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May 15th, 2012 | Tags: facebook, Instagram, internet, IPO, Mark Zuckerberg, social media, Social networking | Category: General, Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Thehill.com: “The case of a Marine who is facing discharge for posting disparaging comments about President Obama on Facebook has renewed a debate about free speech rights for members of the military.” For more about the latest controversy in free speech issues, the entire article is here. ABA Journal: Citing “a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people’s Facebook profiles,” Facebook’s chief privacy officer warned in a Friday post on the social network’s website that the company could “initiate legal action” against employers who do so. The comment by Erin [...] ABA Journal: A Houston lawyer has taken a legal approach to a video posted on Facebook by three middle school students he accuses of defaming his daughter. First, lawyer Jason Medley notified school officials about the video and sent cease and desist letters to the three girls and their parents, the Houston Chronicle reports. The [...] ABA Journal: A company that buys life insurance policies and resells them to investors has sued a so-called Twittersquatter that used its name in sarcastic posts cheering mass disasters. Coventry First has filed a John Doe lawsuit against the person writing under the Twitter handle @conventryfirst, report PaidContent.org and Reuters. The complaint, filed in Philadelphia [...] June 14th, 2011 | Tags: Twittersquatter | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Classmates.com is accused of misleading consumers and has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a suit but did not admit any wrongdoing. November 12th, 2010 | Tags: Affinion, classmates, classmates.com, email, emails, fraud, law suit, litigation, Privacy, settlement, Social networking, social networks, Vertrue, Webloyalty | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Litigation (Non-Arizona), Social Media Law | Leave a comment National Law Journal: “Employers must address their use and misuse before, during and after an employee’s tenure. Social media are any type of Internet-based media created through social interaction in which individuals primarily produce, rather than consume, the content. In the workplace, the prevalent social media are video-sharing Web sites (YouTube), social networking [...] Law.com: “Soon after filing a class action last spring against the maker of a dietary supplement called Procera AVH, Thomas Clarke Jr., a partner in the San Francisco office of Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, uploaded a video on YouTube about the class action and talked to a television reporter for a news [...] November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: defamation, defamation lawsuit, youtube | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Litigation (Non-Arizona), Social Media Law | Leave a comment Social networking is here to stay, but its use may have legal consequences for employers and employees. This article discusses social networking in the workplace, including guidelines that employers should adopt. Law.com: “Imagine gaining access to a teenager’s diary. Confidentiality is violated when an outsider turns the pages. These days, those personal thoughts are more likely to be documented electronically on social networking sites rather than on paper. But the same level of confidentiality can exist if someone wants to restrict access to just [...] November 18th, 2009 | Tags: facebook | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Law.com: “Imagine a supervisor making an inappropriate remark to one of his direct reports in an after-hours conversation. If he made the comment verbally, and the employee then reported it to the supervisor’s employer, any resulting litigation would have involved the usual ‘he said, she said’ situation, in which lawyers would have challenged [...] November 18th, 2009 | Category: Employment Law, Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Digital Media Lawyer Blog: “A Tennessee trial court adopted a version of the ‘heavy’ Dendrite standard for permitting discovery of the identity of the anonymous poster of an allegedly defamatory blog. However, as interpreted by the trial court, this standard was not insuperable, and resulted in an order that the plaintiffs were entitled [...] Arizona Republic: “Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation. The American Civil Liberties Union, in a federal lawsuit filed last week on behalf of the girls, argues that Churubusco High School violated the girls’ free speech rights [...] October 31st, 2009 | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Litigation (Non-Arizona), Social Media Law | Leave a comment Social Networking and the Law: Attorney Megan Erickson’s second article in a series of articles that employers should consider when drafting an employee policy dealing with social media. I discussed some things an employer may want to think about before drafting social networking policies — including some things to keep in [...] October 28th, 2009 | Category: Employment Law, Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Social Networking and the Law: “Employers often want to know more about permissible or effective social networking policies for their employees. Of course, there’s no such thing as a ‘one size fits all’ social media policy for employers, but I think readers might find it helpful if we took some time to address [...] October 28th, 2009 | Category: Employment