Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Something I’ve been predicting in Internet law for at least five years is happening. (Predict something long enough and you may eventually be correct. A friend put all of his money into cash after predicting the market’s collapse. In 1995.) A March 18th WSJ article titled States Pressure E-Tailers to Collect Sales Tax reports on [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Colorado recently amended its tax law to require Internet retailers to collect sales tax on sales to Colorado residents or give the state information about such sales so the state can collect use taxes from purchasers. Amazon responded by canceling its relationships with all Colorado-based participants in its associates program: “As a result of the [...]
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The music industry generated some news while was hobbling. The RIAA announced that it is dropping its campaign of mass lawsuits. The RIAA has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against over 35,000 people in the past five years for allegedly pirating copyrighted songs, a fact most college students know well. Most suits were settled for between [...]
I’ve noted recently (here and here) that New York changed its law to require out-of-state Internet retailers that receive customer referrals from in-state business to collect and remit NY sales taxes on transactions with New York residents. The law went into effect on Sunday June 1 and the NY Times reports that Amazon, among other [...]
Amazon has filed a lawsuit in a New York state trial court challenging New York’s recent law requiring Internet retailers to collect and remit sales taxes on sales to New York residents. According to an article in today’s NY Times the New York law redefines the nexus–the in-state presence–required for an out-of-state retailer to be [...]
Friday, November 30, 2007
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg’s youth–he’s 23–explains Facebook’s ham-fisted schemes to weave its users’ personal information into skeins of gold. I don’t believe his purposes are nefarious. As Facebook Beacon and Facebook Social Ads show, he does have a knack for letting dollar signs get ahead of his judgment. He is developing a skill for reversing field [...]
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The Software Information and Industry Association (SIIA) announced the Ten Most Significant eCommerce Developments of the Past Decade. They are: Google (Sept. 1998) Broadband Penetration of US Internet Users Reaches 50% (June 2004) eBay Auctions (Launched Sept. 1997) Amazon.com (IPO May 1997) Google Ad Words (2000) Open Standards (HTML 4.0 released – 1997) Wi-Fi (802.11 [...]