Digital Publishing Law

This course will help you reduce the legal risks associated with digital publishing. You will learn how to:

  • ensure that your online products and services comply with the law
  • use online marketing techniques within the law
  • reduce the risks of complaints about your content
  • protect your domain names
  • manage the risks of dealing with customers in many jurisdictions.

Programme

  • Mandatory disclosures and procedures
    • Companies Act
    • E-commerce regulations
    • Distance selling regulations
  • Data protection and cookies
    • Compliance with data protection legislation
    • Privacy policies
    • Law of cookies
  • Online marketing law
    • Website advertisements
    • Email marketing
    • Affiliate marketing
  • Content liability
    • Libel, copyright, database right, privacy and other kinds of content liability
    • Hyperlinks
    • User generated content
    • Defences under the E-commerce Regulations and the Defamation Act
  • Domain names
    • Trade marks and domain names
    • Domain name arbitration proceedings
    • Domain names in court
  • International and jurisdictional issues
    • Dealing with the laws of many jurisdictions.

Note: The focus of this course is very much upon English law. Although many of the relevant areas of English law - e-commerce law, consumer law, copyright law, and so on - are heavily conditioned by EU law, that does not mean that the course is designed for those interested in the law of other EU jurisdictions.

Who will benefit from this course?

Anyone who is involved in the creation and publication of online products, services and content.

Your Tutor

Al Taylor runs SEQ Legal LLP, a legal consultancy specialising in the law relating to publishing and the internet. Al trained as a solicitor and previously worked for City firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP and Manches LLP in Oxford. During his career, he has advised both small and large publishers on most areas of publishing and digital publishing law.

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Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.

  • Dates: 11 May 2012, 08 October 2012
  • Duration: A one-day course
  • Price: £385+VAT
  • A number of discounts are available

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