March 7th 2008
The President sank the committee charged with keeping the War on Terrorism on the right side of civil rights. Now he desperately wants to prevent the courts from keeping phone companies on the right side of Executive Power and privacy. Steven Colbert pokes fun at the Protect America Act – which, as the name suggests, allows […]
March 6th 2008
Yesterday’s New York Times reported the US Treasury has closed down dozens of websites operated by Steve Marshall, a British travel agent living in Spain. Mr. Marshall’s websites, such as BonjourCuba, promote Cuban vacations to Europeans. But that was enough for him to be added to Treasury’s list of Specially Designated Nationals, which is the business equivalent of a […]
March 5th 2008
Updated: May 4, 2008 While Federal CAN-SPAM is perhaps the most well-known online marketing law, individual states also regulate online business practices. The Federal law is written with provisions which preempt state action, so the federal act is the main law, while states extend its reach, or add to it provisions as side orders extend an […]
March 3rd 2008
What is CAN-SPAM? The name CAN-SPAM is an acronym from the original bill’s full name: Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003. Its purpose was to set the first national standards for sending commercial e-mail, and to limit the bulk sending of unsolicited email. The law requires the Federal Trade Commission […]
March 1st 2008
Judge Jeffrey White has reversed his decision requiring the site’s domain registrar to direct traffic away from the site’s US domain. Users quickly discovered the site maintains mirror sites around the world, so the court order likely only increased the site’s traffic. The judge issued an order to restore the domain yesterday at 5pm. Judge White […]
March 1st 2008
It was fantastic being with over 800 email marketers in Miami last week. They’ve posted some kind words on my talk about B2B email (see point #9 of their event wrap-up). We endured several hours of Florida’s massive power blackout, which resulted in intimate presentations in dim rooms, and the occasional impulse to gather around battery […]
February 29th 2008
The FCC’s recent hearing in Cambridge on broadband network management practices had a group of unusual participants. Comcast admitted to paying people from the street who did not know about the hearing to fill the auditorium’s seats. They arrived en masse some 90 minutes before the hearing began and occupied almost every available seat, upon […]
February 27th 2008
FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin, acknowledged that broadband network operators have a legitimate need to manage the data flowing over their networks. But he said that “does not mean that they can arbitrarily block access to particular applications or services.” So, what is “reasonable” and what is “arbitrary”? That was the question in Cambridge on Monday. […]
February 25th 2008
Corynne McSherry and Eric Goldman have posted a joint warning about proposals being considered by the the Trademark Litigation subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s IP Section. Several expert sources (quoted below) have already written about this, and I add some thoughts to theirs after that.
February 23rd 2008
When you type a phrase like “Ford models” into a search engine, you aren’t necessarily searching for the Ford Motor Company. You may be searching for information from news sources to learn if Ford tires still catch fire. If that were the case, you’d probably want an disinterested analysis from outside the company. Or you […]
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