Book Information
Author: Joy R. Butler
Category: Internet/Law
Format: 310 pages; paper
ISBN: 978-0-9672940-2-5
Pub Date: May 2010

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
See Summary Table of Contents

Part One
Establishing Your Online Presence

1. Introduction
   • Are You a Cyber Citizen?
   • Who Should Read This Book?
   • How to Use This Book
   
   
2. Checklist of Legal Issues for the Cyber Citizen

Part Two
Knowing Your Online Rights and Responsibilities

3. Protecting Your Online Content
   • Copyright Law Basics
   • Your Exclusive Rights in Your Copyrighted Work
   • What Is Not Protected by Copyright?
   • Who Owns the Copyright in an Online Work?
   • Copyright Law Formalities
   • Specific Online Content Protected by Copyright
   • Other Laws that Protect Your Online Content
   • Options if Your Online Content Is Used without Your Permission

4. Registering the Copyright in Your Online Work
   • Benefits of Copyright Registration
   • Necessity of Registering Your Online Work
   • Copyright Registration Basics
   • Online Registration
   • Online Fill-In Form
   • Group Registration, Generally
   • Group Registration of Your Online Work as an Automated Database
   • Group Registration of Your Online Work as a Serial
   • Preregistration
   • Available Copyright Registration Methods for Specific Online Works

5. Selecting Your Domain Name
   • What Is a Domain Name?
   • Your Relationship with Domain Name Registries, Registrars and ICANN
   • How to Select a Domain Name
   • Qualifying a Domain Name as a Trademark
   • Trademark Basics

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6. Protecting Your Domain Name and Personal Name
   • How Domain Name Disputes Arise
   • How to Avoid Domain Name Disputes
   • Resolving Domain Name Disputes through the UDRP, ACPA and Traditional Trademark Lawsuits
   • Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)
   • Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)
   • Traditional Trademark Lawsuits
   • Bad Faith under the UDRP and ACPA
   • The Commercial Use Requirement
   • Protecting Your Personal Name on the Internet
   • Use of Trademarks and Names in Post Domain and Sub Domain Paths

7. Protecting Your Technology
   • Patent Law Basics
   • Requirements for Patentability
   • Business Method Patents
   • Filing a Patent Application
   • Protecting Technology through Trade Secrets
   • Protecting Technology through Contract

8. Using Other People’s Material
   • Permissions and Rights Clearance Basics
   • Use Protected by the First Amendment
   • Copyright Fair Use
   • Trademark Fair Use
   • Parody
   • Public Domain Materials
   • Using Other’s Copyrighted Materials
   • Using Other Protected Materials
   • Mentioning Real People Online
   • Using Music on the Internet
   • Obtaining Permission

9. Monitoring Your Relationships with and Obligations to Online Visitors
   • Online Privacy Policy
   • Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
   • Spam and Unsolicited Commercial Email
   • Cyber Stalking and Cyber Bullying

Part Three
Engaging in Specific Online Activities

10. Services Used by Cyber Citizens
    • Web Hosts and Other Service Providers
    • Sample Terms Used by Service Providers

11. Blogs and Podcasts
    • What Is a Blog?
    • Who Owns the Blog Content?
    • Blogging Anonymously
    • Can You Be Fired for Blogging?
    • Bloggers as Journalists
    • What Is a Podcast?
    • Interview Releases

12. Social Networking Sites and User Generated Content
    • What Is a Social Networking Site?
    • What Is User Generated Content?
    • Best Practices for Creators of User Generated Content
    • Best Practices for Sites that Allow Online Visitors to Post User Generated Content
    • Digital Millennium Copyright Act Protection
    • Impersonation and Use of Celebrity Names on Social Networking Sites
    • Wikis

13. Fan Sites, Gripe Sites, and Parody Sites
    • Commentary Sites
    • Safe and Risky Content for an Unofficial Fan Site
    • Criticism, Gripe and Parody Sites
    • Use of Trademarks and Celebrity Names in Commentary Sites
    • Disclaimers for Commentary Sites
    • Real-Life Examples of Acceptable and Unacceptable Commentary Sites

14. Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
    • What Is Peer-to-Peer File Sharing?
    • Media Industry Actions against Individual File Sharers
    • Media Industry Actions against Internet Companies
    • Other Media Industry Responses to Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

15. Email Newsletters, Discussion Forums and Online Communications
    • Online Communication Methods
    • Legal Issues Common to Online Communication Methods

Appendices

1. Appendix A: Resources and Forms
   
   • General Resources for the Cyber Citizen
   • Tips and Sample Forms for Registering the Copyright in Your Online Work
   • Tips and Sample Form for Registering Your Domain Name as a Trademark
   • Sample DMCA Takedown Notices and Counter Notices
   • Sample Website Development Agreement
   • Sample Terms of Service for Website

2. Appendix B: Glossary of Terms