Oct 2, 2012

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Plagiarism punishable under Cybercrime Law — De Lima
GMA News
Incidentally, the lawmaker accused of inserting the provision on online libel in the Cybercrime Law — Sen. Tito Sotto — has once found himself at the receiving end of tirades, and even ridicule, for allegedly plagiarizing an American blogger's work ...
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New tax code requires online retailers to collect sales tax
WSB Atlanta
The law requires online retailers to pay sales tax even if the only physical presence in the state is an ad on a Georgia-based website or an affiliate. Opponents argue these that affiliate business will just pack up and move to neighboring states and ...
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Kids under 13 on Facebook? FTC updating web law
KHOU (blog)
HOUSTON—The Federal Trade Commission says it is ready to update federal law to allow kids under 13 years old to sign up for websites like Facebook. The 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act currently prohibits kids under 13 from setting up ...
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Privacy war heats up between ACLU, DOJ
CSO
October 02, 2012 — CSO — Law enforcement authorities in the U.S. still need a warrant to listen in on your phone calls or to read your emails and text messages. But they don't need your permission or a warrant to track who you call, who calls you ...
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LexisNexis Launches CounselLink Insight, Powerful Benchmarking and Cost ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. Today, LexisNexis harnesses leading-edge technology and world-class content, to help professionals work in faster ...
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In Online Pharmacy Case, Sides Clash Over Legality of Business Model
Law.com
Defense lawyers have taken an aggressive approach to the case, insisting their clients had good reasons to believe they were complying with the law. In their opening statements, each defense attorney referenced advice their clients sought and received ...
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Amex paying $112.5M in late-fee settlements
LubbockOnline.com
The agencies said American Express violated federal laws prohibiting deceptive practices by using false statements to get customers to settle old debts. The regulators say that included falsely telling customers that if they agreed to settlements to ...
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Court won't hear anti-gay marriage group appeal
Online Athens
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine's campaign disclosure law requiring it to release its donor list. The high court turned aside an appeal from the ...
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Victoria County OKs online real estate document system
Victoria Advocate
Title companies, mortgage bankers and law offices soon can take advantage of Victoria County's online real estate records. The Commissioners Court approved the $42,640 contract with Manatron Inc., a Thompson Reuters business. County Clerk Robert ...
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More protection under new online buying laws
Newstalk ZB
Good news for regular purchasers of goods online, you're about to receive more protection under the law. A number of changes have been made by a select committee to the biggest overhaul of consumer regulations in 25 years. Those include making the ...
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Newstalk ZB
VA: Gutsy lawmakers could change state law to publish public pensions
Missouri News Horizon
ALEXANDRIA — State law seems to block Virginia from creating an online database of public employee pension payroll that could reveal anomalies like "double dippers" in the system. AT WHAT COST?: State lawmakers would have to change Virginia Code ...
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Supreme Court to tackle affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights
Catholic Online
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - After upholding President Obama's health care overhaul, the same court lineup of justices' returns to the bench this week. Chief Justice John Roberts has joined the court's liberals in sustaining the health care law.
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Online delivery of question papers soon
Hindustan Times
The faculties of engineering, pharmacy, law and education will be the first to use technology in the examination process for the upcoming October exams. The focus will be on online delivery of question papers. On Monday, the university informed ...
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Bend joins Redmond in online crime mapping
KTVZ
BAIR Analytics offers RAIDS Online and the RAIDS Online Mobile app as a free service to any law enforcement agency that wishes to participate. RAIDS Online is ad-free and BAIR Analytics does not sell the data to third party vendors, thus the agency ...
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Missouri lawmakers make contraception bill law in sole override vote
Marshfield Mail
Missouri employers and insurance companies now have a state legal claim to refuse to provide health insurance coverage for contraception. kAm|:DD@FC: =2H>2<6CD >6E .... An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an ...
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Japan's controversial anti-piracy law comes into effect
Wired.co.uk
Online piracy had been illegal in Japan since 2010, but that only covered the uploading of pirated content, which could be punished with up to ten years in prison or a fine of up to 10 million yen (£79,236). The new bill, however, specifically ...
