Cloud Computing Law

Have you heard about domain names that sold for over a million dollars? Inspired by this, you imagine registering a great domain name, hanging onto it for a while, and then selling it off to become the next multi-millionaire. It could happen, but don`t count on it! First of all, many of the truly great domain names are already taken. Second, the dot com bust took some of the wind out of inflated domain name prices. (If you sell your domain name for millions of dollars worth of stock in a ...
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Privacy is the control of one's own personal information, control over what others know about one, and control over how others may use or exploit the personal information. Policies and practices for protecting privacy aim towards minimizing the collection of personally identifiable information. Therefore, the basis of privacy is anonymity, where no personally identifiable information is collected. Making compulsory, the disclosure of personally identifiable information, as under current WhoIs ...
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RSS is commonly defined as really simple syndication. So, this means that any material contained in a feed is available for syndication, right? Well no, not exactly. It means that the content contained in an RSS feed is in a format that is syndication friendly, if the copyright holder allows for syndication. Offering a feed for syndication does not in fact grant any legal rights to anyone to reuse the feeds content beyond what the Copyright laws grant as Fair Use. In practice, while your feed ...
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(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved ===================================== How safe is anyone's copyright online? Well imagine my surprise when I clicked on a website link to discover that someone had not only copied my website to their server - but was selling my ebook and undercutting me in the process! Some dishonest person operating from Eastern Europe had literally stolen my entire business and I discovered it only by sheer luck. After some very lengthy and threatening emails I got them ...
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As the internet progresses in both popularity and structure, DRM is going to become very important in moving away from the early free-for-all towards a more paid-for model. However, there is an argument over the degree of restriction of freedom that DRM appears to lead toward. Copyright has always included an element of 'fair use', which gives the consumer a certain degree of freedom. For example, you are allowed to quote or criticise another person's work or, in certain countries (not in the ...
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Every individual needs to protect their intellectual property by getting its patent. This necessitates the need to file a patent application so that all your business and ownership rights are well protected and no one is able to strip you off your rights. You should not allow anyone to get a patent on your hard work or invention. If you do not prepare any Dallas patent application and submit it to the concerned authorities, you will soon lose your invention and someone will get ...
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3. The Internet as a Collective Nervous System Drawing a comparison from the development of a human infant - the human race has just commenced to develop its neural system. The Internet fulfils all the functions of the Nervous System in the body and is, both functionally and structurally, pretty similar. It is decentralized, redundant (each part can serve as functional backup in case of malfunction). It hosts information which is accessible through various paths, it contains a memory function, ...
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The Questions are getting louder and the possible solutions are many and some solutions are filled with venom. The Question being asked? How do we protect our creative rights from things such as piracy, and copyright infringements appearing in many creative forms? This question keeps popping up in regard to more simple things as writing books to more technological factors of entertainment and the like. Consider this: A. As long as the assumption is made, that we must *protect* ourselves from ...
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I wrote my latest e-book "The Seven Fatal Mistakes That Almost Every Business Owner Makes on Their Web Site" as a lead-generation tool to get new subscribers to my e-zine. I decided to promote it a different way. It's different from anything I've ever done before, and it brought spectacular results after just three weeks, and continues to bring in new subscribers daily. First, as I've mentioned already, I'm using the e-book as an incentive for people to join my mailing list. An e-book ...
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There are many systems that can lock your software or document, allowing you to control access to that file. But the problem arises with assuming that this will stop all theft? A well thought out, thorough protection system can deter theft, but it cannot stop it 100%. An "unbreakable" protection system simply does not, and will never exist. If someone really wants your information, they can get it, even if it takes years of work. SO WHAT'S THE POINT? WHY USE ANY PROTECTION AT ALL? There is no ...
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Checking my e-mail one Sunday morning, I immediately noticed a message. A chill went down my spine. The subject line said, "your e-book has been stolen". I always knew something like this could happen, but never thought it would happen to me... and so soon! I have only released my e-book a few months ago, and already the "digital pirates" went to work. E-book theft is the biggest fear authors have, especially if they are working on their very first e-book, their "baby". Most new authors take ...
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E-books, cheaper than even paperbacks, are the quintessential "literature for the millions". Both erstwhile reprint libraries and current e-book publishers specialize in inexpensive books in the public domain (i.e., whose copyright expired). John Bell (competing with Dr. Johnson) put out "The Poets of Great Britain" in 1777-83. Each of the 109 volumes cost six shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only ...
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http://www.doi.org/ The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most well-defined query, Boolean operators and all. Directories created by human editors - such as Yahoo! or the Open Directory Project - are often overwhelmed by the amount of material out there. Like the legendary blob, the Internet is clearly out of classificatory control. Some web sites - like Suite101 - have ...
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OverDrive - an e-commerce, software conversion and e-publishing applications leader - has just expanded an e-book technology centre by adding 200 e-book editors. This happened in Montego Bay, Jamaica - one of the less privileged spots on earth. The centre now provides a vertical e-publishing service - from manuscript editing to conversion to Quark (for POD), Adobe, and MS Reader ebook formats. Thus, it is not confined to the classic sweatshop cum production centre so common in Less ...
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A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but such software is likely to conquer other niches (such as the legal and medical professions). It allows users to select bits and pieces from a library of e-books, combine them into a totally new tome and print and bind the latter on demand. The client can also choose to buy the ...
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