Law, Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Law.com: “Legal disputes over ‘fake’ Web sites and social media profiles seem to be a developing trend. . . . I have come across two other recent stories involving fake or impersonated Web sites. This post on the Social Networking and the Law blog discusses a lawsuit filed on Sept. 24, 2009 after [...] Citizens Media Law Project: “A Tennessee state court ruled earlier this month that plaintiffs Donald and Terry Keller Swartz are entitled to discover the identity of the anonymous blogger behind the Stop Swartz blog who published critical statements about them and encouraged readers to post information on their whereabouts and activities. In his [...] Arizona Republic: “It’s difficult to quantify the growth of online-bullying cases. Still, law-enforcement agencies worldwide have said they’re seeing an uptick in cyber-harassment cases involving social-networking sites, said Philip Rosenthal, a New York-based computer-crime expert with 20 years of law-enforcement experience.” October 25th, 2009 | Tags: cyber harassment, social networking sites | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment The National Law Journal: “Bosses who ‘friend’ their subordinates on social networking sites may seem warm and harmless, but they’ve got liability risk written all over them. So warn employment lawyers. Managers sending friend requests to staff via Facebook, Twitter and other sites constitute a growing trend in the workplace. And it’s one [...] October 23rd, 2009 | Category: Employment Law, Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Technology & Marketing Law Blog by Eric Goldman: “This is a really interesting legal dispute with an entirely predictable outcome for Facebook as a defendant. See my initial blog post on the matter. A half-dozen high school students participated in a private Facebook group that ridiculed one of their peers. This wasn’t a [...] Wired.com: “America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s [...] October 20th, 2009 | Tags: intelligence community, open source intelligence, spy agencies | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | One comment Law.com: “”SWAT teams rolling down 5th Ave. … Report received that police are nabbing anyone that looks like a protester. … Stay alert watch your friends!” Pennsylvania State Police arrested New York social worker Elliot Madison last month for being part of a group that posted messages like those on Twitter. The arrest [...] Law.com: “A court issued a protective order prohibiting Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tenn., from ‘telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with’ another Hendersonville woman, either ‘directly or indirectly.’ On Friday, Sept. 25, Jackson was ‘extremely shocked’ when police arrested her for allegedly violating the order. Authorities in Hendersonville say that Jackson was arrested [...] Wall St. Journal: “What Eliot Ness was to mobsters and Inspector Clouseau was to fictional jewel thieves, Brendan Wilhide is to Twitter. Yes, the popular social-networking tool now has an enforcer—public-relations specialist by day, Internet private eye by night. With more than one-third of the NBA, hundreds of NFL players and scores of [...] Citizen Media Law Project: “Disbarred Florida attorney and critic of the video game industry Jack Thompson, proceeding pro se, filed a complaint against Facebook, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on September 29, 2009. The Complaint asserts three counts against Facebook for Intentional Infliction of Emotional [...] October 5th, 2009 | Tags: facebook, right to privacy, social networks | Category: Social Media Law | Leave a comment Wired.com: “Proposed legislation demanding up to two years in prison for electronic speech meant to ‘coerce, intimidate, harass or cause substantial emotional distress to a person’ was met with little enthusiasm by a House subcommittee on Wednesday. Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-California) lobbied fellow lawmakers of a House Judiciary subcommittee to back her proposed [...] Times have changed. We all know the adage “think before your speak.” In the age of social media we now have “think before you tweet.” Millions of people are using social media like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to communicate. Sometimes, information displayed online can cause the author and/or website owner to become the [...] September 24th, 2009 | Tags: facebook, myspace, social media, social networks, twitter | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Arizona Republic: Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are great ways to communicate, but the legalities are uncertain when employers monitor or restrict what employees say about employers online. Valley attorneys say employers have the right to monitor and restrict employees’ social networking posts related to their business, [...] September 21st, 2009 | Tags: social networks | Category: Arizona Law, Employment Law, Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law | Leave a comment Attorneys William Coats and Jennifer Gossain wrote an article called “What Are You Doing Legally on Twitter?” that all Twitter-ers might want to read. Although Twitter is relatively new to the web, there have been lawsuits filed based on statements made in tweets. Despite being limited to 140 characters, a single tweet can [...] September 19th, 2009 | Tags: defamation, right to privacy, twitter | Category: Internet & Computer Law, Social Media Law, US Law | Leave a comment |
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