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IT Legal FAQs

Scott J. Ward | posted 10/24/2007
This article provided by the Engstrom Institute

Over the last ten years, Internet technologies have literally blown our communication capacity into another dimension. Though these technologies offer powerful tools and communication platforms, they also bring with them a host of legal and ethical confusions. The following FAQ deals with four major legal questions that have arisen out of our electronic age.

Is it okay to post songs, pictures, videos, sermons, poems or articles on our website, on a protected area of our website, or on a big screen in our sanctuary?

The answer to this question is actually not a one-size-fits-all answer.  It requires asking several different questions:

First, you must ask: What rights do we have in this content? The legal guidelines toward an answer are as follows:

• If the material is created by you or your employee, working within the scope of their employment, in general, you the employer own the material. So, if you have an employee who works in graphic design and they create an image and you use that image, you should own the image as the employer, assuming they created it from scratch.  You can use it however you would like, though it is important that you protect your rights in the material (see next question).
  

See also:

 copyright questions, human resources, internet abuse, monitoring web use, Policy manual, protecting a domain name