Learn what they are, their purpose and important elements that manage the relationship between the website provider and users from Andrew Buck – all in 3 minutes. View the video – http://www.pitblado.com/pitu_video70.html View this video from YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY-ji8QdrE8 Please contact Andrew at buck@pitblado.com if you have any questions about this, or any other legal matters.
It’s one of the newest and most rapidly evolving areas of law, social media law. In this short video, I discuss the area of law and the types of services that we are providing to clients.
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has weighed in on a very contentious and important issue in Internet law, known as hyperlinking. A hyperlink is a word, phrase, or image that a computer user clicks on, taking the user to a new document altogether, or to a new section within the current document the user [...]
During the course of my practice I’m often asked to provide social media law advice, typically to organizations or individuals who want defamatory, proprietary or privacy invasive content removed from the Internet. Once content has been successfully removed from a website I often discuss with clients issues related to Internet cached webpages. So I thought it would be helpful to provide some general information [...]
In a USA Today article “TwitPic, WordPress to go dark for online SOPA protest” Yamiche Alcindor reported that WordPress, along with other websites will not available on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to protest the proposed US legislation, Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. WordPress is the host site for PitbLAWg. If WordPress [...]
The NHL is preparing to drop the puck on a league-wide Social Media Policy. CBC reports the policy will include “a social media blackout window before, during and after games, as well as during practice and any other team obligations”. Like any other legal document, the impact of the NHL’s Social Media Policy will depend [...]
The contestants on American Idol apparently sign them. So do the participants in the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics. A confidentiality agreement (CA) or non-disclosure agreement is an agreement by which one or more parties disclose confidential information (CI) to one or more parties, and perhaps vice versa. They are often signed at [...]
(Previously published on Brian Bowman – On the Cutting Edge on May 13, 2009) You have probably seen the ® or ™ symbol on products or in advertisements. But what do these symbols mean and when is it appropriate to use them? Generally, the ® or ™ symbols are used in connection with a trade-mark, which is [...]
