As noted in our earlier post, Internet Law Center Joins Amicus Brief Opposing Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, this firm joined with firms across the country to support the efforts of law firms targeted by President Trump through punitive executive orders. We signed on to amicus briefs on behalf of Jenner & Block, Wilmer Hale…
In the past decade, California has adopted the nation’s strongest privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) (“CCPA”). California authorities estimate that California businesses have spent over $55 billion in initial compliance costs. A small but growing group of law firms are trolling…
Last week, I appeared on the Ready Living Podcast with host Andrea Weckerle to address the question of whether Is the Law Keeping Up With Tech? In this podcast, I talked about a wide range of issues, from the shielding of online platforms from legal liability, the absence of a federal anti-doxing law, and AI…
In May 2024, the Justice Department, along with 40 states, sued Live Nation Entertainment and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for monopolization where Live National controlled around 60 percent of concert promotions at major U.S. venues and Ticketmaster controlled 80 percent of primary ticketing at major concert venues. After Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010, Live…
When I was in law school at Georgetown, I worked part of that time as a Legislative Law Clerk at Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan’s Washington office. On Constitution Day (Sept. 17) one year, the senior partners called everyone to their main conference for a toast to the document that made their profession possible as guardians…
Mickey Krieger was a friend and mentor who served as Of Counsel to this firm on trademark matters for several years. He died on October 25th after a battle with esophageal cancer. His death came less than three weeks after Raun Burnham, who worked for many years with the firm as a trademark paralegal, lost…
In May, the Internet Law Center announced a somewhat bittersweet milestone — our first retirement. “After fifteen years of helping this firm as a legal assistant with a specialty in trademark filings, Raun MacKinnon Burnham has taken her final bow.” Sadly, Raun’s retirement was cut short by a terminal diagnosis of neuroendocrine cancer this past…
In a rare moment of bi-partisanship, 42 Attorneys General support warning labels on social media platforms. This comes at a time when Australia is considering banning children under 12-14 from using social media and schools are restricting cell phone using . We, the attorneys general of the 42 undersigned states, write in support of the…
In two years the Internet Law Center will celebrate its 20th year. This year, however, the firm is celebrating a somewhat bittersweet milestone — our first retirement. After fifteen years of helping this firm as a legal assistant with a specialty in trademark filings, Raun MacKinnon Burnham has taken her final bow. According to SevenReflections.com,…
I was excited to return to the California Lawyers Association’s IP Section’s IP and Emerging Technologies Conference (formerly IP and the Internet Conference). I have spoken at this conference many times and, when I was on the IP Section Executive Committee, I ran the 2016 conference in San Francisco. This year I spoke on the…
I represent Claire Contreras (aka Maharlika) who is a Filipino-American video blogger in Southern California and outspoken critic of the current administration of Philippines President Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos, Jr. She has been sued for defamation by a Filipino designer with close ties to the Marcos family and today we filed a motion under California’s…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports that text message scams cost $330 million in losses in 2022. Being alert to scams and educating employees about them can protect your company, your employees, and your data from catastrophic consequences. In 2022, the FTC indicated that these were the top text message scams: #1: #1: Copycat Bank…
The report explains: Generative AI models have received significant attention and scrutiny due to their potential harms, such as risks involving privacy, misinformation, copyright, and non-consensual sexual imagery. This report focuses on privacy issues and relevant policy considerations for Congress. Some policymakers and stakeholders have raised privacy concerns about how individual data may be used…
Under the European Data Directive and its successor, the General Data Protection Regulation, data of a European subject may be transferred out of the EU only via an approved international framework or through approved Standard Contract Clauses (SCC) contained in Data Protection Agreements or binding corporate rules approved by the relevant data protection authority. Beginning…
Cyber Report 