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[] To ensure delivery to your mailbox please add domain @lexology.com to your safe senders list [View in Browser]( [Lexology]( [My Account]( | [About]( | [Search Archive (1,027,545 articles)]( [North America](#northamerica) | [Global](#global) [USA] [North America] Internet & Social Media #top [Google hits back at Incognito allegations]( Compliance Analysis PRO Compliance Google has moved to dismiss claims that it misled users about the way it collects data through its Chrome browser’s Incognito mode. [US administration takes on Chinese social media]( Arent Fox LLP President Trump recently signed an Executive Order (EO) banning 'transactions' - which have yet to be identified by the US Department of Commerce -… [FTC Staff Perspective Paper Offers Key Takeaways on Loot Box Workshop]( Keller and Heckman LLP More than 160 million Americans play video games. Originally designed as single-use purchases for consoles or computers, video games are now… [Fourth Circuit Dramatically Expands Scope of Personal Jurisdiction for Website Operators]( Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP Courts have had to determine, among the many challenges brought by the rise of the Internet, when a website operator is subject to personal… [Epic Games Moves Battleground From Mobile Phones to Courtroom With Antitrust Attacks on Apple and Google]( Winston & Strawn LLP Epic Games, Inc., developer of the wildly popular online video game Fortnite, has kicked off a real-life battle royale with Apple and Google over… [The Ethics of Social Media “Friendship”]( Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Social media information that reflects a person’s physical condition, activity level, and emotional state is a particularly valuable source of… [OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Parity commitments extended by Expedia and Booking.com; Google adds pandemic details to travel search]( Foster Garvey While the European Commission continues its re-examination of Expedia’s and BOOKING.com’s parity practices, both platforms recently announced their… [Fifth Circuit Reels In NMFS' Aquaculture Permitting Program in Gulf of Mexico]( K&L Gates LLP The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) does not have the authority to… [Student-athletes & nil: best practices for brand protection]( Nexsen Pruet The topic of student-athlete name, image and likeness (NIL) has commanded national attention and has been the topic of much heated debates in recent… [FCC’s 5G Fast Plan Gains Momentum]( Nossaman LLP 5G provides reliable communications, enables near real-time interactions and has much faster data speed. 5G also provides the platform for the… [Twitter to SEC: FTC Steamed Over Violated Consent Decree]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Company estimates potential quarter-billion-dollar loss… [Genealogy Giant Tagged for Iffy Auto-Renewal Policies]( Baker & Hostetler LLP Ancestry.com tagged extra charges on to "free trial," say consumers… [Do most retailers take the position that the use of third party behavioral advertising cookies is, or is not, the “sale” of personal information?]( Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Retailers are divided about whether the use of third party behavioral advertising cookies do, or do not, constitute the sale of personal information… [TikTok Files Suit to Prevent U.S. Ban of its Mobile Application]( Thompson Hine LLP On August 24, 2020, TikTok Inc. and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, Ltd., filed suit in the Central District of California against President Donald J… [After Lawsuit is Filed, Instagram Deletes Account Promoting Parties at Arizona State University]( Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC The Associated Press reported that Instagram deactivated an "asu_covid.parties" account that appeared to promote unsafe parties at Arizona State… [“Hold Up, Wait A Minute” D.C. Circuit Rejects Copyright Board’s Categorical Exclusion of Internet Transmissions from Grandfathered Royalty Rates]( Proskauer Rose LLP On August 18 the D.C. Circuit directed the Copyright Royalty Board (“CRB”) to reconsider what royalties are owed to artists by Music Choice for its… [On the Barefoot Contessa, Peppermint Bark, and the Volitional Conduct Requirement for Copyright Infringement]( Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC I don't think it is possible to love Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, more than I do. I love her recipes: they are relatively easy to execute… [RMLC and SESAC Agree to Extend Current License Agreement for Commercial Radio - Music Licensing Update for Radio]( Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP The Radio Music License Committee and SESAC yesterday announced an extension of the terms of the royalty agreement that is currently in place between… [Muting Misinformation: Can Congress legislate a solution?]( Thompson Coburn LLP Existing U.S. laws don’t prevent misinformation on the Internet, as we have seen, nor do social media companies keep it off their services on their… [Back to School Special: COPPA Consent in the COVID Era]( Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP In the current pandemic era, kids are spending more time online, be it for school or entertainment. Companies are therefore gearing up for increased… [The essential 21st century mdu amenity—highspeed broadband service]( Keller and Heckman LLP MDU developers and owners know they are on frontline of the broadband revolution. During the pandemic, working from home with expansive of use of… [EDNY Refuses to Dismiss on § 230 Grounds in “Shitty Media Men” Defamation Case]( New York Morrison & Foerster LLP In Elliott v. Donegan, a federal district court in New York held that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act does not warrant the dismissal of… [U.S. Companies Should Think Twice Before Inflicting A Cookie Banner On Their Website Visitors.]( California Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth Europe's "Cookie Law" is primarily responsible for the cookie banner blight afflicting everyone's web surfing. Even if a U.S. business is subject to… [To Embed or Not to Embed?: A New Challenge to Embedding Images From Social Media]( Squire Patton Boggs Embedding content from a social media site in one’s website initially seemed to be a safe harbor from a copyright infringement claim. In 2007, the… [5 Common Root Causes of Uncontrolled Online Sales]( Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP Many companies will discover that a particular business practice is creating the economic environment that facilitates their product diversion and… [Back to School Special: Recordings, Photos, Kids, and Parental Consent]( Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP In this remote era, companies are increasingly being approached by their business teams with ideas about products and services that involve video or… [In brief: registration and use of domains at the ccTLD registry in USA]( Downing IP Law This article looks at the registration and use of domains at the ccTLD registry in USA. 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