by Kathy Ossian | Jan 19, 2016 | IT Law Alerts, Link
The practice of crowdfunding involves raising small amounts from a large number of people, generally via the Internet. This type of fundraising, whether by businesses or individuals, has been largely unregulated, but that will soon change. Security and Exchange...
by Kathy Ossian | Jan 4, 2016 | IT Law Alerts, Link
Organically created by Twitter users to categorize messages, hashtags have become popular to mark keywords or topics for easy searchability on social media and beyond. Last year, half the Superbowl ads featured hashtags, While many companies use their trademarks and...
by Kathy Ossian | Dec 15, 2015 | IT Law Alerts, Link
The Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) is a federal law enacted in 1988. The same year, Michigan passed a Video Rental Privacy Protection Act (“MI-VRPA”). Both laws were primarily intended to protect consumers’ privacy when renting videotapes, a popular pastime in...
by Kathy Ossian | Dec 1, 2015 | IT Law Alerts, Link
In March, 2014, a class of plaintiffs sued Western Union in federal court in Illinois. The plaintiffs claimed that they received unsolicited text messages to their cell phones from Western Union without their prior consent, in violation of the federal Telephone...
