How To Protect Your eBooks From Piracy And Copyright Infringement!

Shockingly, 4 out of every 10 eBooks offered for sale on the Internet are pirated. Material from legitimate eBooks are taken without the owner's knowledge, and passed off as original content every single day! Discover the top 4 ways to prevent this from happening to you.

Compliance of Tax Return in Electronic Commerce Taxation

Introduction - In this chapter, we shall look at the role of disclosure in a self-assessment environment in light of electronic commerce; emerging legal issues of compliance of tax return of e-business? I shall describe extrinsic aids for statutory reconstruction, and finally I shall give my proposals for statutory reconstruction to meet the requirement of technological advancement.

Web Design: Photograph Copyright Issues

When designing a web page, you need to be careful about what pictures you use. Many people simply grab them off Google - they see a picture they like, and they put it on their web site. Unfortunately, copyright law protects the person who took the picture as the owner - if you’re not careful you could end up facing a lawsuit.

Free Content without Articles, Blog Feeds, and Copyright Issues

While auto-generating sites from articles and RSS feeds are all the rage, and fast, nothing beats old-fashioned manual site creation for the long-term. Auto-generation typically requires a program or script. But unless you roll your own, your moneymaking sites are leaving a footprint (don't believe everything you read, they are trying to sell software) that the search engines will catch up with in the next 6-12 months; mark these words (this comes from personal experience).

E-Commerce Patent Blackmail --- You May Be Next!

Over the last eight years, the promise of the Internet has been to level the playing field between small businesses and major corporations.

Using Copyrighted Material in Blogs and Forums

Do you repost blog or discussion forum posts from other people, or even entire articles, in your blog or to mailing lists and discussion forums? It's a common practice, but be mindful - sometimes it's OK, and sometimes it's a copyright violation. But besides the legalities, keep in mind that proper respect for intellectual property is just good networking.

Yahoo to Prohibit Competitive Keyword Bids Containing Trademarks

In a recent announcement e-mailed to advertisers using Yahoo Search Marketing, the search engine giant states no more competitive bids on keywords containing trademarks will be allowed as of March 1 2006.

Image Linking and Copyright Violation

Do not link to images on another site using the img tag without explicit permission from the site owner!

What The Heck Is SEO Copyrighting And How Can It Help Me As A Small Business?

SEO copyrighting is incredibly time consuming and if you do not have the ability or the time to do it yourself then you would have to hire a professional which can get expensive, since each page can only target one or two search terms.

Legal Issues About Trademarks And Domain Names

Trade marks are a name or symbol that are used to distinguish the goods of services of a particular company from others. Similar to copyrights and other signs of intellectual property, the effects o...

Determining Ownership of Copyright and Software

A fundamental question that arises in many disputes is the most obvious - who owns the copyright in the software? Legal ownership and legal advice in most cases may be determined by reference to fundamental copyright principles.

How to Avoid Copyright Infringment in Your Domain Name

One of the most important aspects of choosing a domain name is that it should be non-infringing. This is not an easy task since most unique names have already been registered. This article shows you how to avoid the legal mine field when registering new domain names.

Hijacked! What To Do When Your Website is Stolen

How to find out if your website's content or graphics have been stolen and what to do if it has. The internet, being the free and open place that it is, makes it easy for would-be thieves and not-so-savory companies to lift anything and everything from another website. It is important to take a stand when infringing material is found. Consequences of another individual or company using your written material, graphics, or even logo can damage your reputation, get you blacklisted by search engines, and more.

Reporting a Cyber Crime: What You Need to Know

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, most law enforcement experts agree that the vast majority of cyber crimes are not reported, which allows the perpetrators to continue to carry out their crimes and victimize others. The FBI, in partnership with the National White Collar Crime Center, has helped establish an online source of help, the Internet Crime Complaint Center, where internet users can file complaints for any type of online crime.