Science, Computers and Technology Law

This is FindLaw’s collection of Science, Computers and Technology Law articles, part of the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library. For related topics, see the Law Library’s Communications Law section. Here you will find a collection of articles dealing with everything from how to plan a successful law firm website to whether or not your employer can monitor your corporate email account. If you are looking for information on how to limit your firm’s liability risk of an employee’s misuse of the internet, we have that too. Articles below are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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Taking Legal Actions

If you believe that you have been financially damaged by a telecommunications carrier and would like to take legal action against that carrier, you may bring a lawsuit based on a violation of the Communications Act in Federal District Court file a ...
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Taking the Long View on IPOs: Getting there and beyond

The last several months have seen a dramatic turn-around in the market for initial public offerings in the U.S. by Chinese companies. Companies such Linktone Ltd., which Morrison & Foerster LLP represented in its global IPO and continues to ...
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Tax Credits and Capital for Your Business

Recently, I have had a number of inquiries regarding tax credits and other incentives that may be available to small or mid-sized businesses. Usually, these discussions also involve questions of where to gain access to additional capital to grow ...
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Technical, Business and Legal Issues in Establishing a Secure Environment for Electronic Communication and Commerce

INTRODUCTION As the desktop computer and the facsimile emerged as vital business tools in the past decade and became an integral part of corporate culture, we are now witnessing a similar importance beingplaced on new technologies which support ...
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Technology and the Workplace

Internet Use on the Job Widespread access to the Internet in the workplace has opened up worlds of information for employees and the companies for which they work. The downside is that it is also possible for online employees to create new legal ...
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Technology Commentaries: California’s New Aggressive Anti-Spam Law: A Trap for Corporate Marketing Departments?

California adopted one of the nation's most aggressive anti-spam laws in the fall of 2003. Although intended to halt the proliferation of spam, the broad sweep of the legislation will add increased operational burdens to the direct marketing efforts ...
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Technology, E-Commerce, and Banking: Business Implications of the USA Patriot Act

What price will business pay in the new fight against terrorism? Change has come to the world of technology, e-commerce and banking. On October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law the “United and Strengthening America by Providing ...
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Technology Use Policies: If You Don’t Have One, Get One

Most of you have used, or at least heard of, carbon paper. For those who haven't, think of it as the tool of yesterday's business world. In today's business world, technology is king. E-mail, voicemail, Internet access, modems, fax machines ...
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Telecommunications

For years, computer users have used their Internet service to implement a type of voice telephone service. Typically, it was a poor substitute for traditional voice telephone service. The quality of voice over internet protocol, or VoIP, calls was ...
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Ten Things Think About When I Surf the ‘Net

Originally Published in Course MaterialsBy Glasser LegalWorks Copyright © 1999 Glasser LegalWorks. All Rights Reserved. The Internet is a great resource, and overall, Web browsing on the Internet is a pretty safe activity. Yet, hazards are to be ...
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