Posted April 20, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the North Carolina Department of Revenue, seeking to block the state’s demand for the “name and address of virtually every North Carolina resident who has purchased anything from Amazon since 2003, along with records of what each customer purchased and how much they paid.” Amazon says in its complaint, that in December North Carolina requested information on sales to customers in the state between August 1, 2003, and February 28,2010, as part of its audit. The company said it turned over information to the sate to meet the request, including product codes for every item purchased. Amazon said it did not provide the “name, address, phone number, email address or other personally identifiable information of any customer.” Amazon said it has “fully cooperated” with North Carolina, but it objects to turning over its customer’s personal information. In the filing Amazon added, “the DOR has no business seeking to uncover the identity of Amazon’s customers who purchased expressive content, which makes up the majority of the nearly 50 million products sold to North Carolina residents during the audit period, let alone associating customers’ names and addresses with the specific books, music, and video content that they have purchased during the past seven years.” Last year, North Carolina passed a law that required out-of-sate retailers to collect sales tax in the state if they have marketing affiliates. Amazon responded by ending its affiliate program in North Carolina and currently does not collect sales tax in the state.
Tags: 50 million, Amazon, carolina, collect-sales, december-north, expressive content, Legal, name and address, names and addresses, north carolina, said-it-turned, sales tax, seven years, specific, virtually-every
Posted April 16, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click With all of the struggles and controversies surrounding the news industry these days, there is a lot of confusion out there about what falls under fair use and what doesn’t. The more savvy bloggers who have been in the game for a while usually have a better grasp on the concept, but there are still plenty of others who aren’t so well versed. After all, anyone can start a blog, and not everyone comes from a news or legal background. Do you every worry about quoting major media sources?
Tags: best practices, fair, fair use, first-amendment, law school, Legal, little pieces, michael donaldson, origins, pat aufderheide, People, Social, webpronews videos
Posted April 15, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click Today, another nine exhibits from the Viacom-YouTube were released, and while Google will no doubt get around to spinning the documents its own way, Viacom has already had a go.
Tags: before-google, business model, copyright policy, enabler, Eric Schmidt, excerpt-comes, from-the-viacom, Legal, nature, sergey brin, user experience, viacom youtube, viral-premium, youtube
Posted April 14, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click Quite often, a Yahoo loss works out to be a Google win, and it would come as no surprise to see the second company make the first fight its own legal battles.
Tags: cloud computing, computer disk, correct approach, department, doj, electronic storage, google yahoo, Internet, Legal, reputation, Review and Story, Technology
Posted April 13, 2010 by cgseo under under
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Pay-Per-Click San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has announced, social network Tagged, has agreed to pay a fine of $650,000 for sending millions of deceptive emails in a 2009 campaign to boost its membership. “Whether you’re doing business on Main Street or in cyber space, you can’t deceive the customer,” said District Attorney Harris. According to the District Attorney’s Office, Tagged sent 40-60 million deceptive emails that falsely stated that a member of the social network had sent the recipient a photo or private message. Before the recipient could access the photo or message they were required to register with the site giving Tagged access to the users email contact list. Tagged repeated the process by sending the same misleading email to the recipient’s email contacts. Many consumers later learned Tagged had sent bogus emails in their names to all the people in their contact list. “We cannot in the name of aggressive marketing allow social networking sites and other tech companies to use unfair practices that breech our trust, invade our privacy and tarnish our good names,” said DA Harris . In addition to ordering Tagged to pay $650,000 in penalties and costs, the company must also put in place a set of safeguards for future business practices. Tagged must provide clear disclosures and get the consumer’s consent before sending any email in the consumer’s name to people in the contact list.
Tags: attorney, consumers-later, customer, cyber space, Kamala Harris, Legal, office, Review and Story, safeguards, street, the-recipient, unfair practices