Balough
April 22, 2018
(March 17, 2018) The news media has reached out to Balough Law Offices for comments regarding three recent developments in the law. Cheryl Dancey Balough was interviewed by the Cook County Record regarding whether embedded content in social media violate copyright law. For our story on the case, click here. Richard C. Balough was interviewed […]
Balough
March 16, 2018
(March 16. 2018) A website that allows anyone to post videos and images, includes in its terms of use a prohibition against posting copyrighted material, and upon notice promptly takes down infringing materials is protected from copyright infringement liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). Ventura Content, Ltd., which creates and distributes pornographic movies, […]
Balough
March 15, 2018
(March 15, 2018) Cybercriminals are following the money and it is leading them to cryptocurrency. In the March 2018 McAfee Labs Threats Report, the company found “one of the biggest developments in cybercrime is an increasing emphasis on cryptocurrency hijacking, which coincided with the increased market interest in digital currencies.” The criminal interest in cryptocurrency […]
Balough
February 20, 2018
(February 20, 2018) The widespread practice of embedding links to images and videos on other sites is copyright infringement, according to a New York U.S. district court. The court rejected the Ninth and Seventh Circuit’s use of the “server test,” which states there is no copyright infringement as long as the original image remains on […]
Balough
February 16, 2018
(February 14, 2018) Richard C. Balough discussed libel and privacy law in the Trump era as part of a journalism class at the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Balough explored President Trump’s statement that “our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent American values or American fairness” in light […]
Balough
February 4, 2018
(February 4, 2018) A claim that the dating site Tinder engages in age discrimination by charging premium subscribers over 30 up to twice as much as those under 30 has been reinstated by a California appellate court. Tinder, Inc. owns and operates a smartphone-based dating application. The basic level of the app is free, but […]
Balough
February 1, 2018
(February 1, 2018) A “bank” that claims it raised $600 million in an initial coin offering for its own cryptocurrency has been shut down by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a receiver appointed. In a complaint unsealed on January 29, the SEC alleges that AriseBank, based in Dallas, Texas, and its co-founders were […]
Balough
December 26, 2017
(December 26, 2017) A hotel reseller booking site has agreed to stop practices that led customers to believe they were booking rooms on the actual hotel site when in fact the customers were not. When booking with the reseller, customers had their credit cards charged in advance, could not avail themselves of the hotel’s cancellation […]
Balough
December 1, 2017
(December 1, 2017) Between 400 million to 800 million workers worldwide could be displaced by automation and artificial intelligence by 2030 and will need to find new jobs, a new report issued by McKinsey Global Institute finds. Of those displaced, between 75 to 375 million will need to switch occupations as well. The report notes […]
Balough
November 29, 2017
(November 29, 2017) It’s not a violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) for a video service provider to send to a third party vendor the serial number of a video device and identify the video being watched by a viewer of a digital streaming channel—even if the third party vendor can then link […]
