Creative Commons licenses attach to the work and authorize everyone who comes in contact with the work to use it consistent with the license. Creative Commons licenses are expressed in three different formats: the Commons Deed (human-readable code), the Legal Code (lawyer-readable code); and the metadata (machine readable code). Creative Commons licenses give you the ability to dictate how others may exercise your copyright rights—such as the right of others to copy your work, make derivative works or adaptations of your work, to distribute your work and/or make money from your work.

You will want to check to see that the online program you are interested in provides solid, standards-based content, is an accredited program, and the instructors are licensed by the state certification agency in the subject area of the course. (There are some strong and mixed views about whether that would fly in a court if one is licensed as a counselor or therapist. The issue of license portability also was raised, specifically in the context of forensic evaluation as an expert, but of course the notion of having cooperation between states would have greater implications for the profession as more consultation of all varieties becomes easier to do through the use of technology. The license is a statement as to what others may do with your work, so you should select a license that matches what you are happy for others to do with your work. Finally, you can also consult with a lawyer to obtain advice on the best license for your needs.

What information should your organization know, but you don’t. This information will get you started as you explore the online learning opportunity. If you want to see how this online endeavor works, check out some of the information for the other “audiences,” like the online teacher. The manager needs intelligent courseware and user interfaces, tailored to his level, without commercial `fuzzy information but with opportunities for in-depth study. For example, keep a backup copy of files on a home computer so you can e-mail important information to students.

The contractor shall provide technical and analysis support to the government in support of the USMCC mission and COSPAS-SARSAT. -provide technical support for the analysis of false alarms and interferers, the definition of service areas, the addition of new [Search and Rescue Point of Contacts], the evaluation of new COSPAS-SARSAT related technology, and the commissioning of new MCCs. In support of its contention that the work is beyond the scope of SSAI’s contract, the protester points to the language in the SOW that expressly provides that SSAI is not responsible for maintaining any proprietary software, the fact that no express language covering the work is contained in the contract, the fact that when SSAI’s contract was let Techno-Sciences was responsible for maintaining the proprietary online software, and the fact that costs under the contract have exceeded the estimated price of the work.

NOAA responds that the work being performed by SSAI under these task orders is within the scope of SSAI’s contract because of the broad language of the technical support section of the SOW, which was said to cover support of the entire COSPAS-SARSAT mission as well as the USMCC effort–both online and offline functions–with the sole exception of maintaining Techno-Sciences’s proprietary software. The record shows that the express purpose of the SSAI contract is to provide NOAA with the required support necessary to operate and maintain the USMCC. Consistent with this purpose, the language in the scope of work broadly defines technical support to include, among other things, analysis of new or changing Cospas-Sarsat requirements, and other support as required by the Cospas-Sarsat mission. C of the SOW specifically requires SSAI to provide technical and analysis support to the government in support of the USMCC mission and Cospas-Sarsat, without any stated restrictions.

The Open University Business School (UK) is a pioneer in identifying competencies of online coaches. An advisory committee of business, government, and educational leaders was formed and met annually to provide input to the hubsite managers. In fact, many companies have used patents to protect novel ways of doing business on the Web. However, it’s advisable to officially register the copyright for Web content that has high business value, since official registration provides irrefutable proof of authorship. Creating and Managing Information Security Policies Survey: Companies disregard data security breach risks Blogging on corporate laptops is risky business Convergence of security and network management has pros and cons Embarking on the ISO 17799 certification trail How can a CSO take ownership of a security program. The goal of any online business is to sell something, be it a product, service, or information. Your web site should reflect how you want customers to feel about your business. One of the top Internet business strategies is to choose relevant keywords for the most efficient search engine optimization.

