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Theft of Your Digital Photos and Videos

Whether it s Youtube for videos or Flicker for photographs, the ever increasing demand for entertainment leads to the creation of more and more websites dedicates to displaying amateur art in the hopes of widespread popularity. As evidenced by the recent sale of YouTube to Google for $1.65 Billion, once a website gains widespread popularity, riches are not far away. This trend has increased the demand for new and entertaining content. Most times such services rely on self-submitted videos, photos or articles, but as more sites pop up, available supply dwindles. Consequently, a phenomenon commonly referred to as website hacking has become more and more popular. This form of hacking

Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets Protect Your Invention!
...wait before receiving notice of the USPTO decision. However, on several complex filings, I have seen the process take up to six years. Believe me, it is worth the work, the wait and the investment if a successful outcome from ...
occurs when an individual uses some service or sight to put up their own video, photo or blog, in order to share that particular medium with known friends. Hackers looking for new and original content will often hack this information and use it on their own site, in an attempt to gain hits and popularity in the effort to be the next YouTube.


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Anti-Cyber Squatting Consumer Protection Act Update

Our law firm receives a lot of calls from people and companies who are being threatened with an Anti-Cyber Squatting Consumer Protection Act claim because they registered a domain name identical or similar to a trademark held by someone else. Inevitably, we hear the words Network Solutions allowed me to register the domain, so there is no way someone can say that I did anything wrong.


Of course, Network Solutions and the other registrars do little to ensure that a person registering a domain has legal right to do so. In fact, about the only thing registrars do is make each person who purchases a domain affirm that they are not interfering with some else s legitimate

Border Check: Recording Your Intellectual Property With U.S. Customs & Border Protection
...period of the trademark at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Thus, when a trademark is renewed with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, it must also be renewed with the CBP Recording Copyrights In order to record a copyright ...
trademark rights. The fact that you are able to register a domain doesn t mean that you won t get sued for having done so under federal law.


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What Does Computer Law Cover And Why Is It Necessary?

A decade or so ago there was no such thing as computer law. This niche of the legal system has come into being out of necessity with the proliferation of the Internet and the issues that come along with the technology that makes worldwide communication and transactions possible.


Traditional law does not cover many of the issues that occur in the online realm. Therefore it is crucial that we have a particular branch of law that exists to deal with legal problems that may arise by the very nature of the Internet and are not able to be covered by local jurisdictions.


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