Category: Internet Law

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing where an online business (merchant) uses third-party advertisers (affiliates) to advertise its products to potential internet customers. Affiliates use display advertising, e-mail, and paid search engine marketing to channel internet traffic to a merchant’s website or product. In return for the advertisements, businesses will compensate the affiliate […]

HOW THE JOBS ACT HAS BEEN INEFFECTIVE SO FAR   Crowdfunding has been a frequent topic on the National hot-stove with the recent passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which loosened many securities regulations imposed by the SEC. Of particular interest are the provisions of the Act aimed at making it simpler […]

If you have cable or satellite TV, then you are probably paying for channels that you either never watch or did not even know that you had.  This is because cable and satellite TV providers sell “bundles” of packages in their different subscription packages.  You buy a package, and those are the channels you get.  […]

The amount of digitally downloaded content is growing fast.  Apple currently has a tracker on its homepage in anticipation of hitting 50 billion downloaded apps.  In 2012, digitally downloaded games accounted for $5.9 billion in sales in the United States and now controls 40% of the video game market. We have previously discussed the potential […]

Prior to the advent of the Internet, it was significantly harder to distribute non-consentual adult photographs and videos. Physical photographs and video tapes could only be shown to a small group of people. The increase in the speed of communications, however, has brought with it new perils for women and men subject to non-consentual pornography, […]

Thanks to lower prices, the convenience of shopping from home, and the ability to read reviews from recent purchasers, more and more people are shopping online.  In fact, online retail sales are expected to reach $327 billion by 2016 in the United States alone.  One reason online retailers have lower prices than brick and mortar […]

Warner Brothers was sued for trademark infringement and copyright infringement by the creators of video-based internet memes Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat. These two videos have been viewed over 245,000,000 times, collectively. Keyboard Cat is a 54 second video uploaded to YouTube in 2007 that shows a cat playing a keyboard. Staring in the video, […]

Recently, the Michigan Court of Appeals rejected the request of Thomas M. Cooley Law School to reveal anonymous bloggers who have publicly criticized the school’s use of national rankings and graduate employment statistics. The controversy began when a former Cooley student created a blog called Thomas Cooley Law School Scam in order to critique some […]

The number of cybersquatting cases handled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) increased 5% in the last year to reach a record 2,884 filed cases. According to WIPO’s director general Francis Curry, the majority of the cybersquatting cases were filed in the areas of retail, fashion, banking, and finance. The United States was responsible […]

One of our favorite game development websites, Gamasutra, has a great interview with Dan Adleman, Nintendo’s liaison with independent developers. Adleman is best known for bringing World of Goo and the Bit.Trip series to the Nintendo Wii’s WiiWare. Adleman wants to convey the following to independent game developers: No PR campaign is needed to publish […]