E-commerce and Internet Law Services
E-commerce involves a broad range of legal disciplines, which is hardly surprising since, on one level, the
Internet is just another medium for doing business. However, it represents an exciting, innovative medium that
creates new possibilities for working relationships and doing business in ways that were simply not possible before.
We can advise on many aspects of e-commerce and Internet law: from major corporations to rapid-growth start ups;
from web designers to Internet trade associations; from Internet service providers to providers of high-level
Internet support software.
We can advise on the following areas:
Commercial Trading
- website terms
- e-commerce terms
- disclaimers
- e-security issues
- privacy policies
- online defamation
- joint venture and other partnering arrangements
Marketing & Intellectual Property
- brand and image protection
- branding strategies
- copyright infringement; database protection; software copyright infringement
- trade mark registration and trade mark protection and infringement
- confidential information and trade secret theft
- domain name disputes and domain name recovery
- reputation protection and passing off
Human Resources
- employment contracts
- employment and internet usage policies - preparing the policy and training staff regarding monitoring
and enforcement
- Internet-related disciplinary issues
Regulatory Compliance
- data protection/privacy issues - undertaking data protection audits, setting up data protection
compliance manuals and staff training and data protection compliance issues
- distance selling laws
- electronic commerce regulations
Related Issues
- corporate matters
- defamation
- taking new offices and other premises
- reputation protection and passing off