”The article includes research on tipping points and a review of issues involved in building successful networks. Online work is organized according to workshop topics. Each workshop has its own folder with work related to that workshop in the folder. Also make sure to follow these rules of “Netiquette” to make sure your work is the best it can be: Give credit in your works cited list to anyone whose work you use. This overview focuses on copyright, which explicitly protects “original works of authorship. For online works created after 1977, copyright lasts for 70 years after the death of author. For online works, you apply a Creative Commons license to a work by selecting the license that suits your preferences. For offline works, you should identify which Creative Commons license you wish to apply to your work and then mark your work either: (a) with a statement such as “This work is licensed under the Creative Commons [insert description] License. The only difference between applying a Creative Commons license to an offline work and applying it to an online work is that offline works will not include the metadata and, consequently, will not be identified via Creative Commons-customized search engines. So they apply to all works that are protected by copyright law.

One of the largest benefits in working online is that the work is immediately archived — that is, it is available to everyone, anytime they want to access it. Working online is also, in some ways, more secure. Does online working save time because people do not have to meet anymore. Best practice human resource strategies would give particular attention not only to better job design and different working conditions associated with online work, but also to sophisticated strategies for building and sustaining work and knowledge networks. The online work uses the World Wide Web and we areworking to develop an increasingly user-friendly environment for this networking.

In this open world sustaining the business growth and creating competitive advantage is what everyone struggles to achieve. There is no short cut to achieve this competitive edge except to use expertise, experience and resources.

Short term and on the fly business houses tries to make quick money by unethically stealing the invaluable copyright assets of their competitors. Arimaan Global Consulting is the largest victim of these unethical and quick money making businesses.

These unethical business competitors have illegally copied copyright assets and contents of our website www.arimaan.com and claim it is their own. We request our clients and customers to be careful in doing business with these unethical business competitors. These unethical business houses don’t care about the customer service and business ethics.

Arimaan Global Consulting will be initiating actions against these unethical businesses based on the international copyright infringement law and DCMA. Arimaan Global Consulting expects cooperation from clients and customers to eliminate these unethical business viruses from this world.

Doing business with these unethical business houses will create long term loses and damage to your reputation in the industry you operate. In order to be competitive and improve growth, you have to analyze and research about the clients before partnering with them. This research will help you to create winning partnership with good clients and take your business to the future.

Based on our experience in protecting the online resources, we have decided to offer online content protection (OCP) service as highly customized solution to our clients to safeguard their resources and make online content to work for them. This service will help you to build your brand and create exceptional business value.

By Arun, CEO,

Arimaan Global Consulting,

www.arimaan.com

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Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights can become a valuable asset in the portfolio of your small business or corporation and should be managed judiciously.

One of the most daunting questions a small business owner faces when he or she decides to sell their business is “what do I have to sell?”. Aside from the phone number, address, and equipment, the main asset that is marketable is goodwill in most cases. Yet the concept of goodwill is elusive, amorphous, and difficult to quantify and monetize.

How do you measure goodwill? How difficult would it be for another business to amass the goodwill your business has accrued in the marketplace from scratch? How quickly could they build their own good will especially after the impending vacuum your exit will inexorably create? Sure, accountants have artful methods of ginning up the numbers in support of your goodwill appraisal, yet all the silver tongue number crunching will still leave you uneasy and leave your prospective bidders unconvinced.

One surefire way of providing flesh, structure, and a skeleton to support your goodwill appraisal is the Intellectual Property portfoliio of your business. In particular, if you assert to a prospective bidder for your business that your goodwill is worth $x, you may bolster your argument with a United States Patent and Trademark (USPTO) registration and/or a state registration of your Trademark. At least now your asserted appraisal of your goodwill has support in the form of a nice seal and ribbon which may release concerns your prospective purchaser may have regarding how they may be able to monetize your goodwill.

In addition, if you are in the manufacturing industry, a prospective bidder may feel more at ease if you can point to some patents you have on the products you make, or the proprietary methods and processes you use in order to conduct your business. Your prospective bidder may take comfort in the fact that he or she may be given some leverage to assert in the marketplace with patent protection.

