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Robert Masud, Esq. - ArticlesRobert Masud, Esq. is the principal of Masud & Company LLC, a law firm for the world of business, finance and the internet. Find out how the lawyers at http://www.masudco.com can help you. Employer Liability When Employees Use Internet Communications For Offensive PurposesWhat happens when you have a rogue or even out of control employee that uses an office computer to send or even post threats of great bodily harm or uses an office computer to generate other highly offensive communications? Can an employer who ends up being sued for such conduct... Marketing Through Blogs Presents New Legal RisksIn recent times blogs have taken on new meaning on the Internet and World Wide Web. Once considered nothing more than rather offbeat diaries, blogs have become major marketing tools at the present point in time. In fact, today millions of consumers from all walks of life and from all... Sec Proposes Anti-fraud Rules To More Closely Regulate Hedge FundsRecently, the SEC proposed changes that would affect the investment in hedge funds as well as other investments pooled. On December 27,2006, Release No. 33-8766 (the "Release") proposed an anti-fraud rule that would be new under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act"). This new rule revised criteria... Clamping Down On The Use Of Trademarks By Third PartiesWhen Internet users search online for information, they use search engines like Yahoo, Google, and MSN. Because some page owners have paid for some of its links to the search engine websites and the links come up whenever the website owner's results appear as a search result, there have recently... Bloggers Need To Beware Of Violating FTC Deceptive Practice Standards When Making EndorsementsThe FTC has handed down an advisory opinion that may have dire consequences for companies that employee individuals who are involved in blogging and promote those companies products or services while blogging. According to the FTC, this may hold true even if these employees are undertaking this blogging on their... Combating Cyber-Squatting And Other Domain Name Maladies: An Overview Of UDRP ProceedingsBusinesses that are working to establish an easily identifiable Internet presence oftentimes utilize their trademarks in their domain names in order to better direct customers to their website venues. Unfortunately, disputes many times occur when a business learns that some other individual or entity is using that enterprise's trademark or...
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