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September 2000 – State regulators may be giving non-profit organizations their first road map showing how online fund-raising appeals will be monitored. When charities include a request for donations on their Web sites, computer users around the world can view the appeals. That has led some non-profit officials to worry that many small, local charities would […]

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September 2000 – British Telecommunications (BT) is prepared to take legal action against ISPs in the U.S. unless they cough up cash for using hyperlinks. BT is currently in negotiation with a number of ISPs in the U.S. after it was revealed in June that BT had patented hyperlinks way back in 1976. The patent was […]

Can company be held liable if an employee redistributes an electronic subscription within or outside of the company, in violation of your subscription agreement? Yes. A federal court in Maryland so held in a case in which an employee posted a subscription e-mail report to a company intranet. The employer had paid for a single […]

United States copyright law outlines several ways that works enter the public domain, thereby becoming freely useable by anyone: (1) if the copyright has expired, (2) if the author has relinquished his or her right to protect the work, (3) if the work was created by the federal government. Duration of Copyright Due to changes […]

Online publications are copyrighted just like any other creative work. This means that it’s generally illegal to use materials from the Web (other than short extracts taken for research/educational use) without getting permission from the copyright holder. Pictures, writing, music or other audio, graphics and other elements of webpages are covered by this. Brand names […]