It is an almost daily occurrence in modern life. You sign up to a web service and get confronted with a tick box asking you to agree to terms and conditions. When people do this, though, they often believe that well-known and trusted corporates have...
Continue ReadingB2B Unfair Standard Form Contracts If you do business with small businesses after 12 November 2016 then a new contracts regime will apply to your standard form contracts. This applies whether you are a small or large business. If you have a standard-form contract (e.g. Terms...
Continue ReadingA domain name is a URL or website address. Domain names usually fall into two different categories, either: descriptive of the business that owns the domain name, or consisting of a trade mark/trading name/company name/business name belonging to the business. Some businesses opt for both types of domain...
Continue ReadingCopyright is the right to prevent others from copying and modifying what the law calls a “copyright work”. There are certain types of “copyright works” listed in the Copyright Act. Only these types of works attract copyright. Examples of copyright works are written works (e.g. books, blogs,...
Continue ReadingBusinesses we deal with are sometimes confused how to protect their content. Here are our top 3 tips for protecting your content: Mark each page/post that has content you have generated with a © (copyright symbol), the year(s) and the person/organisation that owns the content. The...
Continue ReadingSocial media sites take impression and click-through revenue from articles generated by the hard work of their membership. Some sites can also copy and make use of any of your posts, including altering them, for whatever purpose that they want, including making all of the content private...
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