Rule of law

Rule of law -- a concise summary of the main precedent established. Support with quotes form the book.  I know that stealing intellectual property is against the law and one may sue another for stealing that property. It is illegal to delete copyright information, such as the name of the author or the title of the article. It is also illegal to distribute false copyright information. Thus, anyone who emailed Tom Tomorrow's cartoon without his name on it, or who claimed it was his own work, would be violating the law. (Jeffery F. Beatty; Susan S. Smauelson )

It is illegal to distribute tools and technologies used to circumvent encryption devices. If you help others to copy that software program, you have violated the statute. (Jeffery F. Beatty; Susan S. Smauelson )

Online service providers (OSPs) are not liable for posting copyrighted material so long as they are unaware that the material is illegal and they remove it promptly after receiving notice that it violates copyright law. (Jeffery F. Beatty; Susan S. Smauelson )

A trademark is any combination of words and symbols that a business uses to identify its products or services and distinguish them from others.

 The protection expires 50 years after the death of the author. (Jeffery F. Beatty; Susan S. Smauelson )

The Berne Convention requires member countries to provide automatic copyright protection to any works created in another member country. (Jeffery F. Beatty; Susan S. Smauelson )