Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Here’s an interesting story by Eric Torbenson from the New York Post: ”The monster that ate the recovery–Why the rise of Internet shopping could destroy jobs and the economy.” [It's alternate subheadline is "could filling your iPod destroy the economic recovery?"] The premise is “online sales mean fewer employees and fewer physical storefronts. That means [...]
I just came across this provision in a web site opt-out menu: “Please cancel my request to not recieve money saving Pet Tag discount emails.” Spelling error, double negative, split infinitive–there’s a lot going on in this sentence. Sphere: Related Content Related posts No related posts.
Here’s the First Commandment for the Study of Internet Law: What the Internet was is not what the Internet shall always be. A few more stories echoing the last post’s theme: France’s Constitutional Council rejected the legislature’s attempt to thwart digital piracy by terminating Internet access for alleged illegal downloaders. Under the legislative proposal “a [...]
It has been a question of when, not if, Congress would allow the states to tax Internet sales that until now have been beyond their reach. The weak economy is converging the forces represented by the National Conference of State Legislatures, who’ve been pushing Congress for such taxing authority for years, and the Streamlined Sales [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
As reported by Law.com last week Target Corp. settled a federal class action lawsuit brought by The National Federation of the Blind, who claimed that Target’s website was inaccessible to the blind in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. At issues was Target’s failure to code its website to enable use of keyboards and [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog relays news of a Belgian legal ruling that eBay is not liable for sale of counterfeit Lancome perfumes, holding “that eBay is a passive provider of ‘host’ services, as that term is defined in a European Community policy directive, and that it’s therefore entitled to more legal leeway than [...]
I’m not the only one who is underwhelmed by Cuil (“cool”–the name by itself is trouble), the new search engine that says it is “faster,” “bigger,” and “better” than Google. This from today’s Globe: “[B]y the end of the site’s first day, many bloggers and journalists seemed to have found something to dislike, whether it [...]