February 29, 2016 “Spam” lawsuits are becoming an ever-increasing concern to companies in the email marketing space. The potential liability of such suits can reach levels that threaten to jeopardize the viability of the business itself. Statutory liability may be imposed in amounts of up to $100.00 per email under the federal CAN-SPAM Act, with […]
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October 6, 2015 Last week, a proposed class action settlement was published detailing the terms under which LinkedIn will settle various claims of “spam”-related violations in connection with its “Add Connections” feature. What were the claims against LinkedIn and what are the terms of settlement?
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We have begun to see an influx of “spam” lawsuits in the Utah federal district courts brought by XMission, L.C. (“XMission”), a Utah-based Internet Service Provider, against advertisers, marketers, and their affiliates, for alleged violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.
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March 11, 2015 Last week, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (“CRTC” or the “Commission”) issued its first Notice of Violation under Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (“CASL”). Canadian corporate training company compu.finder Inc. (“Compu-Finder”) has received a fine of $1.1 million for allegedly sending email without the recipients’ consent or a properly functioning unsubscribe mechanism. What
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February 6, 2015 This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a judgment from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland dismissing a $600 million spam lawsuit brought under California’s and Maryland’s anti-spam statutes by Internet Service Provider, Beyond Systems, Inc. (“Beyond Systems”) against Kraft Foods, Inc. (“Kraft”)
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Whether you are an advertiser or a marketer, if you engage in email advertising you have received, or likely will receive, a settlement demand letter or papers commencing a lawsuit from one of many California-based plaintiffs or law firms. While many advertisers and marketers anticipated an explosion of lawsuits after the passage of the CAN-SPAM
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Last week, two Chicago-based text message marketers, CPA Tank, Inc. and Eagle Web Assets, Inc., settled a case brought against them by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). The FTC complaint alleged that the text message marketers were part of a scheme that sent millions of unwanted text messages to consumers and used gift cards to
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The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently entered into a court-approved settlement agreement with Jason Q. Cruz, individually and doing business as Appidemic, Inc., who was accused of transmitting unsolicited commercial text messages offering consumers free merchandise, including $1,000 gift cards to large retailers and iPads. According to the FTC, none of the merchandise actually was
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