Category: Internet Law

At the end of 2024, the Connecticut Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act (“CPDPA”) will become fully effective. In other articles related to the CPDPA, the Consumer Data Privacy Lawyers at Revision Legal have provided an overview of the Act and looked closer at what obligations the CPDPA imposes on controllers and processors of […]

Mergers and acquisitions involving e-commerce businesses require the legal assistance of lawyers with deep experience and success with e-commerce sale/purchase transactions. E-commerce M&As are unique because e-commerce business “space” has some unique features. Of course, there are many overlaps between standard business mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) and an e-commerce M&A. Thus, you need attorneys with […]

The State of Iowa joined a growing list of states that have enacted consumer data protection statutes. As of early 2024, 12 states have passed such legislation, and at least another dozen states are considering enacting their own version of these statutes. The Iowa version is called the “Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act” (“ICDPA”). See […]

As discussed in Part One of this series, Iowa has recently enacted a consumer data protection statute called the “Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act” (“ICDPA”). See here for the text of ICDPA. The Act comes into effect on January 1, 2025. In Part Two, the consumer data protection compliance lawyers at Revision Legal discuss what […]

As discussed in Parts One and Two of this series, Iowa has recently enacted a consumer data protection statute called the “Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act” (“ICDPA”). The Act comes into effect on January 1, 2025. Below, the consumer data protection compliance lawyers at Revision Legal discuss why the ICDPA can be seen as the […]

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 […]