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- Legal Issues - Archive
- Links to resources about legal issues affecting egovernment.
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- Legal Issues - Victoria
- Resources about legal issues affecting e-Government implementation in Victoria.
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- Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries
- SOPA and PROTECT IP would harm innovation, by Alex Howard. O'Reilly Radar, 22 November 2011. "Imagine a world where YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter had never been created due to the cost of regulatory compliance. Imagine an Internet where any website where users can upload text, pictures or video is liable for copyrighted material uploaded to it. Imagine a world where the addresses to those websites could not be found using search engines like Google and Bing, even if you typed them in directly. Imagine an Internet split into many sections, depending upon where you lived, where a user's request to visit another website was routed through an addressing system that could not be securely authenticated. Imagine a world where a government could require that a website hosting videos of a bloody revolution be taken down because it also hosted clips from a Hollywood movie..."
Added: 24 November 2011;
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- Shifting Landscapes: Social media - new laws for new attitudes - Report - in pdf format (518kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Report 5: Social Media New Laws for New Attitudes. DLA Piper, October 2011. "... In summary, the situation remains that, regardless of the fact that people's awareness of their legal rights and responsibilities has increased since 2008; in 2011 nearly two thirds of online Brits still don't understand the law and how it applies to them, with young people particularly ambivalent about whether they are breaking the law, specifically when using Twitter..."
Added: 8 November 2011;
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- Shifting Landscapes: Social media - new laws for new attitudes
- DLA Piper, Media Release, 31 October 2011. "In 2008, in conjunction with YouGov, we conducted a survey into bloggers’ liabilities. We aimed to gauge awareness levels amongst internet users of their legal rights and responsibilities when posting comment online, specifically on blogs... With this in mind, we have sought to build on our findings from the 2008 survey to establish how internet users' attitudes and understanding of their legal responsibilities have changed over the last few years. Once again, we asked YouGov to survey over 2,000 respondents, targeting a cross section of the British public online...."
Added: 8 November 2011;
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- Opinion: Website disclaimers - yes, they do work
- A recent case reminds disclaimers have a role, By Guy Burgess, Auckland. Computerworld, Thursday, 8 October, 2009. "Have you ever wondered if your website disclaimers are really necessary? A recent case provides a timely reminder of how a disclaimer can protect you from liability for website mistakes..."
Added: 8 October 2009;
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- IT Advocate: Web site terms and conditions
- CIOs must pay close attention to the terms and conditions listed on their Web sites if they want to avoid the risk of costly litigation, by David Downie. CIO, 8 September, 2009. "Many CIOs do not pay much attention to the terms and conditions on their company’s Web site. However, a recent case in the United Kingdom should serve as a wakeup call to all businesses to carefully consider the terms under which people use their Web sites and reduce the risk of costly litigation..."
Added: 8 September 2009;
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- Heads in the cloud
- by Damian Ward. MIS, Friday, 31 October 2008. "Cloud computing is exciting for CIOs who manage huge amounts of data on a restrictive budget. But what are the legal ramifications?..."
Added: 7 November 2008;
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