Safe Harbor - Law and Regulations

Law and Regulations

• Safe harbor (law), a provision of a statute or a regulation that reduces or eliminates a party's liability under the law, on the condition that the party performed its actions in good faith or in compliance with defined standards
• International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, a streamlined process for US companies to comply with the EU Directive on the protection of personal data
• Research exemption, an exemption to the rights conferred by patents
• No-action letter, a letter written by the staff members of a government agency not recommending legal action
• Information privacy, the relationship between collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, and the legal and political issues surrounding them
• Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, a United States federal law that creates a conditional safe harbor for online service providers
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization