Legal Issues When Hiring Someone to Build Your Site

Given the costs associated with hiring employees, a vast majority of businesses now hire independent contractors to build and/or maintain their websites. This raises a host of legal issues.

Laws for Blogs

A Blog is short for Web Log and has become a new and exciting form of communication. It is like a diary or a journal personal or corporate that is posted on the Internet for public viewing and updated from time to time. It enables people to publish comments, ideas and opinions for others to read. Besides being a personal from of expression, corporate blogs offer a platform for marketing new ideas, communication channels between management and employees, discussion of industry and media trends, news coverage and even political expressions. We also have law blogs, school blogs and marketing blogs.

Where is Immigration Help and NY Immigration?

There are many ways to reduce the Immigration problems, the better ways has always been to educate your self with the immigration issues before you start processing.

Should Lawyers use Metadata?

The question clearly beckons, should lawyers review metadata in documents? Is reviewing this data ethical, when the author of such data likely had no idea they were creating it? Metadata by its definition is simply, data about data. It can contain all sort of identifying information. One of the easiest ways for metadata to be left in a document is for the comments section to leave the comments feature turned on. Similarly, if you leave track changes turned on, the receiving attorney can not only read confidential comments that were meant to be intra-office or privileged communications between he attorney and client, but also the attorney can see what content was deleted from the document.

What is Digital Rights Management (DRM)?

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, or as some people call it, Digital Restrictions Management. Put simply, DRM consists of various restrictions applied in music or video files, so their use (such as playback) can be controlled by a third party, usually the company holding the copyright for a song or movie.

Cell Phone Records

Cell Phone Records are no longer available online but there are still ways to Catch Em Cheating.

Viacom Sues Google

Viacom, a media company, has recently sued Google for $1 billion, for the copyright infringement on the website YouTube. More lawsuits are predicted to come from the company Viacom, who claims the website YouTube has infringed on its copyrights. It is a battle of two giants and the outcome is less than certain.

Internet Content Theft Hurts Honest Online Article Authors

How bad is content theft on the Internet these days? Well it is pretty bad and although it has not reached epic proportions yet it seems to have a very unfortunate hyperbolic trend line there. As an online article author I often notice people stealing my work and then I see it on the Internet somewhere without any mention or credit for it.

What Every Employee Should Know About Non-Compete-Non-Solicitation Contracts

A non-compete contract is an agreement signed by an employee where he or she agrees that they will not engage in certain employment within a certain geographic area for a certain period of time after they quit or are fired. Likewise, a non-solicitation contract binds the employee not to contact the employer’s customers or remaining employees under the same conditions.

Microsoft Busted on Paid Wikipedia Modification

Wikipedia has become one of those odd internet sites that have evolved into a phenomenon. Alas, some companies don't like what is written about them.

Norway to Ban Itunes Downloads Online?

When it comes to downloading music on the web in a legal fashion, Itunes is the undisputed leader. Well, maybe not in Norway...

Who's Data Is It Anyway?

Recent events and scandals have highlighted what can happen when an employee uses an employer's equipment or connection to the Internet for non-work related communications - whether such communications are through their employer's e-mail or not.

A New Music Copyright Lawsuit Against YouTube

In the middle of November, Universal Music filed an extensive copyright lawsuit against YouTube, not long after Google moved to purchase it. So, what does this portend?

Why Are You Reading This?

Have you noticed that we are stupid citizens in this country? I mean that., we are stupid. Look what we have on TV or in the movies. Even include the Radio waves and the Internet.

Introduction to UDRP Disputes

This article highlights the main procedural and substantive issues arising in proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the UDRP).