In a 33-1 vote, on May 13, the state Senate approved Senator Mark Leno’s bill that would require state law enforcement officials to obtain a search warrant before asking service providers to disclose the contents of their customers’ emails. This approval came after Senator Leno agreed to allow for…
Pillsbury attorney, Sean F. Kane will be a featured panelist at the upcoming Video Game Bar Association’s inaugural Game Business & Legal Affairs conference. The conference will provide an in-depth analysis of the prevalent and pertinent legal and business issues within the video game industry. Founded in 2011 as an…
Please join us at the Augmented World Expo 2013 (Santa Clara, June 4 – 5) for 2 days of workshops, sessions, and networking dedicated to understanding how to drive behavior in consumers, employees and stakeholders. Now in its 4th year, Augmented World Expo (formerly ARE) is assembling the biggest names…
The Bank of China Hong Kong announced recently that it plans to launch its first credit card that is compatible with Near Field Communication (“NFC) technology this year. NFC is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to communicate with each other by either by touching or bringing…
Yesterday a NY court again dismissed Viacom’s $1 billion suit against Google/YouTube for copyright infringement. The court found that the DMCA shielded YouTube from liability after an appellate court (see prior blog post) vacated the prior dismissal. This decision reaffirms the fact that, subject to certain exceptions, the burden of policing copyright…
Please join us April 24-25 at the Social Casino Summit. Pillsbury will be participating in the Global iGaming Summit and Expo as an exhibiting sponsor James Gatto will be presenting a session titled, “Clarifying the blurred legal boundaries between various forms of social, virtual currency, prediction, sweepstakes and other forms…
Check out this Mobile Payments Infographic brought to you by the Mobile Payments Working Group, as part of the Application Developers Alliance. Pillsbury team members Jim Gatto, Deb Thoren-Peden and JiJi Park are all members of the working group and contributed to this effort. If you like to learn more…
The SEC has provided guidance to publicly reporting companies on how to use popular social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, consistent with federal securities laws. For more information, please read Safe Tweeting: SEC Provides Guidance on Social Media and Regulation FD Compliance.
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a report that makes clear that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation FD) so long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. RUMOR: Google Is Launching An Augmented Reality Based E-Book Line Google is going to be launching a line of e-books that utilize augmented reality using technology that was developed by Niantic Labs. Niantic Labs…