Content category: "Internet Law"
What is Cybersquatting?
Posted on 12. Aug, 2007 by admin.
Cybersquatting, according to the United States federal law known as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. (more…)
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Subject of Copyright
Posted on 28. Jul, 2007 by admin.
Copyright law protects “original works of authorship”. To produce something, it does not always take hard work only. You need to engage a certain portion of creativity as well. There is no need for the work to be the first of its kind, e.g. a novel simply needs to be the independent product of the author and not copied from some external source. Copyright does not protect against independent creation of similar or even identical works. (more…)
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UDRP: General Information
Posted on 18. Jul, 2007 by admin.
To begin with, the UDRP stands for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. The UDRP is a mean through which trademark owners can seek protection of their rights in cases where they have been violated by someone who have registered a domain name identical or similar to the trademark. It is important to know that the UDRP is an administrative out-of-court dispute process. (more…)
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Phishing: Legal Responses
Posted on 02. Mar, 2007 by admin.
On January 26, 2004, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed the first lawsuit against a suspected phisher. The defendant, a Californian teenager, allegedly created and used a webpage designed to look like the America Online website, so that he could steal credit card information. Other countries have followed the lead of the U.S. by tracing and arresting phishers. (more…)
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Multi-RBL Check
