Corporate Banking Advisor

Everyone assumes that since the Internet and the World Wide Web are basically all free and that you can surf in and out of places across the globe, that pretty much everything is free. You start a website and you pay your hosting and domain fees and you can fairly well do what you want to do and start making tons of money. The reality here is that there are a lot of things to look over legally before you put things on your website to avoid things like copyright infringement and such for example. It is common for the people that come across your site assume that what you have up there is ok for them to view and / or use and that may or may not be the case depending on plagiarism etc.

If you are doing a site dedicated to Green Card renewal or US Immigration forms or getting a US Green Card then you will likely have links to various places where these forms can be found and downloaded. You might even have some of the same information and in most cases that may be perfectly legal. However if you copy the writing verbatim then there is a chance that you could get in trouble should anyone find that out and go after you for it.

If you are doing that same site for US Immigration forms and people surf in for information on US Green Cards or Green Card Renewals there is a chance that a lot of what you have on your site could be what is known as public domain which means that anyone can use it. But you should absolutely never assume that just because you found it on another website that it is okay for you to use it and by that same token, also don’t assume that it is not all right to use the information. You need to do some research on it to make sure that it is or is not ok to use.

Often, even if something is covered protected under the copyright laws, you can sometimes get permission from the owner of the material and in some cases you can even get by simply stating the reference to the location where the information is found, like a reference in a book or magazine article might be done.

If you have any doubts what so ever, shy away from the material and find another source or even other information. You don’t want to get mired into a legal battle.

The US Immigration forms are readily available on the Internet and you can locate many places to get the information on Green Card Renewals and US Green Card. Many of them are full of public information that is there for the use and many of them are specifically written for the site that is providing the information. Once you ascertain the origination of the material it is fairly easy to trace it back to a simple yes or no answer about the usability, legally speaking, of the content.