Managing legal risks associated with intellectual property on the web

Abstract

Intellectual Property (IP) has taken a prominent place on the web. Today's organisations need to know the ways in which their websites can be the target of costly IP litigation. Organisations also need to know how to manage and protect their own IP that they expose through their web presence. This paper provides an overview of the legal risks associated with IP on the web. Managing such risks begins with gaining a clear understanding of how to address the salient issues related to IP that any organisation has to take into account when it has a web presence or provides a service using the web. Towards this end, a comprehensive survey of existing IP case law in the context of web content is provided. The survey focuses on three essential IP areas: copyright, patents, and trademarks.

Panlingual Globalization

“…The two models might be diffi cult to reconcile (see Kilgarriff 2000 ). Moreover, the legal rules under which providers of lexical resources operate are obscure (Zhu et al 2002 ;Kienle et al 2008 ) and globally unharmonized (Fern á ndez Molina 2004 ). There is little relevant case law, and apparently none on lexical resources.…”