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What's Inside
This up-to-date, second edition of the five volume legal treatise offers an unparalleled reference and practical resource – the complete authority on internet, mobile and digital law for business lawyers and litigators. ​
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Newly Revised Information
  • The CCPA (including March 2020 draft regulations and litigation), the GDPR and Privacy Shield
  • Case law and strategies for defending data privacy, cybersecurity breach, TCPA & other class action suits
  • Platform liability & moderation policies, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the CDA and other common defenses and safe harbors – and their application to social media sites, the cloud and mobile and sales platforms
  • Artificial intelligence, machine learning, database protection and laws governing screen scraping
  • Antirust law in the era of techlash, internet advertising, social media contests and promotions (by Ed Chansky), email and text marketing, sponsored and embedded links, fair use, and affiliate marketing
  • Idea protection outside normal theories of intellectual property law
  • The Defend Trade Secrets Act and state laws, including protection for negative trade secrets
  • Website and mobile accessibility under the Americans with Disability Act and state laws
  • Navigating circuit splits and troll litigation under multiple statutes and theories of law
  • Exhaustive analysis of Terms of Service and arbitration provisions to limit online exposure
  • Laws applicable to Internet and mobile search, SEO and SEM
  • TCPA circuit splits (2d and 9th vs. 3rd, 7th and 11th) and how they impact the law of text and mobile marketing
  • Revisiting the law of links, frames, inline links and embedded links
  • Dormant Commerce Clause restrictions on state laws governing the internet, including privacy statutes
  • Music licensing (co-authored by Tucker McCrady)
  • Cybersafety standards and best practices for youth audiences in social media, apps, games and networks (by Parry Aftab)
  • CDA case law updates, including circuit-by-circuit, and claim-by-claim analysis, a comprehensive analysis of rarely-litigated subsection (2), 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(2), new CDA tests for Lanham Act, antitrust, and ADA website/app accessibility cases, and using subpart (c)(2) to limit FOSTA/SESTA exposure, and the interplay between CDA immunity and the Music Modernization Act & Defend Trade Secrets Act
  • New case law expanding and contracting anti-SLAPP remedies in California, Texas and elsewhere
  • California’s Bot Disclosure Law – and when it applies
  • Updated security breach notification statutes and procedures and other state laws governing data security
  • GDPR and EU updates (by Francoise Gilbert and Viola Bensinger)
  • Shield law protection for blogs and bloggers
  • Preparing a Written Information Security Plan (by Tom Smedinghoff)
  • Patent law and litigation (by Josh Raskin)
  • The Insurance Data Security Model Law and its implementation in multiple states
  • New case law on e-signatures and the federal eSIGN law
  • California Consumer Privacy Act draft regulations (co-authored with Rebekah Guyon)
  • Catalogs of state statutes on e-mail marketing, internet security, online dating, revenge porn, and more! 
Thorough Analysis and Practical Solutions
  • Exhaustive analysis – hundreds of pages of analysis, thousands of case cites, detailed and clear analysis
  • Practical solutions for addressing circuit splits, unclear statutes, and complex legal rules and regulations
  • Checklist and forms
  • Detailed analysis useful for M&A due diligence, litigation (including procedural pitfalls and analysis of circuit splits), and contracting and licenses
Extensive Treatment
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Social media, the cloud, blogs, wiki, user generated content
  • Platform liability and moderation
  • Big data and IoT privacy and security laws and practices
  • Website accessibility and online and mobile contract formation
  • Intellectual property laws, fair use provisions and safe harbors
  • Circuit splits and areas where the law is unclear
  • Practical solutions and best practices
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List of Chapters
Index

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  • Home
  • 2022 UPDATES
  • About The Treatise
    • About the Treatise
    • List of Chapters
    • Table of Contents
  • About The Author
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Recent Articles
    • How Working From Home May Change Federal Court Litigation for the Better
    • Anticipating the Flood of Cybersecurity Litigation
    • Decision Upholding Santa Monica Ordinance Too Narrowly Construes Section 230(c)(1) of the CDA