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Wired.co.uk
What eSports Can Tell Us About the Future of Online Gambling
Forbes
Receiving a cash prize for winning a StarCraft II competition is legal at the federal level in the United States and, depending on the structure of competition, legal in up to 48 states since it is considered a "game of skill". Playing online poker for ...
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Forbes
Fate of Cybercrime Law in DOJ hands –Palace
GMA News
De Lima's made position on the law public after Senator Chiz Escudero noted the insertion of the online libel clause was a mistake. However, according to the Palace official, the President was able to study the recommendations transmitted to him in the ...
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Malawi government to censor online publications
amalawi info
By Simon Mponela,. Malawi government of Joyce Banda is considering regulating on-line media a thing which no previous government has done in Malawi. The considerations are outlined in the proposed E-bill which is yet to be presented to parliament ...
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NoNameSite Announces SoCo Online Learning Program
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
... today announced the launch of a new series of 76 online learning modules geared to help kids compete in NoNameSite online competitions and challenges. Sponsored by and developed in partnership with DARPA, the School of Code (SoCo) is a program ...
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Pa. voter ID law ruling could mean political swing
Uniontown Herald Standard
Some political momentum could be on the line when a judge rules on whether to keep intact Pennsylvania's tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification in next month's presidential election. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson is ...
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Sotto admits he proposed online libel provision
Inquirer.net
Sotto's proposed amendment defined the cybercrime of libel as "the unlawful or prohibited acts of libel as defined in Article 355 of the Revised Penal Code committed through a computer system or any other similar means which may be devised in the ...
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Federal Bill Would Require Warrant for Access To Online Communications ...
Bloomberg BNA
would require law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant before accessing contents of online communications or geolocation data. Next Steps: Lofgren, expecting no action in Congress on the bill before the end of year, plans to reintroduce measure ...
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Whedon's SHIELD Cast Descriptions Surface Online
Comic Book Resources
TVLine has obtained cast descriptions for the project, which centers on the global espionage and law-enforcement agency that's helped to provide the connective tissue between the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As part of his three-year ...
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Georgia now collects sales tax for online purchases, Tennessee will likely ...
Nooga.com
Online retailers in Georgia now have to collect sales tax, a move that Tennessee will follow in a couple of years. WSBTV reported that the new law went into effect Monday in Georgia, and the topic is one that local and state leaders have grappled with.
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Ice-T talks Ice Loves Coco & Peepshow on Jimmy Fallon
E! Online
Ice and Jimmy covered the success of Ice's hit show Law & Order: SVU, which recently shot its 300th episode. When Jimmy finally asked about Coco, Ice lit up and was almost giddy while discussing the love of his life – with who whom he is currently ...
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Facebook Says Child Privacy Laws Should Not Apply to 'Like' Buttons
New York Times (blog)
... proposed revisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or Coppa. In it, the company argued that it had no control over sites that incorporate social plug-ins, such as a "like" button, and should therefore not be held liable under the ...
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Rise above your sister-in-law's bad behaviour
Toronto Star
There's no surprise in anything you've discovered through online dating, even though there are men out there who are comfortable, happy and stimulated by same-age women. Online dating sites are a huge sea to fish in, and so it'll take time to catch or ...
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'Most comprehensive' plea yet filed vs cyber law
Inquirer.net
The law has become contentious for a provision criminalizing libel online and "any other similar means which may be devised in the future," thus inhibiting freedom in online platforms, mainly social media. "Among all petitions filed in the Supreme ...
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Inquirer.net
Widening of consumer law recommended
Radio New Zealand
The parliamentary select committee considering new consumer laws is recommending that the Consumers Guarantees Act cover all transactions between traders and consumers. That would include online auctions and competitive tenders. The committee ...
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New Mobile App CityConnect(TM) Lets Local Law Enforcement Connect Directly ...
U.S. Politics Today
PublicEngines' products include CrimeReports -- the #1 most popular online crime mapping solution available; CommandCentral -- a rich, intuitive, and affordable crime analytics and data visualization engine; and TipSoft -- the industry's most widely ...
