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E-Commerce Law

In preparation for establishing a "Website Legal Compliance" Department, there are several steps of analysis. First, I will analyze the target market for the type of legal services offered for "website legal compliance." Then, I will elaborate on the areas of law that would need to be addressed through this new department. Finally, I will distinguish between "preventative" legal services from those "handling legal liability."

The legal implications related to internet use are vast. For the purposes of our departmental use, I will restrict the analysis to the potential market directly or incidentally affected by constructed websites. This market includes the following: vendors, service providers, consumers, information-providers, Internet Service Providers ("ISP") and employers.

Vendors and information-providers have to be aware of the intellectual property law implications as it relates to the material they provide on their websites. "The protection of intellectual property includes industrial property whether in the form of a company's patented technology, its trademark identity, or its copyrighted publications" (Module 6). Examples of intellectual property issues include trademark issues related to domain names (Module 6) and the "cloning of entire publications to webpages that have no relationship with the originator of the intellectual property. Domain names are regulated by a federal statute called the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ("ACPA") which prohibits a person from registering "a domain name that consists of the name of another person, or a name substantially and confusingly similar thereto without that person's consent, with the specific intent to profit from such name by selling the domain name" (Cybersquatters Facing Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act). As for copyright protection, information providers, such as libraries, must also observe copyright laws when providing material on...

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