For years, brand owners have asked online retailers to help them find and punish unauthorized resellers for their violations. Unfortunately for brand owners online retailers typically take a percentage of third-party sales within its marketplace and are hesitant to enforce seller pricing agreements and risk losing revenue. As a result of leaks in the supply chain, resellers obtain authentic products and sell them online below their minimum advertised price or attempt to violate trademarks and copyrights, making it difficult for brand owners to protect themselves. Copyright and trademark infringement can hurt a brand's functionality severely by affecting its Buy Box share, revenue, and, most importantly, brand reputation. This panel discussion will address different solutions to deal with these international online marketplace issues that in-house counsel of consumer brand manufacturers and distributors deal with daily.
These template website terms of use are intended for use on non-transactional, information-based websites. The terms of use are not intended for use on websites through which users can place orders for or buy goods, services or digital products. If the website permits User Generated Content (UGC), then additional "acceptable use" terms will be needed, for example, a user's undertaking that he/she will not post UGC that is defamatory, infringing or illegal, and details of the website operator's notice-and-take-action procedures.
In a tight housing market it can be tempting to buy (partly) let property, if you don’t need the space (yet) or as an investment. But don’t forget: If you need the let space yourself, it won’t be easy to end the tenancy.
In this Top Ten are some important points for foreign purchasers to consider before entering into negotiations to buy land in Australia.
This QuickOverview provides a high level overview of land transfer tax in Ontario (Canada) for companies that own or are considering buying real estate.
Sample language for online terms and conditions.
A presentation on using automated and online compliance training.
More than ever, shareholders are leveraging the internet to promote their views and influence the actions of companies. Shareholders
have established dissident websites and used internet message boards to meet and coordinate. This article explains the online tools available to dissident shareholders that you as in-house counsel must understand and teaches you what to do about them.
These Online Social Media Principles have been developed to help empower associates to participate in this new frontier of marketing and communications, represent the company, and share the optimistic and positive spirits of the company's brands.
This is a discussion paper on financial options to assist in the battle against online IP Piracy in the United Kingdom.
Pirated digital content and counterfeit goods now represent a substantial percentage of online traffic and a serious threat to brand owners. Luckily, there are solutions for how to protect intellectual property rights through monitoring, enforcement and preventative measures.
In many states, notaries public can take advantage of electronic signature related technologies to remotely notarize documents. In this article, find out how remote online notarization (RON) helps businesses function safely and more efficiently.
This Social Media and Online Communication Policy sets forth the policies of the Organization on the proper use of social media by the organization's employees, suppliers, contractors, members, and other organization representatives.
This article explains how electronic signature laws and principles in the United States laid the foundation for the advent of remote online notarization.
This QuickCounsel reviews the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act and related regulations to a company's online activities.
What is the framework for on-line sales in the United States? What are the requirements for your web site and apps? What about terms of use and privacy policies? How do you market, and what are the concerns? How do you spread the word? How do you stay out of trouble with the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general? How can you stay out of Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) trouble? The taxman cometh — who gets paid on what? This session will include a checklist of e-commerce issues, and an introduction into the legal issues related to your company''s website. What basic agreements do you need to have? How do you take payments over the web? Should your website be certified or safe harbor qualified? How do you avoid COPPAing a plea? What do you do about privacy? What are best practices for your site and for your privacy policies? How do you make the Digital Millennium Copyright Act your friend?
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