Category: Internet Law

Denys Kostyuchenko, Unsplash As jurisdictions around the country continue to impose limitations—or outright bans—on restrictive covenants, Florida is taking a decidedly different approach. The Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act (“the Act”) effective as of July 1, 2025 permits employers to use non-compete and garden leave restrictions up to 4…

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[Note: my blogging hiatus is due to a trip to China. I will return to the US this weekend and presumably resume my regular blogging cadence then.] This is a confusing lawsuit that has been through several names, including “Sarah v. Google” and “Unknown Parties v. Google.” The court previously described the core allegations: The…

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In a case that is likely to provide much awaited guidance on the application of trade mark law to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), luxury design house Hermès International and Hermès of Paris, Inc. (Hermès) is suing artist Mason Rothschild in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for trademark infringement and dilution,…

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My Globe and Mail op-ed opens by noting that after years of dismissing the warnings of likely retaliation, the Canadian government caved to U.S. pressure earlier this week as it cancelled the digital services tax. Faced with the U.S. suspension of trade negotiations, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that the government would rescind the legislation that…

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Originally posted 2010-11-18 18:43:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I wrote this in the New Jersey Law Journal last week. Op-edHands Off Blogs Mandatory disclosure of payment to bloggers runs counter to free expression By Ronald D. ColemanNew Jersey Law JournalJanuary 26, 2007 No one is free from bias of some sort or another,…

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As digital technologies continue to permeate every facet of modern life, cybersecurity and data privacy have emerged as defining legal challenges of the 21st century. From state-sponsored cyberattacks to private-sector data breaches and government surveillance, these issues demand a coherent and constitutionally grounded response. In the United States, however, the legal architecture addressing cybersecurity and…

Read More “Constitutional Rights for Cybersecurity and Data Privacy — Internet Lawyer Blog — June 30, 2025” »

It’s becoming a truth universally acknowledged that when a gTLD sees a growth spike it’s because the registry is running a promo and tens of thousands of machine-generated junk domains have been registered. That certainly seems to be true for June’s biggest growers. The gTLDs the grew the fastest last month were .watch, .yachts, .autos,…

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Joshua Zhang, Unsplash In the wake of the Federal Trade Commission’s recently failed attempt to ban non-compete agreements between employers and workers,[1] individual states have once again taken up the mantle of further regulating and limiting their use. These states’ new efforts have appeared with greatest frequency in the health care sector.  In states where…

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[Note: Greetings from Shanghai, where it’s almost 1 am and the Supreme Court has just demolished the Internet. I’m posting these remarks and then heading to bed, where I will curl up in a fetal position as I question everything I know about Internet Law–and lament how the next generations of Americans will experience a…

Read More “Prof. Goldman’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Demolition of the Internet in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton” »

The Legal 500 United States 2023 guide has ranked Norton Rose Fulbright as a leading law firm in 34 national practice areas and recognized 23 of the firm’s US lawyers as national leaders. Seven of the recognized lawyers were part of the “Hall of Fame” of their respective practice groups, and eight were named to…

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