| 1 | Website Hacking, Viruses and Attacks A review of the legal issues raised in the US by various forms of "attack" that may be made against websites or internet users generally, focusing on hacking, viruses and unsolicited e-mails (or spamming). | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 2 | US Privacy and Data Security Law: Overview This Note provides an overview of prominent US privacy and data security laws relating to the collection, use, processing and disclosure of personal information. It summarizes key federal privacy and data security laws, certain state laws, with a focus on California and Massachusetts and the Mobile Marketing Association and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, two key industry-specific privacy and data security guidelines and requirements. | Practice Note: Overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Trademark Litigation: Online Consumer Surveys A Practice Note discussing the use of online consumer surveys in trademark disputes. It addresses important considerations for selecting, designing and conducting trademark surveys generally and online surveys in particular, including admissibility, respondent selection, universe requirements, stimuli requirements, validation, cost and time considerations. The Note also reviews recent court decisions assessing online surveys. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 4 | Social Media: A Quick Guide A brief description of social media categories and a list of principal social media websites and services. Descriptions of social media categories include blogs, social and business networking sites, digital media sharing sites, wikis, virtual worlds and MMORPGs. The descriptive list includes over 25 examples of principal social media websites and services. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 5 | Social Media Usage Toolkit Resources to assist in identifying the legal risks and potential rewards presented by company, employee and third party use of social media. | Practice Note: Overview | Maintained |
| 6 | Social Media Risks and Rewards A Practice Note discussing the legal risks associated with the use of social media. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 7 | Online Advertising and Marketing An overview of online advertising regulation in the US, focusing on the key legal issues to consider when planning an online advertising campaign. This Note is currently being updated to reflect the release of the FTC's revised online advertising disclosure guidelines and other recent developments in online advertising and marketing law. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 8 | Mobile App Privacy: The Hidden Risks A Practice Note discussing privacy considerations in the context of mobile applications (apps), including liability risks associated with mobile app information collection and practices for addressing those risks. This Note provides an overview of how mobile apps use technology to collect information about and track end users, identifying key differences between mobile apps and websites in terms of how they collect and store end-user information and end users' ability to control that collection and storage. It also discusses the legal framework governing mobile app privacy, including FTC rulemaking, guidance and enforcement actions. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Mobile App Development and Distribution A Practice Note discussing the issues involved in developing and distributing mobile applications (apps). In particular, this Note provides an overview of mobile apps, including the types of apps, the devices for which they are programmed and major platforms and distribution channels. It also discusses the app store framework, which is the most common channel for distributing downloadable mobile apps, and the legal issues to consider when developing mobile apps, including intellectual property, privacy and advertising. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 10 | Internet Brand Protection A Practice Note discussing the protection of trademark and other brand rights on the internet. The Note focuses on cybersquatting claims and remedies under ICANN's dispute resolution services and the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. The Note also addresses other online trademark issues including pop-up advertisements, keyword advertising and screenscraping. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 11 | Internet and E-mail Risk Toolkit Resources to help identify, manage and mitigate the legal and business risks associated with the operation and use of websites, e-mail, and other online media technology and applications. | Practice Note: Overview | Maintained |
| 12 | How the internet works An introductory note explaining what the internet is and how businesses can access and use it, with links to other practice notes for detailed discussion of the issues highlighted. | Practice Notes | 08-Dec-2009 |
| 13 | Employer Access to Social Media Accounts State Laws ... A Chart describing state legislation prohibiting private employers from asking employees and job applicants to provide access to their social media accounts and reveal usernames and passwords, with certain exceptions. | Practice Note: Overview | 15-May-2013 |
| 14 | Employee E-mail and Online Risk: Business Briefing A template briefing for an in house lawyer to give all nonunionized employees regarding work-related e-mail and online risk. Employers with unionized employees, who are covered by collective bargaining agreements, must consider additional factors that are outside the scope of this briefing (see Practice Note, Employee Handbooks: Best Practices: Collective Bargaining Obligations). Click here to download in Microsoft Word. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 15 | E-mail Marketing: CAN-SPAM Act Compliance A Note discussing the federal CAN-SPAM Act's requirements for commercial e-mails, its enforcement and best practices for compliance. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 16 | E-Commerce Payment Mechanisms A discussion of different schemes or mechanisms in the US for making payments online and the related legal issues that may be encountered by customers, traders and financial institutions engaged in online payments. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 17 | Domain names This note discusses the nature of domain names (electronic addresses for websites), the registration, transfer and resolution of disputes in relation to domain names, and the relationship between domain names and trade marks. These issues are considered in relation to generic top-level domains (gTLDs), and in relation to country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Note: This note does not reflect ICANN's generic top-level domain (gTLD) expansion program. For more information, see Article, Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Expansion | Practice Notes | 31-Jul-2009 |
| 18 | Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): Safe Harbors for ... This Note provides an overview of the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), also known as the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA). Under certain circumstances, the DMCA's safe harbor provisions protect online service providers from copyright infringement liability based on the actions of their users. This Note discusses the four safe harbors created by the DMCA, eligibility requirements for each safe harbor, and the DMCA's notice, takedown and counter-notice framework. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 19 | Cyber Attacks: Prevention and Proactive Responses This Note discusses common cyber attack scenarios and sets out actions that companies can take to prevent or respond to attacks, including developing a cyber attack response plan. It also addresses the chief compliance officer's role in preventing and containing attacks and law enforcement referrals, and civil and criminal actions companies can pursue against attackers. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 20 | Broadcasting, media and entertainment law in Russian ... A Q&A guide to media law in the Russian Federation. The country-specific Q&A looks at the following sectors: Film. TV (broadcast and internet). Publishing. Video games. Music. Sport. In each section, the Q&A guide considers a number of issues, such as a sector overview (including major companies, recent trends, and main trade bodies/associations, regulation and classification, legal protection and contractual structures, and areas of litigation). To compare answers across multiple jurisdictions, visit the Media Country Q&A tool. This Q&A guide is part of the PLC multi-jurisdictional guide to media law. For a full list of jurisdictional Q&As visit www.practicallaw.com/media-mjg. | Practice Notes | 01-Sep-2011 |
| 21 | Access to the internet A discussion of the different technologies that can be used to gain access to the internet, the main services that users are likely to require from internet service providers (ISPs), and the key issues which users should consider when contracting with ISPs for access to the internet. | Practice Notes | 30-Nov-2009 |