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Is the medium the message? Netflix’s decision to post material information on social media channels

  • Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 17 2013

The news is out! There's a buzz in the blogosphere. It's trending on Twitter. The Securities and Exchange Commission has authorized the use of social

Washington state legislators withdraw bill allowing employers to access social media accounts during investigations

  • Barnes & Thornburg LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2013

A proposed bill amendment in Washington's state legislature that could have allowed employers the right to demand access to employees' social media

Deletion of Facebook page spoliation

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2013

A New Jersey District Court has sanctioned a personal injury plaintiff for spoliation following the plaintiff's deletion of his Facebook account

Protection of children prompts potential FCC regulation of internet and wireless video programming and enhanced state privacy rules

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2009

In the next few days, concerns about the protection of children from indecency and violence could lead to a report from the FCC to Congress urging use of the V Chip and other parental controls in devices other than television sets

Settlement Google news case

  • Venable LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2007

A highly publicized case that has been going on for the last two years in which the large international service, Agence France-Presse, sued Google Inc. claiming Google, through Google News, infringed on its copyrights was settled last week

EU Parliament rejects telecom reform package

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • European Union
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  • May 8 2009

In a surprise development, the European Parliament (EP) on Wednesday rejected a wide-ranging overhaul of European Union (EU) telecom rules as EP members deadlocked on a late amendment that would have limited the prosecution of EU web users who illegally download copyrighted material

Comments filed in Child Safe Viewing Act proceeding

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2009

Initial comments were recently filed in response to the FCC's Notice of Inquiry (NOI) regarding "advanced blocking technologies," as required pursuant to the Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007, available here

SARFT requires service entities to watch more closely the content of internet audio-visual programs

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • May 4 2009

On March 30, 2009, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) released the Circular on Strengthening the Administration of the Content of Internet Audio-Visual Programs to the local departments of radio, film and television

Irish file-sharing case sets legal precedent

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland
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  • January 29 2009

An action brought by four record companies (EMI Records (Ireland) Ltd; SONY BMG Music Entertainment (Ireland) Ltd; Universal Music (Ireland) Ltd and Warner Music (Ireland) Ltd) against Ireland's largest internet service provider, Eircom, in which they sought orders under the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 to restrain Eircom from infringing copyright in sound recordings that were owned by, or exclusively licensed to, the record companies by making available copies of those recordings to the public (through Eircom's internet service facilities) without their consent, has been settled

National advertising initiative updates behavioral targeting principles

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2009

Behavioral targeting is the practice of selecting and presenting advertising to Internet users based on their presumed interests as deduced from "clickstream" data recording the websites they visit and the webpages they view