The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just sued a business for a single e-mail mistake. The company is paying $50,000 to settle the case.

If you use an autoresponder for your business e-mails, this may affect you.

To learn more about what happened, check out my latest column about it at the Copywriters Blog.

About the Author

With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 14 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young shows entrepreneurs how to protect and grow their businesses online. He's the author of "Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed," "How to Create Your Own Internet Business Without a Lawyer for Under $175," and the creator of Website Legal Forms Generator^TM. Not just a lawyer who focuses exclusively on Internet and marketing law, Mike’s been working with computers for more than 27 years (his first computer was an Atari 400 with 8 KiB RAM) and started representing Internet businesses back in 1996.