Socially Aware

July 22, 2016 - First Amendment, Protected Speech, Live streaming, Cyberbullying, Disappearing Content, Privacy, Free Speech, Mobile, Litigation
Social Links: Twitter’s troll problem; Snapchat fat-shamer risks prosecution; a federal anti-revenge-porn law?
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Facebook Messenger joins the elite “one billion monthly users” club just four years after its release as a standalone app. A Canadian judge ordered a couple convicted of child neglect to post to all their social media accounts his decision describing their crime. Leslie
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July 21, 2016 - Privacy, Mobile, Litigation
Augmenting Reality: A Pokémon Go Business and Legal Primer
By: Aaron P. Rubin
We have become inured to the sight of people staring at their phones rather than engaging with one another or enjoying their real-life surroundings. But, over the past two weeks, enslavement to mobile devices rose to new levels, with smartphones and tablets actually propelling
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July 19, 2016 - Class Actions, E-Commerce, Terms of Use, Litigation
Controversial New Jersey Consumer Protection Law Creates a Potential “Gotcha” for E-Commerce Companies
By: Anthony M. Ramirez
If your company is involved in selling products or services to consumers in New Jersey over the web or through mobile apps, you’ll want to read this blog post. In what amounts to a feeding frenzy, plaintiffs’ lawyers are working overtime bringing class action
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July 15, 2016 - Patent, Live streaming, Privacy, UK, IP, Litigation
Social Links: Appeals court opinions show reach of anti-hacking law; a virtual reality sickness cure; intrigue at Vine
By: Aaron P. Rubin
The UK wants to use the blockchain to track the spending of welfare recipients. Some believe that a recent Ninth Circuit holding could turn sharing passwords into a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. And another Ninth Circuit opinion sided with
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July 08, 2016 - E-Commerce, Live streaming, Disappearing Content, Marketing, Privacy, Asia, Litigation
Social Links: Kids roll eyes as parents embrace Snapchat; teen sues Snapchat over sexual content; Snapchat to become less ephemeral with new “Memories” feature (plus some other news not involving Snapchat)
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Snapchat has caught on with “oldies” (that’s people 35 and older, FYI). Facebook Messenger is testing “Secret” mode, a feature that allows some messages to be read only by the recipient. A South Korean copy of Snapchat has taken off in Asia. Using social
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July 05, 2016 - Mobile, Litigation
App Developer Prevails in Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Shift to New Business Model
By: Claudia M. Vetesi
If you make available a service through a free app, and you subsequently decide to migrate users of that app to a paid subscription model, that shouldn’t create any problems, right? Well, app developer LogMeIn did just that, and became the target of a
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July 01, 2016 - Data Security, Cyberbullying, Marketing, Employment Law, Litigation
Social Links: Implications of Facebook’s algorithm change; branded emoji; free travel apps
By: Aaron P. Rubin
The Internet is abuzz over the Facebook algorithm change. Here are the implications for marketers and publishers and for regular users. U.S. Customs wants to start collecting the social media accounts for foreign travelers. Court: Woman fired for posting to her Facebook page that
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June 23, 2016 - Copyright, Litigation
The Kirtsaeng Opinion: Supreme Court Guidance on Attorneys’ Fees Awards in Copyright Cases
Recently, in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , the U.S. Supreme Court provided substantial guidance in an unsettled area of law by holding that, when deciding whether to award attorneys’ fees under 17 U.S.C. §505 , the Copyright Act’s fee-shifting provision, a
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June 16, 2016 - Privacy, Compliance, Litigation
California Court of Appeal Rules That State Attorney General’s Privacy Suit Over Fly Delta Mobile App Is Preempted
In the recently decided People ex rel. Harris v. Delta Air Lines , California’s Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed the dismissal of the State of California’s complaint against Delta Air Lines, Inc., which alleged that the company’s Fly Delta mobile application violated California’s privacy
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June 14, 2016 - E-Commerce, Terms of Use, Litigation
Terms and Conditions Buried in Easily Ignored Scroll Box Don’t Cut It, the Seventh Circuit Holds
By: Aaron P. Rubin
As we have noted before , if you want to increase the likelihood that your website terms of use are enforceable against users, you need to do two things. First, you need to display the terms to users in a conspicuous way, and second,
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Topic Archives: Litigation

Social Links: Twitter’s troll problem; Snapchat fat-shamer risks prosecution; a federal anti-revenge-porn law?

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Augmenting Reality: A Pokémon Go Business and Legal Primer

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Controversial New Jersey Consumer Protection Law Creates a Potential “Gotcha” for E-Commerce Companies

By: Anthony M. Ramirez

Social Links: Appeals court opinions show reach of anti-hacking law; a virtual reality sickness cure; intrigue at Vine

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: Kids roll eyes as parents embrace Snapchat; teen sues Snapchat over sexual content; Snapchat to become less ephemeral with new “Memories” feature (plus some other news not involving Snapchat)

By: Aaron P. Rubin

App Developer Prevails in Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Shift to New Business Model

By: Claudia M. Vetesi

Social Links: Implications of Facebook’s algorithm change; branded emoji; free travel apps

By: Aaron P. Rubin

The Kirtsaeng Opinion: Supreme Court Guidance on Attorneys’ Fees Awards in Copyright Cases

California Court of Appeal Rules That State Attorney General’s Privacy Suit Over Fly Delta Mobile App Is Preempted

Terms and Conditions Buried in Easily Ignored Scroll Box Don’t Cut It, the Seventh Circuit Holds

By: Aaron P. Rubin