Cyberspace Law Committee Newsletter - April 2019

Business & Corporate

Message from the Chair

Cheryl Dancey Balough

The snow clouds have all but disappeared over most of North America, and a more important “cloud” is about to make its debut: Cloud 3.0: Drafting and Negotiating Cloud Computing Agreements. Edited by Lisa Lifshitz and John Rothchild, this latest Cyberspace book launches this month.

Business & Corporate

Cloud 3.0 Is Here!

While one-sided, standard boilerplate agreements for cloud computing are slowly evolving to meet regulatory and legal environments, not all cloud agreements are created equal or adequately meet customers’ increasingly demanding legal and regulatory requirements

Business & Corporate

Soliciting Authors for the Annual Survey of the Law of Cyberspace

Survey Editor

The Committee is looking for authors to write sections of its annual Survey of the Law of Cyberspace. The Survey appears each year in THE BUSINESS LAWYER, a print publication of the ABA Business Law Section. You can take a look at last year’s Survey issue here (ABA member sign-in required).

Business & Corporate

Dutch Say "No" to Allowing Cookie Walls in Light of the GDPR

Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP

We live in an age where we expect to have all sorts of free information at the click of a mouse or tap of a touchscreen. The use of cookie walls, pop-ups that require consent to use of cookies in order to access a site, counter these expectations of access to endless free information.

Business & Corporate

Subcommittee News

Updates from the Cloud & Enterprise Technology Subcommittee, Consumer Privacy and Data Analytics Subcommittee, Current Law Task Force, Cyber Insurance Subcommittee, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee, Electronic Payments and Financial Services Subcommittee and Smart Contract and Blockchain Subcommittee.

Business & Corporate

Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses Act Assistance

Sarah Jane Hughes will answer questions from CLC members on the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses Act (2017) and the companion Uniform Supplemental Commercial Law for the Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses Act (2018)

Business & Corporate

Call for Future Contributions

Do you have something that might make a good contribution to next month's Cyberspace Law newsletter? Email Tom Kierner with your blurb! Have a less Cyberspace-y contribution? It might be a good fit for Business Law Today. Email Juliet Moringiello, and she will help you with the submission process.