Now, on the flip side it is true that a portfolio of patents, trademarks, and copyrights can get a bidder to sit up straight and get their eyebrows creasing may also be difficult to appraise and monetize in their own right. Not all patents, trademarks, and copyrights are enforceable or even valuable. Many patents are not worth the paper they are printed on. Many trademarks upon which there is a registration are actually enforceable due to their inherent weaknesses. As such, if you are in the position of purchasing a business with an Intellectual Property portfolio, you may want to enlist a Patent Attorney to take a look at what is underneath the hood and do some diagnostics on the true strength and value of the value of the Intellectual Property portfolio.

As such, business owners who desire to sell their business sometime in the distant future would be well advised to immediately start building up a strong Intellectual Property portfolio consisting of Patents, Trademark registrations with the USPTO and their Secretary of State, and Copyright registrations. And on the other side of the transaction, a business purchaser should be advised to enlist the services of an experienced Intellectual Property attorney to evaluate the strength of each Intellectual Property asset to arrive at a fair value of the business.

For more information on patents, trademarks, and copyrights please visit the Los Angeles Patent Lawyer website.

A: A wise man once said, “The biggest difference between a copyright and a patent is the number of lawyers it takes to do the paperwork.” There is a point to be made there, mainly that if this wise man had paid his attorney to copyright that tidbit of wisdom I probably would have had to pay him five bucks to use the quote.

Copyrights, trademarks and patents are similar in that they are designed by law to protect your rights of ownership, but that’s where the similarity ends. A copyright protects a creative work; a trademark protects a brand or company identity; and a patent protects an invention or process.

A copyright protects the rights of anyone who creates an “original work of authorship.” A copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce the work; prepare spin-off works based on the copyrighted work; and to sell, perform and/or display the copyrighted work in public.

Copyright protection is afforded to eight categories of creative works: literary works (the written word); musical works (lyrics, music, melodies); dramatic works (plays, scripts, screenplays); artistic works (pictorial and sculptural), sound recordings (LPs, CDs, audio tapes); choreographic works (dance, pantomime); audiovisual works; and architectural works (blueprints, designs, renderings).

An original work is automatically copyrighted the moment it is put into a fixed format such as a paper copy or recording. In other words, once you put your original story in writing or make a recording of an original song, your copyright is automatically secured. From that moment on your work has copyright protection for your lifetime, plus 50 years after your death.

Registering a work with the U.S. Copyright Office is not required, but since it is relatively simple and inexpensive to do so, I advise that you register a copyright for each work you wish to protect. Also, your copyright must be registered in order to take legal action against someone who might infringe on the copyright in the future.

You can register a copyright without the assistance of an attorney. Simply visit the U.S. Copyright office website at http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ and download the appropriate form. Complete the form and send it in with a $30 nonrefundable filing fee. This must be done for each individual work you wish to protect.

A patent is a form of protection granted to an inventor that protects his invention in the United States for up to 20 years from the date of application. Patent law states that, “whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof may obtain a patent.” Owning a patent gives you the legal right to stop someone else from making, using or selling your invention (or one that’s very close to it) without your permission. However, proving that someone is infringing on your patent is often difficult and usually requires a trial to settle the dispute.

Since the first U.S. patent was awarded in 1790, more than five million patents have been awarded. The patent office receives more than 230,000 patent applications every year and I can tell you from personal experience that a turtle on Prozac moves faster than the patent process. Patents can take several years, truckloads of paperwork, and considerable legal fees to obtain. The cost of obtaining a patent can run from $500 for a simple design patent to $50,000 and more for a complex utility patent. However, if your company has a truly patentable idea, you would be wise to invest the time and money required to secure your rights. A good patent can be a valuable business asset.

While you can file a patent yourself, I strongly advise that you use an attorney since a naively written patent application often isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Just recently my attorney did a patent search for me only to discover that a patent for a similar product was already in place. However, due to the ineffectual language of the patent application, the patent was practically impossible for the owner to enforce.

Good news for me. Not so good news for the wise man who wrote his own patent.

Here’s to your success!

Tim Knox tim@dropshipwholesale.net

Some of the more noteworthy achievements of this Act are the following:

1) It is now a crime to break any anti-piracy measures in the software.

