Rights of the Copyright Owner
As we noted in some other posts, copyright law can be tricky for unqualified people. In many cases, when one thinks about copyright, one automatically thinks that copying someone else’s work without...
View ArticleCase Decisions Under the UDRP
We have been receiving lots of inquiries about the exact way in which UDRP panelists process their cases, so in this post we will try to shed some light on this matter. The first thing panelists do is...
View ArticleExclusive Rights
By definition, copyright provides authors with the ability to guard their works from being taken, used, and exploited by others without having explicit permission. The author of a copyrighted work has...
View ArticleOnline Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA)
The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is a portion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act known as DMCA 512 or the DMCA takedown provisions. It is a 1998 United States...
View ArticleSome General Thoughts on Privacy
Privacy on the Internet has become a really great concern to ISPs, their corporate clients as well as their regular users – that makes it virtually anyone. Unlike the European Union (EU) countries and...
View ArticleHow to file a valid DMCA complaint?
If you ever find that somebody is indecently using your copyrighted works on their web site(s), you shoud file a valid DMCA complaint. It is very important that your DMCA complaint contains all the...
View ArticleAbout Website Copyright Notices
First of all, it is not mandatory that one uses a copyright notice on his/her web site. There are, however, some advantages in doing so. Even though a copyright notice is usually very simple, using one...
View ArticleUSPTO
USPTO is an ancroynm for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The role of this agency is to register trademarks and to grant...
View ArticleWhat is ACTA?
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has become a major topic of discussion when it comes to Internet user rights and intellectual property. It used to be an ultra-secret agreement that...
View ArticleThe Fall of ACTA
Today’s been a great day for most of us – the regular Internet users. After yesterday’s vote at the European Parliament, today ACTA was officially pronounced dead, as far as Europe is concerned. This,...
View ArticleAbout Website Privacy Policies
Many people believe that a good web site must have a Privacy Policy page. This is generally a publicly displayed document which outlines the restrictions on the ability to collect and use customer...
View ArticleThe Fair Use Doctrine
In our opinion, the Fair Use is an important subject which needs serious elaboration. We’ve examined many articles with controversial interpretation of the Fair Use doctrine. In this article, we will...
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