Author Archives: John DiGiacomo

Is Your eCommerce Business Ready for In-House Counsel? | RSS.com Is Your eCommerce Business Ready For In-House Counsel? Eric: Hello and welcome to May It Please The Internet, Revision Legal’s podcast where we talk about all kinds of eCommerce and business and legal related items. I’m Eric Misterovich. I’m joined today by Chris Carol. Chris, […]

If you are producing, minting or dropping non-fungible token products, investing in an NFT business or thinking about buying an NFT, you need an experienced NFT attorney and NFT law firm. Blockchain ensures uniqueness and singularity, but you need top-tier legal counsel for the other aspects of the asset. Call us here at Revision Legal […]

Digital defamation — also called online defamation and internet defamation — is a serious legal issue that can get the defamer sued. Most internet defamation is libel. That is written defamation. But, given the prevalence of podcasts and video uploads to social media and internet platforms, online defamation can also be slanderous — that is […]

If your business is thinking about offering online sweepstakes for marketing and to drive business, you will need an experienced Sweepstakes Law Firm to help. Internet sweepstakes are fun and exciting, but because the “internet goes everywhere,” your business will have to comply with the federal laws and the laws in every State that govern […]

Reverse domain name hijacking (“RDNH”) is defined as bad faith use of ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (“UDRP”) policies and procedures with an intent to coerce a domain name owner to transfer the domain name. ICANN is a not-for-profit organization that governs domain name registration. UDRP proceedings are arbitration proceedings where a person or […]

Last month, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) denied a collection of trademark applications trying to register the word FUCK for various goods and services. The applicant for those trademarks, Erik Brunetti, had already won a case at the United States Supreme Court that allowed him to register the mark FUCT. In Iancu v. […]

In December of 2021, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued some long-awaited updates to their processes and procedures that make it easier to challenge abandoned trademarks and make it faster to get marks registered. Cancelling unused trademarks The USPTO has created two brand new types of administrative proceedings to challenge trademarks that […]

Registering copyrights for websites can be a bit tricky. The reason is that the U.S. Copyright Office does not recognize a website as a “copyrightable” work of authorship. That is, the Copyright Office distinguishes between the website — as a whole — from its content. The content of websites is fully copyrightable (assuming that the […]

Misappropriation of publicity involves the unauthorized use of someone’s name, likeness, and/or identifiable personality traits without authorization. A lawsuit can be filed against someone or a business for doing this. Misappropriation of publicity is similar to lawsuits that can be filed for misappropriation of name and likeness. The difference is that, in most states, misappropriation […]

DMCA stands for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). One of the most important features of the DMCA is that it provides a “safe harbor” for website owners against being sued for copyright violations when users, commenters, and posters upload copyrighted material onto a website. For example, assume you run a website and one of […]