The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission gave disclosures made through social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter a conditional “thumbs up” in a Report of Investigation it released on April 2, 2013. Issuers of securities, the SEC stated, can use social media to disseminate material, nonpublic information without having to make any other disclosures… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Internet RSS FeedNo “Internet Exceptionalism” For the Second Circuit in Attorney Advertising Ethics Ruling
Posted in First Amendment, Internet"Internet exceptionalism" is the notion that the Internet is a special and unique communications medium to which special rules should apply. In the legal field, that notion is manifested in legal rules that have been crafted by judges, legislatures and regulators for application in situations involving Internet communications. In some cases the creation of an… Continue Reading
ICANN Release Draft Guidebook for New Top Level Domain Applications
Posted in InternetThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that is responsible for the allocation of Internet domain names and IP addresses, is about to launch a new program that will permit organizations to create and operate generic top-level domains (“gTLD”s) (e.g., .com, .net, etc.). Last week, ICANN released a draft version of… Continue Reading
Parker v. Search Engines, Part II: Challenge to Search Engine Caching Dismissed on Most (But Not All) Grounds
Posted in InternetThe practice of search engine crawling and caching of Web site content has infrequently been litigated. (The Perfect 10 case is a significant exception.) This may be because most Web site operators want their content to be indexed and available on search engines. Those Web site operators that do not want their content copied… Continue Reading
Things We Are Running Out of Besides Oil: IP Addresses
Posted in InternetIt’s a shock to see gasoline routinely priced at over $4 a gallon, the consequence, many think, of ignoring impending scarcity of a limited resource over a long period of time. The same may be true of Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses), the number strings that identify specific locations on the Internet. How many unique… Continue Reading