2) It is no longer legal to make, sale, or give away software or devices that were invented for the purpose of cracking codes enabling the illegal copying of software.

3) Limits the liability that ISPs (as far as copyright infringement violations) when information is transmitted online.

Most people don’t want to pirate software. Most of us by nature want to do the right thing. The problem lies in educating people that it is stealing when you bootleg, pirate, illegally download, or acquire copies of software that you didn’t pay for. It’s one of those “white lie” types of crimes for most people, and they don’t see how it will hurt anyone to copy a game from a brother, cousin, uncle, or friend. Someone paid for it, after all. The problem is if 10 million people are duplicating software at $50 or more per copy, the loss of software royalties and profits are staggering. The Software Copyright Act seeks to protect businesses from losing money this way and curtail illegal downloading of copyrighted music and software.

A Software Copyright Statement Protects Current and Future Works

If you have a site dedicated to sharing and distributing open source software, it is a wise decision to have a software copyright statement that explains the limits of use for your software, as well as the limits of your responsibility for those who use your software. I also recommend getting an attorney to look over the statement before posting it just to be sure there are no legal issues that you may be unaware of.

A software copyright statement doesn’t have to be a 10 page booklet on the law or the protections that copyright offers; it should be a simple short paragraph stating the basics and protecting you from litigation and/or responsibility. Your software copyright statement should also establish your ownership of the material.

A software copyright statement is only part of the process required to protect your software; it is also a significant deterrent to those who would abuse your copyright and/or your kindness to use and distribute your software. Even if you are charging people for the use of your software, you still need to protect the labor you have put into making not only the software but the distribution method, the website, the payment method and the thousands of other things that are part and parcel of the business model for your software distribution.

Most software developers, coders, and programmers aren’t as concerned nearly as much about associating their name with the products they create. They also want to protect future potential income from their software. By protecting all your work with a software copyright statement you are not only protecting current works, but also future works as well.

An international software copyright should not, however, be confused with a patent. Copyrights provide creators with the ability to prevent others from directly copying the software code. A patent can actually limit the use of the software. Because of this, patents are a hotly debated topic when it comes to software.

The biggest thing to know about international software copyright is that your code is essentially protected the moment you create it. This is, unless you have some kind of contract through your employer that all code you create belongs to them.

The problem many companies face to enforce software copyright is that computers are not permanent fixtures in a company. Computers are disposable hardware. Because technology keeps evolving, software needs to be updated when new computers are purchased. Rather than purchasing new copies of software when the computers are replaced, companies are notorious for reusing old copies of the software. They are also famous for replacing 10 computers with the software installed with 40 new computers and installing the 10 copies of the software on all 40 computers. This is breaking software copyright.

There are no major differences between traditional policies for American copyright and international software copyright which make legal issues, troubles, and woes that much easier to deal with. By having a unified international front there are ramifications and legal actions that can be taken around the world without going through a great deal of international red tape. If you think dealing with the American government is bad, you should see how much fun it is to deal with the American government and another government for a legal action.

The agreement between nations for international software copyright is probably one of the soundest possible decisions that can be made as military secrets of all governments have some degree of software to keep them operating. While it isn’t quite as simplistic as stealing a computer program to unlock the defense secrets of a nation, having access to certain source codes could be problematic in the absolute best-case scenario. Keeping secrets isn’t the only thing that makes this agreement so valuable, it is however, one of the most vital.

Perhaps one of the greatest things to protect and honor software copyright is the peace of mind that is available to software developers in America and other technologically advanced countries. Their source code won’t be allowed to be stolen and used against them at a later date by someone in a developing nation with cheap labor and other overhead costs that American corporations simply cannot compete with. This could be devastating to the economies of technological societies if it were allowed to happen. The agreement for an international software copyright prevents that from being allowed to occur.

