Francine | July 22, 2010

Facebook owner and CEO could lose 84% of his company. Why? Because he wasn’t paying attention to the protection of his valuable intellectual property.

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Francine | May 10, 2010

One issue that is sure to arise is the question of who really owns your content, and what can other SL users do with your content. By way of illustration, let’s look at the SL Terms of Use / Terms of Service. In part, Section 7.3 reads as follows:

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Francine | December 10, 2009

In researching this issue, the FTC studied a number of online virtual worlds: some intended for adults only, some appealing to teens, and some intended for young children. The results of the FTC’s research was quite telling

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Francine | October 19, 2009

Legal Copyright Infringement is honestly an oxymoron- if it qualifies as Copyright Infringement, then it is, by definition, illegal. This being said sometimes it’s hard to know where the gray area of legal vs. illegal starts.

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Francine | August 13, 2009

So you ask, how to register a trademark? Well before you think of actually submitting either the Intent to Use or the Statement of Use form required for registering your trademark, you want to make sure you have a logo, phrase, design, word, or device that can, in fact, be protected by trademark. A common mistake entrepreneurs make is choosing a mark that is not strong, and thus, cannot be protected.

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Francine | August 5, 2009

A student, Joel Tenebaum, was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading music, which amounts to $22,5000 per download for over 30 songs. Does the punishment fit the crime? What do you think? I say, “ABSOLUTELY! “

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