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1. 2012 US-China Legal Exchange
E-Commerce Legal Issues
Perspective from American Entrepreneurs
Bennet Kelley
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3. • Initial Attempts To Regulate Focused
On Threats To Viability Of Frontier –
– E.g., Protecting Consumers
So They Feel Safe On Internet
• Usually Enacted Through Consensus
With Government & Business
10. US Securities Law Rooted in
DDReaction to 1929 Stock Market
Crash.
Until they are traded on a public
stock exchange, start-ups source of
money limited to:
• Financial institutions
• Wealthy Individuals
• Friends and Family
• Debt
11. EMERGING
ISSUE
Oxford English Dictionary
the practice of funding a project or venture by
raising many small amounts of money from a
large number of people, typically via the Internet.
12. • Only sought $100,000
• Donors received perks,
but no equity
• JOBS Act
In 2013, can issue
securities to raise up to
$1M via crowd-funding
15. [Industry] self-regulation of privacy has
not worked adequately and is not
working adequately for Americans
consumers. We deserve far better from
the companies we entrust our data to,
and industry, as a whole, must do better.
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
16. • Easily Understandable Policies
• Use Consistent with Collection
• Secure and Responsible
Handling of Data
• Access to Ensure Accuracy
• Focused Collection
• Accountability
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18. • Federal
– Google Pays $22.5 Million Fine to FTC (August 2012)
• State
– California Attorney General announces creation
of Privacy Enforcement Unit (July 2012)
– New President of National Association of
Attorneys General to make privacy top priority
(August 2012)
19. • Blogger Disclosure
of Paid Relationship
• Updating DotCom
Disclosures for
EMERGING
ISSUE Social Media
21. • New gTLDs and
Domain Name Issues
• Counterfeiting
– Nearly 800 Domain Names
Seized in last 2 years
• Cyber-Smearing
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• Founder of Internet Law Center in Santa Monica
• Former Co-Chair of California Bar Cyberspace Committee.
Launched effort and contributed to development of primer
on cyber law for state policymakers.
• Host of Cyber Law & Business Report on
WebmasterRadio.fm (Weds at 10-11AM PT).
• Publisher of Cyber Report newsletter
which won top prize at 2011 LA Press Club Awards and
named a top source for internet law.
• Award-winning columnist.