INTERNET LAW

WASHINGTON, October 25, 2003 – The U.S. Senate passed a bill regulating unsolicited commercial email and allowing fines as large as $3 million for some types of illegal spam. The Senate voted 97-0 to approve the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act after a compromise among members of the Senate’s Commerce, Science […]

The Law, In Brief. CANSPAM does not make spam, the practice of sending unsolicited emails, illegal. It does have some specific requirements for commercial emails which we’ll get to shortly. The new law covers all email for which the primary purpose is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a product or service. The law excludes […]

Public Awareness Law Advisory Regarding “4-1-9” or “Advance Fee Fraud” Schemes 4-1-9 Schemes frequently use the following tactics: An individual or company receives a letter or fax from an alleged “official” representing a foreign government or agency; An offer is made to transfer millions of dollars in “over invoiced contract” funds into your personal bank […]

Jan. 12, 2004 – A week after the first federal spam law went into effect, anti-spam companies and Internet service providers report seeing little change in the amount of spam intercepted. For example, 80 percent of the e-mail processed in mid-December by Postini, an e-mail security firm, was spam compared with 84 percent in the first […]

Strategies for Finding the Value in e-Business Investments Online transactions, the darling of the go-go 1990s and the venture capital explosion, still account for a tiny fraction of the business done between businesses and consumers. Business-to-consumer transactions amount to about $20 billion, less than 1 percent of total retail activity, according to a December Brookings […]

Book Title: Starting an Online Business (For Dummies) (4th Edition) (Paperback) by Greg Holden Editorial Reviews: Book Description So you want to own your own business, be your own boss, set your own hours, and make real money. If you’re comfortable with computers and have a marketable idea, service, or product, this guide will help […]