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Tag: Internet

  • Exchanger

    Exchanger Exchanger in the E-Commerce Law An exchanger (also sometimes called a virtual currency exchange) is a person/entity engaged as a business in the exchange of virtual currency for real currency, funds, or other forms of virtual currency. Exchangers generally accept a wide range of payments, including cash, wires, credit cards, and other virtual currencies,…

  • Closed Virtual Currency

    Closed Virtual Currency Closed Virtual Currency in the E-Commerce Law Non-convertible (or closed) virtual currency is specific toa particular virtual world, such as a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), and cannot be exchanged for fiat currency under the rules governing its use. Examples: Project Entropia Dollars; Q Coins; and World of Warcraft Gold. All…

  • Convertible virtual currency

    Convertible (or open) virtual currency Convertible (or open) virtual currency may be either centralized or decentralized. Convertible virtual currency has an equivalent value in real currency and can be exchanged back-and-forth for real currency. Examples include: Bitcoin; e-Gold (defunct); Second Life Linden Dollars; and WebMoney. “Bitcoin” (capitalized) refers to both the open source software used…

  • List of Top Free Legal Sites in English in 2015

    List of Top Free Legal Sites and Law Blogging in English in 2015 List of Top Free Law Sites in English, according to SimilarSites The following are the most visited legal Blog Sites on the Internet, according to SimilarSites (Nov 2015), by countries: List of Top Popular Law Sites in the United States Uscourts.gov Lexis.com…

  • Legal Firm Data Storage

    Legal Firm Data Storage There is digital information: case files, emails, pleadings and other documents and shared files, even instant messages everyone in the firm generates each day. And then there’s information governance: the rules and framework for managing all of a law firm’s electronic data and documents, including material produced in discovery, as well…

  • Social Media Confidentiality

    Social Media Confidentiality Social Media Confidentiality for Lawyers By Sunny S. Shapiro, a special counsel in the San Francisco office of Sedgwick LLP, and Steven D. Wasserman, a partner of the firm. Lawyers using social media must keep clients’ confidentiality in mind. The explosive growth of social media has given attorneys more platforms for engaging…

  • Cyber Attack

    Cyber Attack Cyber Attack Definition Cyber attacks are socially or politically motivated attacks carried out primarily through the Internet. Attacks target the general public or national and corporate entities. A cyberattack is deliberate exploitation of computer systems, technology-dependent enterprises and networks. Cyber Attacks in Law Firms By Susan Kuchinskas. She covers business and the business…

  • Internet Research

    Internet and Computer-Aided Research as Legal Research Source Constitutions Statutes and Ordinances There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia.Administrative Law There is more information about this subjet related to the field of […]

  • Domain Names

    Domain Names…

  • Google Buzz Privacy Concerns

    Google Buzz Privacy Concerns Google, like all multinational corporations, must abide by non-U.S. jurisdictions privacy laws when they launch products in those jurisdictions. There were a storm of protest and outrage in 2009-2010 over alleged privacy violations and several authorities also had questions about how Google Buzz has met the requirements of privacy law in…

  • Twitter

    Twitter Legal Proceedings Twitter is “currently involved in, and may in the future be involved in, legal proceedings, claims and government investigations in the ordinary course of business. (Twitter is) involved in litigation, and may in the future be involved in litigation, with third parties asserting, among other things, infringement of their intellectual property rights.…

  • Legal Ontologies

    Legal Ontologies Note: for more information about legal ontologies, read the legal metadata website here. Legal Ontologies are the expression of the metadata section of legal documents according to a formalized ontology language such as OWL. They have proved crucial for representing, processing and retrieving legal information, “Legal ontologies differ from ontologies in other fields…

  • EnAct

    EnAct Introduction to EnAct EnAct is a comprehensive intelligent legislation drafting, management solution, web-based electronic repository and delivery system that has been built to enable the Tasmanian Government (Australia) to produce, distribute and enable public access to reliable, up-to-date, searchable consolidated Tasmanian legislation (1). At the core of the EnAct system is an SGML database,…

  • Legifrance

    Legifrance Legifrance is the official French online legislation database. It is an in depth resource for French, European and International laws, norms and regulations Legifrance was created in 1998 and completed in 2002, when also changed its name, becoming “the Public Service of Dissemination of the French Law on the Internet”(1). In january 2008 a…

  • LexFind

    LexFind LexFind is an enterprise search tool designed for legal information. It is, basically, a versatile, robust search engine for legal documents. It is able to deal with large sets of documents with variable structures. “LexFind is a project developed by the Institute for federalism of the University of Fribourg. The focus of the project…