Social media sites are transforming not only the daily lives of consumers, but also how companies interact with consumers. Here at Morrison & Foerster, across all of our practice groups, we are seeing complex, cutting-edge legal issues arising out of social media. As with the Internet boom during the mid-to-late 1990s, social media is generating new legal questions at a far faster pace than the law’s ability to provide answers to such questions. In an effort to stay on top of these emerging issues, and to keep our clients and friends informed of new developments, Morrison & Foerster publishes this blog devoted to the law and business of social media.
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Be Careful What You Click for: A Canadian Court Rules that a Thumbs-Up Emoji Indicates a Binding Contractual Agreement
Canada, USA - July 28 2023 In this age of social media and texting, we use a plethora of shorthand visual and typographic icons to express a range of responses or reactions to…
PART 1 - Section 230: 27 Years Old and Still in the Spotlight
USA - July 21 2023 Here at Socially Aware we talk a lot about Section 230, the section of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) that immunizes social media…
Social Links: Social Media Account Ownership Once Again in the Spotlight
USA - June 29 2023 Social media continues to dominate the headlines this spring, with several high-profile events capturing the media’s, regulators’, and lawmakers’…
In the Crosshairs: The Legal Industry Grapples with the Application and Ethics of AI
USA - June 29 2023 In May 2023, Steven Schwartz of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman admitted that he used a generative AI (GAI) platform to produce six non-existent court…
Social Links: Section 230 Under Scrutiny (Again) From Lawmakers
USA - April 3 2023 At the federal level, Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary panel’s subcommittee on privacy, technology, and the law found common ground…
Court holds that Section 230’S carve out for “intellectual property” does not apply to publicity rights claim in New York
USA - February 27 2023 Section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act provides broad immunity to online platforms for claims arising from hosting third-party content…
Coalition of State Attorneys General Investigate Tiktok’s Potential Harm to Children and Teens
European Union, USA - May 17 2022 In early March 2022, a coalition of state Attorneys General launched an investigation of TikTok to determine whether the social media platform, which…
Social Links: behavioral targeting under scrutiny from lawmakers
USA - April 4 2022 Lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to take aim at social media platforms that collect and use personal information that build algorithms to target…
Facebook rebrands as “Meta;” disables facial recognition capabilities
China, USA - December 21 2021 In late October, Facebook announced that it would change its name to Meta, signaling a shift of the social media giant’s focus toward the metaverse…
District court enjoins controversial Texas House Bill 20
USA - December 15 2021 Over the past several years, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the federal law that provides social media platforms with immunity from…
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