Please post the hyperlink to one federal case which influenc

Please post the hyperlink to one federal case which influences commerce on the internet and summarize in not less than 100 words what that case accomplishes.

Solution

1)  federal laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act provide stiff civil and criminal penalties for pirating and other unauthorized use of software.

2) If a licensor or owner of software or intellectual property brings a civil action, it may be possible to obtain an injunction and monetary damages. The owner or licensor may then choose between actual damages, which includes the amount lost because of infringement, plus any profits attributable to the infringement.

3) State and federal consumer protection govern these transactions, which regulate advertising, warranties, and disclaimers.

4) Although the Supreme Court has recently shown considerable hostility toward expanding the reach of federal regulation under the Commerce Clause doctrine, the recent cases are not conclusive of the Court’s position with respect to the application of the dormant Commerce Clause to commercial Internet activity.

5) The Act contains content and procedural requirements, gives regulatory authority to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and establishes a timetable for a \"do not email\" registry to be created, whereby business and individuals may opt out of receiving corporate marketing emails.

6) Federal and state governments have made numerous attempts to regulate obscenity and child pornography on the Internet. General federal laws regulating these two areas ostensibly apply to the Internet.

7) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is in charge of regulating e-commerce as a federal agency. The FTC has posted guidelines to help businesses navigate the myriad of e-commerce issues and factors that need to be addressed in order to do business across borders.

8) The existing federal statutes that protect consumer privacy from private intrusions are the result of a reactionary and piecemeal approach.  

9) After the Great Depression, the federal government sought to expand its regulatory reach into realms such as regulation of in-state industrial production and worker hours and wages that would not necessarily be considered “commerce” under the more traditional definitions set forth in Gibbons and Swift.

10) The dormant Commerce Clause doctrine stands for the proposition that, since regulation of interstate commerce is a power affirmatively granted to the Federal government, the states have no right to regulate it in a way that unduly burdens interstate commerce.