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Advertiser settles deceptive advertising charges stemming from undisclosed payments for online reviews
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
An advertiser that paid affiliates to post favorable reviews of its product in online articles, blog posts and other online editorial material without disclosing the arrangement agreed to pay a $250,000 fine to settle deceptive advertising charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission
Broker and compliance officer personally fined by SEC for customer privacy violations
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission imposed fines of $20,000 each against the former president of a broker-dealer and a former broker for their actions in transferring customer information to a new firm as the defunct firm wound down
FTC consumer privacy settlement over Google Buzz includes EU Safe Harbor violations
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- European Union, USA
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- May 5 2011
The Federal Trade Commission settled deceptive practices charges against Google relating to the rollout of the Google Buzz social network in 2010, including charges that Google violated the substantive requirements of the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor agreement
Notice of past infringements on online photo site does not obligate operator to proactively screen site
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
An online photo-sharing site does not have a duty to search its site for material that infringes an artist's works, even if it has received past notices of infringement of the same works from the artist, a district court ruled
Bills to regulate consumer privacy introduced in U.S. House and Senate
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
Several bills aimed at regulating the collection and use of consumer personal information was introduced in Congress in April
Under Arkansas law, insurance law writing requirement satisfied by online transaction
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
A requirement in the Arkansas law that a rejection of medical benefits in an automobile insurance policy be in writing is satisfied by an electronic form completed online, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled
Infringement and circumvention of massively multiplayer online video game yield $300,000 damages award
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
The court entered a default judgment for statutory damages for trademark and copyright infringement and circumvention of technological measures resulting from the distribution of unauthorized copies of the plaintiff's videogame
Mobile carriers not secondarily liable for copyright infringement on multimedia messaging system
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
Mobile carriers are not liable for inducing infringement of copyright on their multimedia messaging system because they did not design the system with the object of promoting infringement, nor did they take any specific, affirmative steps to actively encourage or induce infringement by users of the system, a district court ruled in a copyright infringement action brought by a producer of multimedia messaging content
CAN-SPAM Act may be applicable to Facebook messages
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
The CAN-SPAM Act may apply to communications intended to drive users of the Facebook social network to "pages" that redirect the users to an advertiser's external Web site and also encourage them to send additional messages to other users, a district court ruled
No CDA 230 protection for online booksellers for internet sale of book
- Proskauer Rose LLP
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- USA
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- May 5 2011
While online booksellers are immune under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for defamation claims arising out of promotional material supplied by third parties and posted on the booksellers' sites, Section 230 does not extend to defamation claims arising out of the books themselves, a district court ruled
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