Category: Internet Law

    Gift cards are now under scrutiny with respect to whether they must be compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”). See Bloomberg opinion piece here. Among other things, the ADA bans discrimination against the disabled in “places of public accommodation.” In this way, the statute entitles everyone to the “full and equal […]

The number of companies or individuals who sell their products on Amazon has increased exponentially in the last few years.  As Amazon has grown in power, so have its sellers.  Total profits continue to sky-rocket and third-party sellers are making millions of dollars every day.  All of Amazon’s third-party sellers, responsible for more than half […]

 John DiGiacomo: Hey everyone. My name is John DiGiacomo, I’m an attorney with Revision Legal and I want to talk to you this Friday about something that is new from Facebook. It is the Commerce & Ads IP tool and the purpose of this tool is to allow brand owners, typically trademark owners to search […]

In an effort to combat counterfeiting on its platform, Facebook has announced a new IP reporting tool, the Facebook Commerce and Ads IP Tool. The Commerce and Ads IP Tool allows trademark owners who have been accepted into the program to search in ads, Marketplace posts, and group sale posts to identify any content that […]

John Di Giacomo: Hey everyone, this is John Di Giacomo. I’m an attorney with Revision Legal, and I want to talk today a little bit about what is going on with these ADA accessibility lawsuits. A lot of our friends in the eCommerce world are complaining of letters that they have received from companies purporting […]

 John Di Giacomo: Hey, everyone. My name is John Di Giacomo. I’m an attorney with Revision Legal. We are an internet law firm, and we handle a lot of Amazon stuff. And today, I want to talk to you about three reasons you shouldn’t make Amazon your only sales channel.   John Di Giacomo: […]

Imagine a U.S. prosecutor is investigating a criminal matter and needs to obtain data or information stored in a suspect’s smartphone application. The problem is, the app was developed by a small tech startup in Denmark. In order to obtain access to the relevant information, the prosecutor would need to issue a MLAT subpoena to […]

When is comes to website accessibility, there is a difference between a website that is accessible and one that is ADA-compliant, and that difference can have a huge impact on a business. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a law that mainly regulates accessibility for business, government entities, and more. Although the ADA does […]

For domestic criminal investigations, law enforcement often wants to gain access to data that is stored beyond its borders. The problem is that data access across borders is sometimes not in harmony with international human rights agreements and the data protection rules of specific nations. To allow criminal law enforcement operations to access communication data […]

Hi everyone. My name is John Di Giacomo and I am an attorney and a partner with Revision Legal, which is an internet and intellectual property law firm. And in that role I represent a lot of service providers. These service providers range from software as a service providers, app makers, social network owners, and […]