Related link - Website Legal Compliance  

Website legal compliance is now under serious consideration by lawmakers in Washington. The U.S. Congress is now considering two proposed bills, which if enacted into law, would provide ground-breaking weapons for law enforcement and content owners to enforce intellectual property rights. If you're a content owner that provides content on the Internet, you have an important stake in the current legislative process.

The competing bills currently under consideration - The Protect IP Act (Protect IP) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - are both aimed at websites that are focused on infringing the intellectual property rights of content owners. What's both creative and controversial about these proposed laws from a website legal compliance perspective is the enforcement mechanism - shutting down the offending websites regardless of whether they're U.S. based or foreign based websites.

Read my article here:  Website Legal Compliance - Congress Struggles With Protect IP And SOPA Legislation .

Chip

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