"Legal Issues" Posts
News Brief: Pennsylvania Delays Online Tax Compliance Until September
Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Revenue Dan Meuser issued an extension today for online businesses with a physical presence in the state to become compliant with licensing and sales tax collection. As we reported in December, the state originally requested compliance by February 1, 2012, but Meuser’s announcement indicated that businesses will now have until September 1, 2012.
Cashing Out: Week of January 15th – 21st 2012 in Online Marketing News
Plug pulled on SOPA, PIPA postponed
Internet companies and users who opposed two bills aimed at stopping online piracy are celebrating two victories this week, with the January 20 withdrawal of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act…
Cashing Out: Week of December 18th – 26th 2011 in Online Marketing News
SOPA battle continues over holidays
As the House Judiciary Committee adjourned for the holidays December 23, a decision had not yet been reached on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The proposed legislation, supported by both Republicans and Democrats,…
Cashing Out: Week of December 11th – 17th 2011 in Online Marketing News
Zynga’s IPO less than stellar
Social gaming company Zynga made its stock market debut December 16, and its disappointing performance has led some, like Mashable, to question whether the the IPO signals “the end of the social…
Cashing Out: Week of November 20th – 27th 2011 in Online Marketing News
Facebook’s Sponsored Stories appear in real-time Ticker
November 21, Facebook’s Sponsored Stories went where they’ve never gone before – to the social network’s real-time Ticker.
The paid ad format has been around since last year, using content from your Facebook…
Cashing Out: Week of November 13th – 19th 2011 in Online Marketing News
Top sites protest SOPA
The US Senate met November 16 to discuss a bill that has the tech community up in arms. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which builds on the Protect IP Act introduced earlier…
Cashing Out: Week of November 6th – 12th 2011 in Online Marketing News
AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo sign three-way ad deal
In what is being touted as a “mega display ad deal,” and “the newest ad exchange on the block,” AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a new deal November 8…
Cashing Out: Week of October 9th – 15th 2011 in Online Marketing News
EBay announces X.commerce and Facebook partnership
EBay representatives took the stage at its new developer conference Innovate on October 12 to announce both a new platform and a new partnership.
The company’s CEO John Donahoe took the…
News Brief: Affiliate Nexus Tax and Illinois Unemployment Figures
The US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics released a chart of unemployment figures for Illinois from January 2010 to July 2011. The chart shows a sharp decline in employment. The affiliate industry has grabbed those figures and highlighted…
Risky Communication: Protecting Digital Attorney-Client Privilege
Our digital connection to work is often so constant that we forget to draw the line between personal and professional. You may want to draw that line more clearly based on a recent ethics opinion released by the American Bar…
