Socially Aware

December 23, 2014 - FDA Regulations
Post Wisely
From our sister blog, MoFo Tech : Two FDA Guidelines Help Life Sciences Companies Solve Social Media Conundrums Social media presents new challenges for life sciences companies. Companies that post about their products on space-constrained social media platforms such as Twitter or Facebook don’t
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December 18, 2014 - Online Promotions
What Are the Rules of the Advergame in the UK?
Advergames are online video games that are created in order to promote a brand, product or organization by immersing a marketing message within the game. They are typically accessed via an organization’s website or app, or via a social media platform. Advergames are not
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December 18, 2014 - Cloud Computing
Negotiating Cloud Contracts
By: Alistair Maughan
The cloud computing market is evolving rapidly. New as a service (aaS) platforms are appearing and the dichotomy between public and private cloud domains has been fractured into many different shades of hybrid cloud alternatives. And while many of the key issues – privacy
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December 16, 2014 - Internet of Things, Terms of Use, Privacy, Copyright, Infographic, Litigation
Hot Off the Press: The December Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter Is Now Available
By: Aaron P. Rubin
The latest issue of our Socially Aware newsletter is now available here. In this issue of Socially Aware , our Burton Award -winning guide to the law and business of social media, we look at several topics surrounding the proverbial online thumbs up, including
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December 03, 2014 - FTC
FTC Enforcement Action Confirms That Ad Disclosure Obligations Extend to Endorsements Made in Social Media
By: Julie O'Neill
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has once again made good on its promise to enforce against deceptive advertising under Section 5 of the FTC Act, regardless of the media in which the advertising appears : Its recently announced proposed complaint and draft settlement with
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November 25, 2014 - Online Promotions, IP
Mark Your Calendar: Dec. 4th Digital Media Bootcamp for NYC Area Lawyers & Artists
The Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts will be presenting an all-day “bootcamp” covering digital media and related legal issues on Thursday, December 4, 2014, at Morrison & Foerster LLP’s New York office. The courses will be directed to both attorneys and artists, and will
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November 24, 2014 - Terms of Use, Litigation
Forced to Cyber-Spy: Court Rules Parents Can Be Held Negligent for Child’s Facebook Activity
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Are parents now liable for what their kids post to Facebook? According to a recent decision in the Georgia Court of Appeals, they are. The Georgia Court of Appeals held that the parents of a seventh-grade student could be found negligent for failing to
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November 24, 2014 - Terms of Use
Facebook Dislikes Fake Likes
Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy phony Facebook “likes.” And those can go a long way toward making a small business owner’s dreams come true, right? Wrong, explains Facebook site integrity engineer Matt Jones in a recent post
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November 19, 2014 - Privacy
Big Data: Big Business, Big Privacy Issues
Big data is now big business. In recent years, due to the exponential growth of databases (spurred at least in part by social media and cloud storage) and of the capability of technology to undertake data analytics on a massive scale, organisations have started
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November 18, 2014 - Trademark
Monkey Selfie Redux
When we last examined the intellectual property issues raised by a self-portrait taken by a talented female Indonesian crested black macaque—popularly known as the “Monkey Selfie”—we concluded that there was unlikely to be any copyright protection in the work, under either U.S. law or
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