Communications & Media

The use of cellular phones has become extremely popular worldwide, especially in the United States. Through cell phones, people are able to communicate with each other at faster, more efficient...

How to get cheap lawyers is a question asked more and more often in these trying economic times. In this case, cheap is a relative term. Lawyers go to school for at least 7 to 8 years, first for...

Video surveillance cameras have become so common in public places that most people accept them without a second thought. However, many patrons who go to bars and clubs to relax say that being...

Copyright rules are essential to those who create original work. It protects their creations from being used without their permission or in ways that they do not agree to. These rules have been...

Digital forensics is a branch of computer science that focuses on developing evidence pertaining to digital files for use in civil or criminal court proceedings. Digital forensic evidence would...

Filmmakers and writers often make movies based on events in someone's life or turn a published novel into a film. To do this, the filmmaker or production company must first acquire the film...

Defamation is the use of damaging lies against you in the spoken form of slander or in the written form of libel. This is a challenging, complex, and specialized area of law. There's a balance...

The United States Congress passed the Do Not Call Implementation Act in 2003 to protect consumers from unwanted phone calls from telemarketers. The act led to the establishment of fees to support...

Junk mail is both annoying and usually pointless, although many people don't know that they don't have to receive it. There are in fact several easy ways of reducing the amount of junk mail that...

The gall bladder stores bile secreted by the liver. Bile assists in digestion and absorption of fats, fat soluble vitamins, minerals and calcium. As bile accumulates in the gallbladder, it...

Obtaining your home phone records is a bit stickier than it once was, thanks to the Telephone Records and Privacy Act signed into law in January 2006. This bill criminalized "pretexting"--the act...

States and the federal government have laws that protect individuals' privacy and safety on the Internet. Some of these laws are designed to protect private information that a person does not wish...

Music publishing rights refer to who owns the rights to a song and who gets money from it. You own your own rights as soon as you've written a song, meaning if it generates any money, you get all...

Using file-sharing software, such as LimeWire, is like using an automobile. A person can legally own and drive a car, but speeding is illegal and punishable. Similarly, a user can use LimeWire to...

Since the rise of computer technology throughout the United States, a number of crimes using the technology place challenges on law enforcement. Known popularly as cyber crimes, these offenses...

Many people own computers capable of burning DVDs, but few are aware of the laws regarding such behavior. Many times people buy computers with DVD-burning software pre-installed, and then never...

Oh my goodness, life was so simple back when there were no computers, no cellphones and all we had was our imagination to carry us through the day. We didn't have to remember passwords for every...

There often is no fee to view public records in the United States, particularly if they are routinely made available, such as from a county clerk's office or the courts. However, the federal...

Before home video technology, many people didn't think about film copyright laws. Now, technology allows people to copy films in ways that may violate the copyright owner's rights. DVD bootlegs of...

Musicians need a way to protect their creative work, and that's exactly why copyright laws exist. Securing a registered copyright is a simple process, but it will provide you and your work with...

Although we want our children to develop good social skills and be an active member of their peer group, many of the popular social communication devices, such as MySpace, pose a real danger to...

Copyright Law is very complex, especially when it comes to the Internet. Many high profile lawsuits have brought intellectual property issues to the forefront of the digital revolution. Digital...

Due to the advance of the Internet and increased amounts of junk email (or spam), email marketing laws such as the United States' CAN-SPAM Act, and Canada's proposed ECPA Bill, have emerged....

If you've registered your phone number with the national "Do Not Call" list to stop telemarketers, and a telemarketer calls you anyway, here's how you can file a complaint. Even if your...

The need to know secrets has existed perhaps as long as humanity has communicated. Starting in ancient China, when a messenger would cover a message in wax and travel with it hidden in his...

According to a 2008 Gallup poll, cable and Internet news sources gained significant ground in the market since 2006 while Americans relied on national newspapers and public radio least of all. How...

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We all get those pesky phone calls from telemarketing companies trying to either sell something, give something away for free that actually costs you a lot later, wanting money for a charity and...

The Freedom of Information Act sets the ground rules through which the public can request, view and copy public records. In addition to the federal law, states have their own open records acts...

Twenty or thirty years ago it wasn't too difficult to find out who a phone number belonged to. We simply called the operator or asked at the telephone company. Nowadays there are privacy laws, and...

Internet libel is a pandemic blight on the 21st century community. Traditional checks and balances such as editors and publishers have been removed allowing anyone, to say anything, about anyone,...

In the internet era, we tend to expose our privacy in many ways without realizing that it could do more harm than good. We can become victims of identity theft. Here are some tips to protect your...

We all know how frustrating telemarketing calls can be. However, sometimes the telemarketers on the other line aren't legit and may attempt to scam you. If you don't know what to look for, you may...

We are living in a media mediated world. What this means, simply, is that we get most of our information and entertainment not from direct human contact or interchange, but through the filtering...

The U.S. government and all 50 states have enacted statutes about recording phone conversations. It's best to know what is legal where you live, because if you record in violation of the operative...

Perhaps the most annoying thing in the world is a telemarketing call, just when you sit down to dinner. Nearly as bothersome is a mailbox full of junk mail, not spam, junk mail—the stuff that...

If you need to send a piece of important mail to someone, such as payments or legal documents, you want to be sure that you have evidence that the mail was sent. One way to prove that your mail...

A copyright is an abstract legal entity--you can't see it, hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it--but its existence is critically important for the creator of any artistic work, and even for...

During the 2008 presidential election there was a brief moment of outrage after a Tennessee college student broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account. The hacker accomplished this by correctly...

Non-fiction writers are in the business of communicating real news, actual events and insightful information with the public. By its very nature, public communication of this kind will often find...

Initially a rare annoyance, as the Internet has grown, email hacking has become a more common problem and one that both Internet service providers (ISPs) and law enforcement continue to fight....

In 2005 the governor of California signed a law that prohibits all “unsolicited advertisements” sent or received by any person or company located in California without the “prior express...

You have seen posters at the post office offering rewards for turning hardened criminals in to the police, and you have probably seen flyers around town offering cash rewards for information...

The most common reason for magnets under your car is that someone is tracking you. Vehicle tracking devices are attached to the undercarriage of vehicles by magnets. Learn to detect magnets under...

Do you want to sue a telemarketer who's scamming you? Telemarketers can sure get irritating, especially since they have a habit of calling your phone again and again. Sometimes telemarketers call...

Vehicle tracking systems can be a great way to check on your teenagers, or your spouse. They can also increase the possibility of recovering your vehicle if it is ever stolen. There are some...

Family Radio Service (FRS) frequencies are one of the least regulated forms of two-way radio in the United States. The radios are cheap and easy to find, and can be used up to and over a two-mile...

Ham radio operators, also known as amateur radio operators, communicate with other hams all over the globe, or right in their own neighborhood. One thing all hams have in common is that they...

Telemarketers can be frustrating. If you're tired of the calls, take these simple steps to stop telemarketing calls for good.

Forget everything television and Hollywood has taught you about tracing a phone call. Not since the 1980s has the incoming call needed to last three minutes or longer in order to trace it...