By Eric Goldman Over the weekend, we converted the blog from Movable Type to WordPress. If you haven’t had a chance to check out the new page layout, I encourage you to do so. You can see the difference by…
I don’t often make purely administrative posts, so let me start by thanking you for reading the blog. Whether you’re a long-time reader or a relative newcomer, it means a lot to me that you’re willing to share a portion…
California enacted a new law against “revenge” porn, sometimes called “involuntary” porn. SB 255, codified as California Penal Code 647(j)(4). The law says it is “disorderly conduct” for a defendant to take intimate and confidential recordings, such as photos or…
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** Fourth Internet Law Work-in-Progress Symposium March 8, 2014, New York Law School ******************************************************** The Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University…
California enacted a new law (AB 370) requiring many websites to disclose more information about how they track users. Websites that collect personal information about their users must disclose (1) how they respond to a web browser’s “do not track”…
[Eric’s note: I hoped to blog this at Forbes last year and just ran out of time. The case addresses such a classic Internet trademark law question that it’s worth sharing even at this late date.] Dudley v. Healthsource Chiropractic,…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani with comments from Eric] Patterson v. Grant-Herms, 2013 Tenn. App. 675 (Tenn. Ct. App. Oct. 8, 2013) Defendant Natalie Grant-Herms wasn’t allowed to board a flight at the same time as her four year old daughter,…
[By Venkat Balasubramani, with comments from Eric] Chaney v. Fayette County Public School Dist., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 143030 (N.D. Ga. Sept. 30, 2013). Chelsea Chaney posted a photo to Facebook of herself in a bikini standing next to a…
You may recall my prior post where I outlined my conceptual objections to online trespass to chattels doctrines, including the common law, the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act and state computer crime laws like California Penal Code Sec. 502. As…
California recently enacted SB 568 (Business & Professions Code 22580) to prevent certain types of online advertising from being shown to kids. Like so many other state efforts to regulate the Internet, the new law takes an understandable regulatory objective…