Dozier Internet Law, PC: Internet Lawyertag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13122622009-10-29T16:21:32-07:00John W. Dozier, Jr., Esq., Internet Lawyer, President of Dozier Internet Law PC (PEER ratings: "AV" by Martindale Hubbell (Internet Lawyer), "Legal Elite in Intellectual Property" by Virginia Business Magazine and Virginia Bar Association, "SuperLawyer" by Superlawyer Magazine, and member of the Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys in the law of the Internet), offers a balanced Internet lawyer perspective on the law of the web. Dozier Internet Law, the Internet Lawyer experts.TypePadDozier Internet Law: MySpace Postings Net Criminal Convictiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a63a1c3b970b2009-10-29T16:21:32-07:002009-10-29T16:21:32-07:00Dozier Internet Law protects the reputations of professionals and businesses online, so we do our best to keep up with the latest developments about social media comments. This case was handed down this summer. In US v. Voneida the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury conviction for postings by the defendant on his MySpace page. There is a federal law that prohibits the transmission in interstate commerce of any communications containing any threat to injure another person. In this case, the Defendant made generalized threats that the Virginia Tech students got what they deserved and stated his support...Dozier Internet LawDozier Internet Law: Six Get Prison For Website Harassmenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a622af56970b2009-10-26T20:26:59-07:002009-10-26T20:26:59-07:00Each will get from one to three years in prison for violation of the AETA and cyberstalking. Dozier Internet Law has commented on the recent Federal appellate court decision rejecting free speech and constitutional challenges to convictions of six animal rights activists. You can read about the convictions on the www.google-bombs.com website. This is a significant victory for those fighting online personal terrorism and could be the map for legislators to follow as laws are drafted trying to address the mobosphere attacks that have become so prevalent online. Expect an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, and...Dozier Internet LawGoogle Embraces Reputation Management Techniques tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a661dc3c970c2009-10-20T17:48:07-07:002009-10-20T17:48:07-07:00John W Dozier Jr, author of Google Bomb with Sue Scheff, highlighted extensive reputation management tactics to counteract Google's biased search results. Now, for the first time, Google has officially approved and is now encouraging the use of reputation management as a defense to false and defamatory search results. The Dozier Internet Law advice in Google Bomb goes much further than the Google guidance and advice and there are some problems with their suggestions since merely asking a webhost or website owner to pull down content, as Google suggests, can itself create more problems in search results. Rather naive advice....Dozier Internet LawWebhost Hit With $32.4M Judgment For Hosting Sitetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a5e7a080970b2009-10-15T12:00:00-07:002009-10-15T12:00:00-07:00At Dozier Internet Law we counsel web hosts on how to handle trademark and copyright claims. That's become an even hotter topic in recent weeks as a jury in California returned a $32.4 Million Judgment on behalf of Louis Vuitton against a web hosting company for hosting a website that was allegedly selling knock-offs. The judgment is not surprising and the principles of law nothing new. But you would have thought the sky was falling. The consumer rights groups and their fanatical followers are all over the web expressing outrage. It's as if they do not understand the laws of...Dozier Internet LawDec. 1 Effective Date of New FTC Regulations on Online Advertisingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a63ddf49970c2009-10-14T19:13:05-07:002009-10-14T19:13:05-07:00At Dozier Internet Law we have seen a gradual, and now more pronounced, shift towards creating liability on the advertiser when an affiliate acts up and breaks the law. There has always been liability if the affiliate marketer is acting as an agent. But that is hard to prove. In the CANSPAM act an affiliate's misconduct can be imputed through to the business for whom he is marketing if the business "consciously avoided" acquiring knowledge of the spammer's misconduct. Now with the new FTC Guidelines coming into effect December 1 the Federal Trade Commission expects businesses (advertisers) using third parties...Dozier Internet LawDozier Internet Law's John W Dozier Jr Radiotag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a5e741b5970b2009-10-14T19:02:47-07:002009-10-14T19:02:47-07:00Dozier Internet Law's Founder and President, John W Dozier Jr., joined Michael Baisden on his syndicated radio show to chat about the Google Bomb book and take some calls from listeners. Here's the link: Baisden Radio. It was the typical Michael Baisden show...upbeat and fun. And making a discussion about Internet law upbeat and fun is quite the challenge!Dozier Internet LawDozier Internet Law: Harvard Prof. Backs Section 230 Changestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a626c6fa970c2009-10-08T18:31:21-07:002009-10-08T18:31:21-07:00Google Bomb calls for specific changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The book is available on Amazon and receiving great reviews...here is the link: Dozier Internet Law. It looks like someone at Harvard may have been reading John W Dozier Jr.'s "E-Bill of Rights" in the book. The recommendations relating to how to amend Section 230 to deal with the overly broad immunity for websites was adopted by a Harvard law professor in Congressional testimony last week. More details to come on the Google Bomb community blog later this evening. This is the first time the issue...Dozier Internet LawDozier Internet Law on Baisden Radiotag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a5d026b9970b2009-10-08T18:14:56-07:002009-10-08T18:14:56-07:00Catch John W Dozier Jr, President of Dozier Internet Law, on the Michael Baisden nationally syndicated radio show yesterday. The link is to the podcast. This time Mr. Dozier took questions from listeners in this high energy show. Amazon reviews for Google Bomb are here: Dozier Internet Law. And you can meet up with Dozier Internet Law at the upcoming Ad:Tech conference in NYC first week in November.Dozier Internet LawAnother Great Google Bomb Book Reviewtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a5ee7c74970c2009-09-24T18:41:36-07:002009-09-24T18:41:36-07:00Here is the link to the first review from an Internet lawyer on the Google Bomb Book. Thrilled to get such a positive reaction from an attorney who is an online defamation specialist and obviously knows the landscape out in California. We don't know each other, either, except through the reputation of our respective work. Link: Dozier Internet LawDozier Internet LawDozier Internet Law: Dozier Interview on DC TVtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8357c8c8e69e20120a5db227c970c2009-09-20T07:42:11-07:002009-09-20T07:47:36-07:00It seems timely to point to the John W Dozier Jr (Founder of Dozier Internet Law) TV interview last week in Washington DC about the changes we need to make to protect ourselves from the online scofflaws of the web. Dozier Internet Law and John W Dozier Jr are calling for changes now to promote self policing so the web can become a safe neighborhood. Here it is: Dozier Internet Law TV Interview.Dozier Internet Law