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Intellectual Property and Internet Law - Leading National Authority
Ian C. Ballon, Attorney of Greenberg Traurig LLP is an acknowledged authority on Internet law and e-commerce. Mr. Ballon has established an outstanding reputation as a skilled litigator for a wide range of intellectual property matters. Based out of offices in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, he is also the executive director of the Stanford University Law School Center for E-Commerce.
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Global / International Intellectual Property Law
These resources cover the international treatices and law which affect and govern Intellectual Property across national boundaries. It covers the Berne Convention which is the center piece of global Copyright law as well as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organiztion (WIPO), the TRIPS Agreement and much more. A must read for the Technology Entrepreneur or Executive.
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Copyscape
A very specialized search engine which can detect plagarism of your web content. Specify one of your own URLs and Copyscape will readily locate other websites with very similar pages and can easily locate plagarism. If you write a lot of valuable text-based content like articles or tutorials, this is a fantastic way to locate sites which have stolen your content.
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IP Law Attorney - William S. Galliani
Mr. Galliani specializes in counseling clients in connection with legal issues associated with complex electronic and software technologies. He is one of the top Intellectual Property Law specialists in the United States.
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Intellectual Property Protection and Code Obfuscation - Technical Approach for Software Developers
(15seconds.com) Not a legal article - these are some high level technical issues and strategies programmers, software developers and publishers can explore to physically protect their proprietary code. Code disassembly or decompiling and theft is one of the most serious problems software businesses face - leading to strategic disadvantage and vulnerability exploits. Protect yourself from hackers and compettitors alike.
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Website Privacy Policy Guidelines - A Correct Privacy Policy is Required by Law
(Internet Advertising Bureau) A source of lots of important and authoratative standards information, this article by the IAB is a detailed and thorough description of how to prepare and implement a professional Website Privacy Policy. Practically speaking, every website must have a correctly prepared privacy policy to be in compliance with all laws and a business is at risk without a proper privacy policy. This article is an excellent start to formulating a compliant privacy policy and eliminating any legal exposure in this important area.
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CA Law Governing Unsolicited Email Advertising - Business and Professions Code Section 17529-17529.9
Any business which may itself send unsolicited email or who may contract a third party to send unsolicited email on it's behalf needs to be completely familliar with this and other laws which provide for stiff penalties including prison time. Cover all the scenarios - there have been cases where a company did not know a 3rd party partner was going to specifically send out 'spam' on their behalf and they still got into trouble. Reading this will motivate you to design a robust opt-in and opt-out email marketing system.
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False Advertising Has Stiff Penalties as well as Some Broad Definitions - Business and Professions Code 17500-17509
Did you know that it is generally illegal to overstate any aspect of your business or to publish anything which could be misleading or is not explicitly true? An example of what might concern an Internet Company would be to advertise hosting services and use language which leads a consumer to believe that the servers are owned and fully controlled when in fact said Internet Company is merely a participant in a typical reseller program. Know these and other danger zones in your quest for doing business right.
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California Information Practices Act of 1977 - Civil Code Sections 1798-1798.97
These are the basic laws governing the handling of information about individuals, businesses and other entities. There are also more recent laws to know, but these are the original laws which determine how companies must treat 'personally identifiable information'. The 'Privacy Policy' which all websites must have arises largely out of this set of legislation. There are a lot of important details that a business must follow exactly and it is very easy to be out of compliance. Protect all sensitive information your business handles. Non-compliance can bring about serious consequences.
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