Category: Internet Law

California’s new law concerning social media moderation content policies has gone into effect, and social media internet platforms should be producing their first reports in compliance with the legislation. The legislation is commonly called “Assembly Bill 587” (“AB 587”) and is an addition to California’s Business and Professions Code. AB 587 was not given a […]

The right of publicity is a general legal concept that includes rights related to name, image, and likeness. For celebrities, name, image, and likeness are valuable commodities that can be licensed for substantial personal revenue. The right of publicity has an important attribute: the ability to prevent others from using a person’s name, image, or […]

On 10 July 2023, the Commission of the European Union (“EU”) approved a new EU-US data privacy adequacy decision, officially launching what will now be called the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (“DPF”). For background, the EU created the world’s first personal data privacy regime in 2016 — which became effective in 2018 — called the […]

Software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) is, of course, very different from software-as-a-product. The latter is downloaded or comes on a disk in a box, comes with a licensing agreement, mostly involves a one-time payment, and is installed and hosted on the users’ networks and computers. SaaS, on the other hand, is a web-hosted software solution offered on a […]

With an Asset Purchase Agreement (“APA”) that involves substantial inventory being sold, provisions in the APA related to that inventory are crucial. The sale of an Amazon FBA business is generally an asset purchase type of agreement since a larger percentage of the value of Amazon FBA businesses is tied into their inventory and IP […]

E-commerce businesses must comply with advertising laws and regulations in the same manner as non-e-commerce businesses. The general rule with respect to advertising is that all advertising must be truthful and non-misleading. The rules and regulations apply to all forms of advertising, including types of “advertising” that might not fit the traditional definition. Thus, government […]

In May 2023, Tennessee enacted a consumer data/information protection statute called the Tennessee Information Protection Act (“TIPA”). See here for the text of the Act. In other articles, the consumer privacy and compliance lawyers here at Revision Legal have offered discussions of various aspects of the TIPA. In this article, we focus on the “NIST […]

In May 2023, Tennessee enacted a consumer data/information protection statute called the Tennessee Information Protection Act (“TIPA”). See here. In this article, the consumer privacy and compliance lawyers here at Revision Legal briefly survey the obligations imposed by the TIPA on businesses collecting and processing data related to Tennessee consumers. The focus of the TIPA […]

In May 2023, Tennessee enacted its version of a statute aimed at protecting information and data related to consumers and others. The statute is called the Tennessee Information Protection Act (“TIPA”). To date, about eleven States have enacted consumer data/information privacy statutes. The Tennessee version is the first of such statutes that omits the word […]

As discussed in related articles on our website, in May 2023, Tennessee enacted its version of a consumer data/information protection statute called the Tennessee Information Protection Act (“TIPA”). As of late 2023, about eleven States have enacted consumer data/information privacy statutes, and about a dozen more are contemplating such statutes. Revision Legal has written a […]