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- Intellectual Property Rights:
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Intellectual property rights are a set of exclusive rights that are recognized under law for using a number of distinct types of creations of the mind (intangible assets). Common types of intellectual property rights include copyright and industrial property (such as trademarks, patents, industrial design rights)
- Defamation:
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Defamation refers to the publication or posting on a social networking site of a false statement (written or oral, for instance, contained in a video) about someone else that causes harm to his/her reputation
- Liability:
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Liability refers to the condition of being legally liable for a fact that produces harm to a third party and that has been produced as a consequence of a positive or negative conduct (omission) of the person deemed to be liable. Liability commonly implies the obligation to compensate the third party's damage...
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Parrilli, D.M., Gangadharan, G.R. (2014). Legal Implications of Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_200
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