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Parties clash over judges' retirement perks
Daily Mail
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley's observations on the judiciary were met by a tough response from law minister Salman Khurshid. "If he (Jaitley) wants certain things to be changed then we can talk about it, but is it necessary to ...
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Daily Mail
Deadline nears on judge's Pa. voter ID law ruling
East Oregonian
A court-imposed Tuesday deadline is looming for a judge to decide whether Pennsylvania's tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification can remain intact, a ruling that could swing election momentum to Republican candidates now trailing in ...
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ATS Unveils Online Legal Database
GlobeNewsWire (press release)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Traffic Solutions (ATS), the largest provider of road safety camera programs in North America, is pleased to unveil the most comprehensive online database of photo enforcement legal ...
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Hackers go on the attack on 'Bloody Monday'
GMA News
The hackers, who left their cyber signatures on the websites, urged "a revision of the [Cybercrime Law] for the betterment of the Filipino denizens." The government websites that were hacked include that of the National Telecommunications Commission, ...
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Protests vs Cybercrime Law rage on multiple fronts | SciTech | GMA ...
Online and offline, various groups voiced their strong opposition to the controversial Anti-Cybercrime Law, which they branded as a threat to Filipinos' right to freedom of expression.
GMA News Online
Cebuano legislators back calls to amend cybercrime law, lighten ...
By laureenjean
CEBU CITY -- Three Cebu congressmen who voted for the passage of the Cybercrime Prevention Act support calls to amend the law. Representative Pablo Garcia (Cebu, second district) said the cybercrime bill was not thoroughly discussed in ... the law authorizes the Department of Justice to take down any website without a court order. Freedom. Representative Gabriel Luis Quisumbing (Cebu, sixth district) said he is in favor of reducing the penalties on libelous online statements.
Cebu | Sun.Star Network Online
Craigslist vs. 3Taps: Ownership Of User Generated Web Content At ...
By Carl Franzen
"If the Craigslist copyright claim with respect to user-generated content is effective, that would have important implications for copyright law online," said Greg Lastowka, an intellectual law professor at Rutgers, in an email to TPM. Specifically ...
TPM News
08:45 AM - How Appealing - Law.com
And The Connecticut Law Tribune reports that "U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz Passes Away; Well-respected jurist dies of ALS at age 62." Posted at 10:07 PM ... Law professor Sonja West has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. Posted at ...
How Appealing
Deadline nears on judge's Pa. voter ID law - Herald Online
A judge on Tuesday blocked Pennsylvania's divisive voter identification requirement from going into effect on Election Day, delivering a hard-fought victory to Democrats who said it was a ploy to defeat President Barack Obama and other ...
Rock Hill Herald Online -- National...
Operating Online - The Risks to Cover with Insurance
By Irene Bodle
Bodle Law explains what mandatory and optional insurance options should be considered by online IT suppliers when selling software via a UK based company.
Web Analytics World: Online Marketing...
What to Do When You Are Attacked Online - The Social Media Monthly
By Bob Fine
Rather than wasting time, you may think, why not sue the website, particularly if it refuses to identify the bad actor or remove the defamatory content? Federal law, however, shields online forums from liability when the operators are not actively ...
The Social Media Monthly

Web3 new results for Law Online
 
Facebook claims revisions to children's online privacy law would ...
Facebook claims revisions to children's online privacy law would violate First Amendment. October 01, 2012. Facebook —. "Won't someone please think of the ...
www.dailydot.com/.../facebook-childrens-online-privacy-prot...
Middle East Online::Mali heritage falls prey to Islamists' strict law ...
BAMAKO - Islamists destroyed Saturday another tomb of a Muslim saint in a northern Mali region under their control, witnesses said. "I saw the Islamists in ...
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=54636
AJMLS Students Contribute to Online Access to Justice in Georgia ...
The videos, all found online now at GeorgiaLegalAid.org, cover domestic violence, consumer law, Social Security and unemployment insurance law. Greg Gelpi ...
www.johnmarshall.edu/.../ajmls-students-contribute-to-online-...


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