The most talk-about news in the Internet Marketing space in Aug 06 must be on the product "Web Law Generator" that had violated the copyright of Bob Silber. Bob is now out to protect his rights by threatening to sue those who continues to use the templates generated from this tool.

For those unfamiliar, "Web Law Generator" is a $47 software tool that was sold on the Internet with Master Resell Rights. It was meant to help create Legal templates that you can place on your website (for your TOS or disclaimer etc)

Bob Silber (owner of the Legal templates) claims that he had not given out his rights for those Legal templates to be sold. Hence, he is seriously looking into this. He contacted and threatened to sue some of the big marketers such as Mike Filsaime. To be fair to those marketers, they were not aware of this infringement in the first place when they use the tool.

In the end, this was settled by paying $3,000 to buy over the rights for those templates by each marketers who wants to continue to use the templates.

Hence, if you are using "Web Law Generator" to generate any templates for your site, take my advice and take them down immediately!

If you are looking for alternatives, try the following:

Option 1: Get Your Lawyers To Help You Craft The TOS, disclaimers etc

This is an expensive option but you should consider this if you are running a serious and big business. This should be part of your business expenses. Don't save on pennies and paid pounds in the end.

Option 2: Check Out the Legal Resources Sites

I got the following tips from Charles Smith. You may find useful forms in these two free legal resource sites:

• Lectric Law Library Forms ( http://www.lectlaw.com/form.html )This site claims to be the largest collection of free legal forms on the Web. Forms are divided into two broad areas: law practice and business and general. There is also a section on Premium Forms that links to the commercial vendor U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. where forms can be purchased. Law practice forms are subdivided into general practice and litigation. Most of these forms are free, however, use diligence in checking their accuracy, currency, and validity
  
  
• Another source for free legal forms is from the Internet Legal Resource Guide( http://www.ilrg.com/forms/ ).These forms cover a variety of topics, including basic agreements, employment, leases, transfers, and other areas of legal practice.

Start protecting yourself now.

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