Category: Revision Legal

After a European Union court outlawed the Safe Harbour laws last year, the EU and United States have been scrambling to put a new system in place. On Tuesday February 2, EU and US negotiators reached an agreement regarding the transfer of p…

Since the enactment of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”), many online service providers have decided that they carry absolute immunity from defamation claims. Is this really the case though? ComplaintsBoard.com and RipOffReport.com are two service providers that offer a forum for unhappy customers to post about poor experiences they have with companies. […]

Unhappy consumers take to the Internet and social media all the time. It’s commonplace today for a person irritated by a flight delay to post on Twitter, or someone that received poor service in a restaurant to leave a damning review on a consumer based website. But, what happens when the complaint lodged against the service provider isn’t true? The answer is that you get sued, and the First Amendment won’t protect you.

Anonymity is a blessing and a curse, allowing us to hide behind our computers and electronic devices, creating whatever image and identity we wish to portray. “Screen names” offer a form of protection to Internet users, so when an anonymous defamatory post is made, tracking down the user can feel like an almost impossible task.

Semiconductor chips have become a popular and widely used product in almost all electronics today. Considering how ubiquitous these products are, it might be surprising to learn that the owners of these chips are extended large amounts of protection ov…

“We are in the era of big data. With a smartphone now in nearly every pocket, a computer in nearly every household, and an ever-increasing number of Internet-connected devices in the marketplace, the amount of consumer data flowing throughout the economy continues to increase rapidly.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, so we didn’t […]

PTG Nevada, LLC, a movie producer and developer, recently filed a copyright infringement complaint in the Eastern District of Michigan (PTG Nevada, LLC v Does 1-5, Case No. 2:16-cv-10125). A copy of the complaint can be found here, but to summarize: PTG Nevada has filed suit against five John Doe defendants (Does 1-5) who they […]

Imagine this: Shortly after receiving notice from the US Patent & Trademark Office that your trademark application has been approved, you get another letter in mail. This letter offers to register your newly acquired trademark with US Customs &…

The Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares (Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Possessed by Private Persons) is Mexico’s federal law that allows Mexico’s Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (IFAI) to regulate and enforce data privacy and security.   The law, which was […]

In 2005, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a forum for 21 countries in the Pacific Rim that works to establish free trade in the region, published a Privacy Framework to promote the “development of effective privacy protections that avoid barriers to information flows, ensure continued trade, and economic growth in the APEC region.”