INTERNET LAW

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The law and the Internet – Wild west or not? Although some people seem to think otherwise, the Internet is not outside the law. In fact the Net is regulated by the same laws that apply to communication or trade in any medium, and anyone using it should be aware that they could find themselves breaking […]

Parents are paying the price for their children’s filesharing activities. April 20, 2005 – As the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) scales up its fight against people who download copyright music files, it said around a third of the internet account holders now facing legal action are thought to be parents whose accounts have been used to […]

September 2000 – Congressional investigators say in a September 2000 report that a huge majority of federal Web sites fail to measure up to the Federal Trade Commission’s standards for Internet privacy, including the FTC’s own site. At the behest of legislators, the General Accounting Office graded 65 of the government’s most popular World Wide Web […]