Establishing and operating a virtual organization implies a number of challenges from many different perspectives, including socio-economic, organizational, legal and computational issues. This paper focuses on the legal aspects with a particular view on legal risks with respect to intellectual property rights. A risk analysis with respect to legal issues can either be based on abstract legal r...

The phenomenal growth of Internet service provider YouTube has already raised the company to legendary status. When Google acquired the company in 2006, YouTube’s founders became billionaires. But YouTube’s future success is contingent upon its ability to avoid copyright liability lawsuits that destroyed an earlier generation of online firms like Napster and Grokster. This paper describes YouTu...

This paper deals with the privacy issue in Indian perspective with respect to challenges in three different dimensions like Legal, Technical and Political domain. We have proposed framework to deal with these challenges. Advancement in technology such as Mobility (Geographic Knowledge Discovery), Data Mining, Cloud computing etc. brings unforeseen challenges and one of the major challenges is t...

This paper discusses the challenges of legal norms in specialist domains the interplay between industry/professional standards and legal norms, the information gap between legal and specialist domains and the need for interpretation at all stages of compliance design, operation and justification. We propose extensions to the Eunomos legal knowledge management tool to help address the informatio...