Topic
Digital Contracts
43 published works
ContractsProf Blog
Seventh Circuit Rejects Arbitration Clause in “Scrollable Window” Internet Contract
By Mark Burge
Have you ever been frustrated with seeming endless and practically unreadable scroll-down window that accompany many internet contracts? Or maybe you don't even think about them enough to be frustrated. The dozens…
Socially Aware Blog
Clickwrap, Browsewrap and Mixed Media Contracts: A Few Words Can Go a Long Way
By Joshua R. Stein, J. Alexander Lawrence
Courts have generally categorized online agreements into two types: “clickwrap” agreements and “browsewrap” agreements. Clickwrap agreements—which require a user to check a box or click an icon to signify agreement…
InsureReinsure
New California Law Creates Dilemma for Insurers and Their E-Contracting Processes
By Patrick Hatfield, Troutman Pepper Locke
California recently passed state law AB 1131 to establish new electronic process standards for life and annuity insurers.
ContractsProf Blog
Emailed Links to Forum Selection Clauses Constitute Sufficient Notice
Nancy Kim is, as you probably know, one of the nation’s, if not the world’s, leading experts on internet contracting. She is a contributor to this blog as well. Among…
ContractsProf Blog
New Scholarship from Your Blog Editors
One of the great pleasures of working on the blog is the opportunity to have virtual colleagues as a subject-matter specific supplement to one's local colleagues. I have for many…
ContractsProf Blog
Online Contracting Still Confusing for the Ninth Circuit
We earlier blogged on Nguyen v. Barnes and Noble in which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals among other things found that where consumers do not affirmatively consent to online agreements…
Texas Bar Blog
Open Government Seminar to focus on ‘big data,’ online agreements
By Lowell Brown
Experts in law and media will discuss the right to privacy in the age of "big data" and the dangers of not reading online agreements at the State Bar of…
ContractsProf Blog
Internet Contracting Mayhem
Modelmayhem.com (“Modelmayhem”) is a nationwide modeling industry website. Shana Edme (“Edme”) joined the site to further her modeling career. After several photographs of Edme modeling lingerie were disseminated and viewed without…
ContractsProf Blog
Computer Game Retailer Uses Contract to Claim 7,500 Immortal Souls
This story from Fox News:A computer game retailer revealedthat it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to aclause in the terms and conditions agreed to by…
Rush on Business
Legal Issues in Contracting on the Internet
By Rush Nigut
Pennsylvania business lawyer Anthony Cerminaro has a post on Legal Issues in Internet Contracting. The post references a comprehensive article from attorney Karl Belum of the Thelen Law Firm's San Francisco…