Category: Internet Law

When a level of success has been achieved by eSports celebrities and talent, attention must turn to protecting personal and family assets. One possibility is creating and maintaining what is called a “Loan-Out Company.” In various forms, these have long been used by celebrities in the movie, music, and sports industries. In this article, the […]

Many Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) businesses have automatic renewal provisions in their contracts. There are obvious advantages to these provisions, such as reliable cash flow and avoiding the employee, managerial, administrative, and other costs associated with repeated contract renewal negotiations. However, SaaS businesses must be aware of State and federal automatic renewal statutes and their requirements. The […]

Many States have recently enacted consumer data protection statutes. Indeed, at this point, almost half of the U.S. States now have such a statute. In reviewing the most recently enacted statutes, one trend that can be seen is the increasing focus on defining the word “consent” to exclude any sort of agreement/consent obtained “through the […]

The Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) has now gone into effect in the European Union. Implementation of the AI Act will be phased in over three years or so, allowing businesses time to evaluate their AI systems and create compliance policies and programs. The purpose of the AI Act is to regulate the use of […]

As discussed in Part One of this series, the Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) has now gone into effect in the European Union. In Part One of this series, the Internet Law Attorneys at Revision Legal summarized the applicability of the AI Act, some exemptions from coverage, and the effective date timetable. In Part Two, […]

The Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) has now gone into effect in the European Union. In Part One of this series, the Internet Law Attorneys at Revision Legal summarized the applicability of the AI Act, some exemptions from coverage, and the effective date timetable. Part Two summarized the Act’s enforcement mechanisms, risk-level framework, and banned […]

The use of social media influencers is now a well-established marketing technique. A variation on the idea — now becoming a substantial marketing trend — is creating and using virtual influencers. Virtual influencers are hyper-realistic, human-looking social media influencers who are designed to act and sound like the “real thing.” These creations are also called […]

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is a set of regulations issued by the European Union (“EU”) that provides legal protection for consumer personal data. The GDPR applies to all nations and countries that are part of the EU and EU economic areas (Iceland, Lichtenstein, and Norway). This includes nearly every country in Europe and […]

In 2023, California enacted a social media content moderation law commonly known as AB 587. The law has been codified at Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22675 et seq. and has no specific statutory name. We will refer to the law as “AB 587” herein. Shortly after enactment, the company formerly known as Twitter […]

On May 9, 2024, Maryland passed its version of a comprehensive consumer data privacy statute called the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (“MODPA”). Like all similar statutes, the purpose of the MODPA is to protect consumer data that is collected from online businesses and websites used for various purposes, such as completing sales transactions and […]