Internet Law
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Internet Patents Worldwide
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Internet Advertising Law
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Digital Media: Copyrights and Piracy
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Domain Name Law & Disputes
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Can You Patent This?
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E-Commerce Taxation: The U.S. Approach
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Why E-Businesses Move Offshore
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Gambling: Online and Offshore
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Online Gambling: Profits & Concerns
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Offshore E-commerce Taxation
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Internet Search - Public Domain v. Intellectual Property Rights
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Emerging Trends: Search Engine Regulations
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How Tax Authorities Audit E-Businesses
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New! The first book in Internet law series in partnership with Oxford University Press (Click here).
E-Books Series is a concentration of the most relevant information on e-commerce and Internet laws and regulations around the world.
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 | Internet Patents Worldwide
To be granted a patent, an item submitted to the U.S. Patent Office (USPO) must be a "patentable subject matter." Patentable subject matters include compositions of matter, processes or procedures, articles of manufacture, machines, and any improvement of these categories. With the advent of the Internet, new items have been added to the U.S. patentable subject matter list such as online software and Internet business models. This article introduces the U.S., EU, and international approach on patentable inventions. The USCS §101 defines the patentable inventions under the U.S. law. It states that "whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title [35 USCS §§ 1 et seq.]" | | | | | Preview | Buy Now | | |  | Digital Media: Copyrights and Piracy
To fight Internet piracy, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) concluded two copyright treaties in Geneva in 1996: the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), collectively known as the "WIPO Internet Treaties" which entered into force in 2002. The WIPO Internet Treaties set out the minimum standard of intellectual property protection with respect to the delivery of copyrighted works on the Internet. This summary will address the following questions, what copyright and related rights are protected on the Internet under the WIPO Internet Treaties, what is the purpose of the WIPO Internet Treaties, and what are the two technological adjuncts to the rights required by the WIPO Internet treaties. |  | Internet Advertising Law
The Internet is becoming a more and more popular medium for marketing. Nowadays, most companies are using the Internet to sell and advertise their products and services. The Internet permits low-cost advertising, worldwide reach, and the possibility of interactive communications with potential customers. All of these are advantages of online marketing. At the same time, online marketing has some disadvantages of its own. Before the Internet was invented, the printing industry was the most popular marketing medium. Print marketing mainly includes brochures, product catalogs, direct postal mail, product packaging, and trade journals, newspapers and magazines. | | | Preview | Buy Now | | Preview | Buy Now |  | Can You Patent This?
Intellectual Property offers inventors quite a few ways to protect their inventions like copyrights and patents, among others. Traditionally, patent applications were related to complex mechanical, chemical, or pharmaceutical processes. With the advent of the Internet, and especially after a land marking case in the United States in 1998, an increasing number of patents have been issued to software and Internet companies that have devised new ways of doing business. Business method patents are very lucrative for Internet companies because they can stop other companies from using the patented business method for approximately 17 years. Besides, the company that owns the patent can exploit it by licensing the new method. |  | Domain Name Law & Disputes
It is fair to say that a domain name is a business' name and address on the Internet. Companies usually register a domain name similar or identical to their corporate name or protected trademark, or both; this facilitates their customers' search for the company. Domain name disputes arise when two parties want the same domain name. Often, this domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark. Initially, these domain name-trademark disputes were solved by applying traditional domestic trademark laws. Yet the globalization of the economy and the international exposure given by the Internet, triggered the enactment of international rules to solve domain name disputes between multi-jurisdictional parties. | | | Preview | Buy Now | | Preview | Buy Now |  | Why E-Businesses Move Offshore
What is offshore e-commerce and how it works, what are the top reasons why a business moves offshore, what factors a company must consider before moving offshore, and examples of offshore e-commerce companies are just some of the topics addressed in this unique Offshore E-commerce e-book. Choosing an offshore jurisdiction requires the analysis of key aspects like government structures, confidentiality issues, banking services, information technology, etc. This e-book assigns one section to the specific topic of jurisdiction in offshore e-commerce. Then, the reader will learn the most common business models for offshore e-commerce and the issue of the e-company headquarters. The last two sections of this book are dedicated to the international regulation of offshore e-commerce and the main players in this regulatory endeavor; and the offshore corporate structures, including the most commonly used corporate structures and its management. |  | E-Commerce Taxation: The U.S. Approach
E-commerce raises challenges to the governments' characterization of its income due to its delivery methods and jurisdiction issues involved. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development -OECD- has provided guidelines as to how governments should consider income from e-commerce transaction for tax purposes. The United States and the EuropeanUnion have taken different approaches on this topic. This e-Book's objective is to offer an overview of the United States approach to e-commerce taxation. This e-Book addresses the tax implications of e-commerce, the major issues raised for this new market practice, and its jurisdiction debate. | | | Preview | Buy Now | | Preview | Buy Now |  | Gambling: Online and Offshore
Offshore finance centers are playing a major role in the online gambling sector. This e-Book provides articles on how some offshore centers are promoting and regulating online gambling. It addresses the issues of online gambling in Gibraltar, Belize, Antigua, Bermuda, Malta, and Panama, among others. There may be multiple answers to these questions depending on the corporate structure and goals of an offshore online gambling company. |  | Online Gambling: Profits & Concerns
Online gambling is just the shift of gambling activities to the cyber-world. Online gambling types range from traditional poker and casino games to sophisticated electronic trading stocks. Gambling has always been a controversial issue and its controversy continues in this new network environment. Taxation and moral apprehension are the two major concerns of the governments and the international community when dealing with the issue of online gambling. | | | Preview | Buy Now | | Preview | Buy Now | | |  | Emerging Trends: Search Engine Regulations
Internet Governance is a well-debated but unresolved issue. No government, domestic, or international organization, has been able to delimit its parameters despite rational pro and con arguments. It is fair to say that, currently, the Internet is governed by the famous French phrase: lessee faire le se passé (Let it be, let it ensue). Nevertheless, governments under their legislative and policing powers, have been prompted to regulate those specific Internet-related issues that deserve immediate intervention, imperative aspects of the Internet like the telecommunication regulations, the data retention mandate for certain cases, like Internet gambling, Child Pornography, Online Marketing, Privacy and Data Protection among others. |  | Internet Search - Public Domain v. Intellectual Property Rights
Search engine companies follow highly technical procedures to increase search capability and offer better service, yet, violation of intellectual property rights may be at stake. Intellectual property laws and principles have been widely used in search engines companies' lawsuits. This e-book covers a majority of the legal issues such as: copyright infringement, trademark violations, keyword and meta tags disputes and image searches, the use of thumbnails, deep linking, image infringement, the Initial Interest Confusion Theory, page-jacking OCILLA's safe harbor, a new copyright third party liability doctrine among others. | | | Preview | Buy Now | | Preview | Buy Now | | |  | Offshore E-commerce Taxation
Is there an international consensus as to taxation of e-commerce? What domestic tax polices have been adapted to the new phenomenon of offshore e-commerce and its taxation? Is tax neutrality still an applicable principle for taxation of offshore businesses? These and other attention-grabbing questions are addressed by this e-book. |  | How Tax Authorities Audit E-Businesses
E-commerce is reporting huge sales worldwide. According to the United States Census Bureau ("USCB"), e-commerce sales in the U.S. for the year 2006 were estimated at $108.7 billion; an increase of 23.5% from US e-commerce sales in 2005. European Union ("EU") Western countries had 97 billion on estimated e-commerce sales for the year 2006. This figure shows an increase on e-commerce retail sales of 37% over those reported in 2005. | | | Preview | Buy Now | | Preview | Buy Now | | |
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