10. Failure to register a federal copyright for company-developed software

Your company has spent months, and maybe years developing the next-big-thing. You’re out there licensing it to customers, fighting off competitors, and trying to maximize your revenues. What would you do if a customer was misusing your software? What if a competitor was copying parts of it to use in its product? There are various ways to respond to these problems, but one of the easiest to way to strengthen your claims is to register a copyright for the software with the United States Copyright Office. Registration provides you with an enhanced ability to have a court prevent infringing use of your software, and a greater amount of damages that are recoverable. The best part is that registration is relatively easy and inexpensive.

9. Licensing technology too broadly

So you’ve landed that big deal with that big customer. You’ve carefully priced the deal based upon your expectations of how the customer is going to use your technology – by a specific group within the customer’s large organization. You’re hoping that the success of this deal will lead to a greater adoption of your technology within the rest of the company, and ultimately more revenue for you. Unfortunately, you later learn that this one group is sharing your technology throughout the rest of the company, with no additional license fees to you, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Why? By failing to carefully and narrowly draw up the license grant in your agreement, you’ve unwittingly granted the entire company the rights to use your technology, and you’ve left a pile of cash on the table.

8. Failure to provide detailed support and maintenance policies

Too often, once a company’s technology is ready to be licensed, determining how to support the technology becomes an afterthought. General and non-descriptive obligations like “providing telephone and email support” and “providing updates” are invitations for disagreements and missed expectations. When is phone support being offered? How quickly will you respond to problems? What is considered and update and what is a new product for which you would charge the customer separately? Many times, you need your customer to provide you with certain information about the problem before you can diagnose and fix it. Set the appropriate expectations in your support and maintenance policies and avoid these issues in the future.

7. Not contracting customers to recurring support fees

Customers want and expect that you will be there to support your product, assist with problems, and provide them updates when you add features or fix bugs. Customers also expect that you will regularly charge them for these services, so why do so many technology vendors sell a product to a customer and fail to structure regular and recurring support fees? In general, a technology vendor’s highest profit margins are realized through a support fee stream, and not in the upfront license charge.

6. Inadequate non-disclosure and non-compete agreements with employees and contractors

The technology business is one of the most competitive industries in the market. Why take a chance losing your competitive advantage by not ensuring that your intellectual property, customer lists, trade secrets, and other sensitive information are properly protected through appropriate agreements with your employees, contractors, and vendors? Finding and using some form agreement that you saw floating around on the Internet somewhere may actually make matters worse if you don’t fully understand the terms. Moreover, simple steps can be taken to ensure that anything developed by your employees is, and remains, your company’s property.

5. Giving away intellectual property ownership too liberally

Many technology companies develop customized technology for their customers, or make customized modifications to their existing technology on behalf of a particular customer. And most customers argue that if they’re paying for it, they want to own it. But giving away your company’s intellectual property in these instances can prevent you from reusing it for other customers – effectively shutting down a potential source of revenue in the future. And many times, your customers may not need to actually “own” the developments – a license right can often do the trick.

4. Using overly broad or subjective acceptance testing

It is not uncommon or unreasonable for customers to want to “kick the tires” of your technology before they pay for it. Problems arise when the customer has an unreasonable expectation of what the technology is supposed to achieve, and either want to withhold payment, or force you to provide extra services to meet that unreasonable expectation. This especially manifests itself when a customer includes acceptance testing language in a contract which is not tied to objective and realistic standards. Although it can be a laborious effort, taking the time to objectify these standards with the customer in the contract can save you significant time down the road, and get you paid faster.

3. Offering liberal source code escrow release conditions

For software developers, you know that your source code is the “crown jewels” of your business. It is the core of your technology, representing months or years of your blood, sweat, and tears. Yet many software companies are willing to give it away, for free, to their customers. How? By entering into a source code escrow agreement with a customer and allowing it to be released to them in situations where the code still holds value for you. Many customers will demand the source code be released to them if you stop supporting the software, but the intellectual property in the code may still be used in your other products or technology, effectively giving your customer the tools it needs to duplicate your technology. Creating very narrow and specific source code release conditions can minimize this impact.

