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Legal Issues of Home Based Online Businesses
Home based internet businesses have to comply with the same legal regulations as any legal internet business from any other location.
The first issue and a real concern for most home based internet businesses is the age-based restriction. The Federal Trade Commission of the United States follows the COPPA regulations. COPPA stands for Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. This law requires that children who are under 13 years of age cannot disclose their personal information without their parent’s consent. In addition to this, individuals under the age of 18 cannot be allowed to enter any contract, nor allowed to view adult content on the internet. Home based online business owners must also make real their ownership of all content and property on their internet business website by having a copyright notice on the website’s footer. To do this, a real copy of the home based online business website must be filed with the U.S. copyright office. The copyright notice must contain the owner’s name, the date and the statement “All rights reserved”.
Real time occurrences on the internet such as chats and bulletin boards must be controlled by the home based online business owner. Forum discussions, postings, chats, and message boards should have rules where the consent of each online user is solicited and retained with regard to refraining from posting defamatory materials, pornography or anything that may infringe other people’s rights.
Avoiding Online Business Scams
Nowadays, most internet surfers and users are bombarded with different offers to join online business opportunities. Thus, choosing the right business opportunity can be a very confusing task. What makes it harder to choose is the fact that most online business offers are just scams, and everyday, millions of internet users who just want to earn some extra money, fall victim to fraudulent online companies and scammers.
Unfortunately, some individuals who have been fooled by online scams before still continue to seek online business opportunities in the hope that someday they will stumble upon a great online business offer that is authentic and legal. Hence, many of them are fooled at least three times. What is more unfortunate is the fact that aside from the time and effort they spend in working on the so-called business opportunity, many are even forced to pay money for some “online business registration or membership fee”. Internet users must be aware of some tell-tales that show signs that an offer is a scam.
One of the best indicators that an offer is probably a scam is on the name of the offer itself. Words like “legal”, “legitimate”, and “scam-free” in the title of the offer are often used on online scams. Business opportunities that make offers that are two good to be true are most probably scams as well.
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