Kids may be polled if parents are told; an FTC staff letter tells marketers that collect data from children online to notify parents and even obtain prior consent

Article Abstract:

An 1997 FTC staff letter with guidelines on parental notification for marketers conducting online polls of children marks the agency's first significant attempt at establishing information-gathering standards for the Internet. Prior parental consent is necessary only when collecting and selling personally identifiable information. Collecting and disseminating aggregate data and collecting it for internal use only do not require such consent. If a manufacturer expects that some of a World Wide Web site's visitors will be children, screening to identify them and readiness to obtain proper parental consent should be the rule.

United States. Federal Trade Commission, Parent and child (Law), Notice (Law)

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Courts now confront online photograph copying

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Digital scanning of of photographs without permission of the copyright's holder will in most cases count as infringement under current case law. Putting an image or block of text in a computer makes a copy, and even intermediate copies with no inherent commercial value may infringe. Parody may be an appropriate purpose for such copying, under the ruling in Campbell v Acuff-Rose Music, but non-parodic copying that uses even a fraction of the original image is likely to infringe.

Copyright, Scanning devices, Optical scanners, Photography, Copyright infringement

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Online licensing can yield benefits for software sellers; vendors can avoid shrink-wrap notice problems by requiring buyers to view license terms

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Some software vendors sell their products online. This allows a vendor to require users to take a series of steps before gaining access to the software, thus reducing the problems of 'shrink-wrap' licenses which the courts have declined to enforce because the user did not have sufficient notice before completing the transaction. Important steps for providing proper notice online are detailed.

Interpretation and construction, Software, Marketing, Shrink-wrap license agreements, Software licensing

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