Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Property: A Practical Guide to Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents & Trade Secrets

Copyright and the Internet

The Internet poses both enormous promise and great risk for companies. Although the Internet opens a vast array of new business opportunities to customers without the need to establish brick-and-mortar stores, a company's valuable trade secrets and other assets can be disseminated easily to millions of others with just a keystroke. Moreover, improper use of a company's resources can lead to liability for infringement, defamation, and harassment.

Perhaps the three most significant issues confronting businesses in the electronic age are the use of unlicensed software, which can subject a company to civil and criminal liability; improper use of the Internet by employees, which can also subject a company to liability; and ...