What is an Internet lawyer?
An internet lawyer is a lawyer who focuses their legal practice on internet law related matters. Your typical internet attorney will in addition to their internet focus will have a pretty good handle on business and regulatory law, especially as they relate to the internet aspects of those two fields.
How can an ecommerce attorney help you protect your business?
A website and business review by an internet attorney will allow business owners to become confident that their websites and the content on them are legally safe and secure, therefore allowing them to focus their energies on the task of building and running their businesses, rather than worrying about the legal ramifications of each and every piece of content on their website.
One of the key things an internet attorney can help business owners address is their lace of certain policies. For instance, lack of a privacy policy, which can lead to clients not giving you their business out of fear as to who their personal data is handled. By having an internet lawyer help you craft any policies or other documents you might be missing you will also be building a shield around you and your business, whereas lack of such policies can also lead to lawsuits.
For instance, if you ever have a data breach the personal data of your clients or business partners is stolen and misused, you could be liable for their damages if you do not have protections for your business in your posted policies or terms.
Another area where business owners need to be secure is intellectual property, both making sure that their own is secure and that they have a right to use anyone else’s that they feature on their website.
Failure to secure your own intellectual property or to secure the right to use the intellectual property of others can be quite costly. If you have not secured your own intellectual rights then someone could come to your businesses’ website and steal your content and use it however they wish without paying you a dime.
Alternatively if you use someone else’s content without securing the legal right to do so, even something as simple as a photo from a search engine, your business could be sued and subjected to heavy financial damages, something that is easily avoided by getting an internet attorney to make sure upfront that you have a clear legal right to the content on your website or to help you secure a right to any content you have not yet received a right to use.
How do you go about getting an Internet attorney?
An important consideration in finding and selecting your internet lawyer is their record of focusing on internet law issues. Internet attorney Mike Young has been working in the field of internet law and providing business with guidance on internet law matters since the mid-nineties.
For help with your internet law and business protection needs contact Attorney Young and set up a telephone appointment today.
