those clients would be wrong.
DMCA: A Safe Harbor for Video Sharing?
October 29, 2008
As the popularity of Web video continues to grow, so too does the potential for contributory copyright infringement on popular video-sharing Web sites. These Web sites become venues for infringing behavior, simply due to the sheer number of users uploading new videos daily. Consequently, content owners have contended that such Web sites must take a greater role in stemming their users' infringement. The Web site owners have countered that they need only follow the dictates outlined by the DMCA safe harbors that can immunize service providers from copyright liability. Thus, both sides continue to dispute what it means to be compliant with the DMCA. They also dispute which entity should bear the ultimate responsibility for policing video-sharing sites for infringing content: the Web site owner or the content owner.
e-Commerce Docket Sheet
October 29, 2008
Credit-Card Issuing Banks May Benefit from Data Security Reqs. <br>Parties' Subcontract Governs Software Transaction, Despite Purview of VA's UCITA<br>Cable TV Remote Storage DVR System Is Not Direct Copyright Infringer<br>'Free' Software Charges Settled with $2.1 Mil. Fine<br>Forum Selection Clause On Web Site Sufficiently In Contract Is Enforceable
Changing Internet Pharmacy Legal Standards
October 29, 2008
Telemedicine, on the scene medically and legally for several decades, is an area ' in the form, strictly speaking, of providing some kind of health care or health-care products or services ' under the Big Top of the e-commerce fair that is subjected regularly to regulatory scrutiny, debate, enforcement actions, improvements and all the other aspects of e-commerce, although sometimes at a slower pace than within the sector's other channels.
