Ultimately, however, the compact states want Congress to pass a law requiring online and mail-order merchants to collect their taxes.
In fact, it was a woman lawyer, Stephanie Kimbro, who developed one of the first pieces of software to run a law office online.
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And this brings me to the concept that is absolutely fundamental in our view to any conversation about the future of cyberspace: Existing principles of international law apply online, just as they do offline, in our view.
It starts with after-school educational centers called Score, moves to the core test-prep business, on to Concord University School of Law, the nation's first online law school, and right up through BrassRing, a career development service Kaplan formed with Accel Partners and the Tribune (TRB) Co. last year.
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Ironically, Mr. Harper misses the most significant recent dislocation in the practice of law, which is at the consumer end of the market: the rise of low-cost online law firms like LegalZoom and RocketLawyer that aid clients in drafting standard partnerships, wills, leases and the like.
Many exist solely in cyberspace, like Concord University, the first online law school, created in 1998.
He recommends an approach taken by Britain which, last year, passed a law to license online gaming sites.
The law stipulates that online services with youngsters among their customers must obtain the consent of the children's parents before collecting data from them.
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The feds got a new tool in this battle when a 2006 law that targets online gaming payment processors came into full effect last year.
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Anurag Dikshit, the former online poker billionaire, was sentenced on Thursday to one year of probation and no jail time in a hearing that highlighted the extreme confusion over how U.S. law applies to online poker.
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Stephanie embraced the concept of a virtual (online) law practice long before it went mainstream.
Finally, a third federal law that may disallow online, pay-to-enter NCAA Tournament pools is the Uniform Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Among the recommendations in the 225-page study were better co-ordination with law enforcement agencies and online security assessments for schools.
California passed the newest and toughest of law, requiring many online merchants to collect California sales tax on shipments into California.
The law aims to stop online gambling by preventing credit card companies and banks from processing fund transfers for unlawful Internet gambling.
The case was closely followed not just because it pitted old media vs. new, but because it could determine the limits of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the law governing copyright infringement online.
The skirmish in New Jersey is the latest escalation between PokerStars and the big U.S. casino industry, which for years grew frustrated that PokerStars was operating a U.S. facing web site and claiming that U.S. law did not prohibit online poker.
Saying an old e-mail or your online photo album should have the same privacy protection from police as your home filing cabinet, Google, Microsoft and others said Tuesday they will ask Congress to overhaul a 24-year-old federal law that helps define online and mobile phone privacy.
She was responsible for influencing best practices in e-lawyering, winning a prestigious award for innovation, and she continues to contribute to the profession through authorship ( Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online) and education on the subject of virtual law office technology helping countless others learn how to create virtual practices.
You can test your knowledge of how the law applies to your life online here.
One federal law that seems to prohibit online, pay-to-enter NCAA Tournament pools is the Interstate Wire Act of 1961.
There is no comprehensive U.S. law that protects consumer privacy online.
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Jospeph Kelly, a business law professor and expert in online gaming, said that while Dicks' arrest did look to be part of some sort of trend there was an odd disparity with Carruthers.
More importantly, if Grooveshark must build a uniform site-wide operational process to deal with the small minority of user-uploaded recordings protected by state copyright law, then the DMCA online safe harbors failed at a fundamental level.
But states like Nevada and New Jersey are moving toward introducing regulated online poker within their states, with New Jersey legislators considering a law that would only make the market for online poker players in the state open to Atlantic City casinos.
I. mining Facebook have people thinking more seriously about how law enforcement goes about collecting information online.
Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to economic competitiveness and if the executive branch has any authority to change the law.
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New Jersey is the third and largest state to approve online gambling, following similar law changes in Delaware and Nevada.
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