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Wal-Mart Ends Phone Option For Online Customers

Wal-Mart is taking a step backwards when it comes to online customer service. The retail giant said it would no longer offer its customers the choice of being able to speak to a customer service representative if they have problems with an order.

The Legal Liability of Keyword Metatags?

Nobody really debates too much about keyword metatags anymore. Google and MSN ignore them, Yahoo and Ask don't, but go stuffing them or you risk search engine penalties. But rarely does anybody bring up the legal liabilities of what's in your keyword tags.

Court Says Site Not Liable For Age Liars

Dateline NBC wasn't involved in this one, and whether or not the plaintiff in the lawsuit against SexSearch.com was aware once he saw her at her house that she was only 14 is irrelevant. He's already been convicted on those charges.

Affiliate Summit: Ads And Liability

At the Affiliate Summit in Miami, Steve Richter, President, Media Breakaway and Pete Wellborn, founder, Wellborn and Wallace, Attorney at Law spoke on advertising regulations in a session called "What You Don't Know May Hurt You."

Is Linking To Pirated Content A Liability?

The online video copyright issue is set to get more intense as legal lines come closer into focus. The YouTube and Viacom case, in the unlikely event it sees a courtroom, would be large enough to solidify some ground rules. There are also international complications, which makes one wonder if the World Wide Web will one day necessitate a Virtual World Court.  

Courts Becoming Busy With Blog Lawsuits

March was a busy month for lawsuits involving bloggers and webmasters. The court system taking them to task for defamatory statements, with one case becoming the first to go to trial and result in a liability verdict. A legal system once tentative about taking on digital cases is braving the waters with more frequency. Most of the cases we've reported on have involved the statements of anonymous commentators, liability for which webmasters and bloggers have been repeatedly exonerated (or are expected to be). But these are different.

Insurance Co: Blogs Are A Liability

An insurance carrier told a New Jersey law firm that they could not cover the firm's Web site if they had a blog. The insurance company Chubb saw the blog as a liability and fretted that the content could be viewed as legal advice.

ISP's May Face Liability For Altering Email

The recent announcement by AOL and Yahoo that they are going to use a pay to play email system called Goodmail raises an interesting question.

Goodmail Is About Money ... Not Spam

What has become clear over the last few days is that Goodmail is not designed to combat spam. It's sole purpose is to generate revenue for itself and partner ISP's.

How To Move From Unlimited Liability to Limited Liability

For the small business owner or self-employed person, both the Sole Proprietorship and the General Partnership put you in the world of Unlimited Liability.