When it comes to accommodating their customers, online entities lacking brick-and-mortar storefronts don’t face the same regulations as physical businesses. While they have no need for access ramps and handicapped-reserved parking spaces, must online businesses still provide special accessibility to those with disabilities?
For some time now, little case law has addressed the issue. In 2006, [...]
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Many people that use the internet lie. *gasp* This may come as a shock to a few, but it is the sad truth of the online world. Further complicating matters, there is little that anyone can do to stop it. Rhode Island, who once had a law that imposed a fine [...]
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Any college or graduate student knows that a new semester of classes means a new semester of paying sky-high prices for textbooks. Since costly books are not very conducive to an “in-school” budget, students instead often buy used books from upperclassmen or make photocopies if the professor places a textbook [...]
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Earlier this month, the United States Anti-Doping Agency informed Lance Armstrong that it intends to bring formal doping charges against him. Charged with policing drug use in sports, the USADA’s move could cost the former cycling champion all seven of his Tour de France titles. Armstrong maintains that he “never doped,” but the charges have [...]
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Defining Tetris, how courts look at gaming clones. Oracle agrees to “zero” damages award against Google, considers its chances on appeal. Judge Posner throws out Apple/Motorola patent infringement suit stating that neither side could actually prove damages. FunnyJunk’s lawyer speaks out about his legal [...]
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It is no secret that the internet has made access to information both widespread and easy. This includes both the passive and active personal information that is accessible online. Websites like Spokeo allow you to zoom in on your neighbors’ homes, find out the names of their family members, and even get an [...]
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We have all been warned that potential employers will Google our names when making hiring decisions. However, most of us probably have failed to realize that employers receive help with this type of researching. Fortunately, the help must abide by certain laws when providing such services.
This month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [...]
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Remember that embarrassing picture you posted on Facebook after a night out with your friends? The one that you forgot about, rediscovered seven years later, broke out in a cry of terror, and immediately deleted that part (or parts) of yourself from your page? Seeing the picture vanish, you sat back in your chair, and [...]
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Last Friday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski sent a proposal to his fellow commissioners suggesting that the FCC reevaluate the mobile phone emissions standards it set in 1996. In order for Chairman Genachowski’s proposal to be officially released to the public for comment, a majority of the FCC’s commissioners will [...]
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Recently, savvy political forecasters, political activists, and entrepreneurs looking to make a quick buck have started snatching up domain names likely to be used by 2020 presidential candidates. For example, an online book publisher recently registered Pelosi2020.com and HarryReid2020.com, while another computer programmer registered Biden2020.com and, perhaps more regrettably, Edwards2020.com.
Those [...]
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