2. Undervaluing technology

What is your technology worth? It’s a difficult question, and value can be measured and determined in many ways. Many new technology companies feel compelled to undercharge for their technology in an effort to break into the market. Although there is certainly some merit in that, I see vendors consistently undervaluing what their technology is worth, leaving significant revenue on the table. Understanding the impact and loss to the customer if they DON’T license your technology is the first key to pricing your product. Plus, under-pricing your product can create an impression that the technology is “cheap” – not a label that will build a positive reputation of your company in the long run.

1. Using a form license and/or services agreement that doesn’t fit your business model

Capturing exactly how you want to provide your product or services to your customer, allocating the risks, and creating each party’s obligations and rights, is not a simple or quick process. Replicating some other company’s form agreement not only exposes you to risks that you may not be aware of, but potentially violates the other company’s copyright in their agreement, and raises the risks outlined in the other points of this list. Having a customized agreement created for you that aligns with your business processes, mitigates your risks, and addresses the laws that apply in your jurisdiction for your industry is a key component in running a successful technology business.

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Date Submitted: August 25, 2005

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“Has This Ever Happened To YOU?”

“STOP…THIEF!”

Let us say that you have been working on your web site on the Internet for awhile and have built up a pretty nice little home business [or two, or more] – on the Information Highway. One day you open up your email…

You See An Angry Email…and not even from “your” customer. This person actually bought YOUR product from someone else not authorized to sell YOUR product!

Here is an email from an ANGRY customer [not yours!]

…demanding that you…

“send my order right now or else!” …and “where is it”….

…and “you scammed me!” and “I will turn you in for fraud.”

Wow! You are so upset! What in heaven’s name are they talking about anyway? You have never heard of them before now. You have worked hard on your online home business customer service. You have always made sure that your customers are happy and completely satisfied.

But just to be sure, you spend a couple of hours searching all of your previous sales records for their name.

That is what happened to us…

Finding no record of the so-called angry “customer” in any of our business sales records or files, we then started emailing back and forth with them trying to find out “the name of the person” that sold them OUR software?

Who the devil has “scammed” them using our good image? Why would they want to ruin our small home business anyway? What kind of people are they?

We finally got a web address from this angry customer. When we got to the thief’s web site…guess what…there was our Software Box eCover that we designed from scratch! No question that it was our unique and copyrighted work!

The thief had colored over our company name and copyright on our eCover. You could even see part of first letter of our name still on our eCover! Not a very thorough thief.

Yikes! Someone was STEALING “our” products right off the Internet!

A thief is stealing our very special products that we spent months and months creating. They have no conscious about ruining our online small home business.

If you have ever heard of “Internet Stress” – this is it!

Well, this actually happened to us back in 2002. Luckily we found out about it. We eventually found out how to stop our software from being “pirated.”

What an awakening we had!

Our basic honest and naive minds would never have thought that there were such unscrupulous people out there stealing OUR copyrighted materials!

Couldn’t happen to US! Right?

WRONG!!!

IT DID!

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…so how did we stop the thief?

Well, we didn’t want to contact the thief directly and just slap his hand! He would just close that web site down and move on to another one and still “pirate” our software anyway!

We needed time to think about what to do…

We belong to one of those “private web site clubs” that has a “member’s only forum.” We decided to post our problem on the forum and ask other members for some advice. Maybe they had similar experiences with Internet Copyright thieves! The members all said to “hire a lawyer.”

…hire a lawyer?

We did try to hire an online lawyer and here is what he told us:

Here is what we found out: It costs at least $5,000 just to get a lawyer to represent your “copyright infringement” case in court. Of course it would cost only about $250 for them to send “one” letter to the thief!

Then we remembered that one of the members of our forum mentioned to us that we need to send a “DMCA Notice” to the thief’s web host and that it would knock them off of the net!

What the heck is a DMCA Notice anyway? We went back to the drawing board and did more research…

Here would be another at least $250 for a lawyer to send a DMCA Notice on our behalf.

So, could we send one ourselves?

YES! And we did…and YOU can too.

Legally, the web site host has to honor your DMCA NOTICE.

And they have to honor it within 10 days!

You can view a sample “DMCA Notice” here:

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