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Website terms of use reduce risk

Millions of people each day accept or click OK to terms of use on websites and internet facilities. The terms of use (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=41) regulate legal relationships, particularly contractual dealings between users and site owners. Terms of use are useful because most online intellectual property (IP) and general business law issues can be partially or fully treated or neutralised with comprehensive, customised and site-specific provisions. This is apparent from common law (ie court decisions in Australia and elsewhere), and our day to day practice as specialists in IP (commercialisation-knowledge-management/intellectual-property-asset-manag.html), internet law, IT and E-business law (ip-tech-e-biz/it-e-business.html).

Full post as published by Lightbulb IP blog on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).