How many laws does your Web site break

A insightful article on this subject 

We had an eye-opening conversation with Chip Cooper, an attorney with Buker Jones & Haley, an Atlanta law firm with a focus on corporate law for entrepreneurs.

When Cooper talks, as the saying goes, we listen: He's been an adjunct professor of computer law Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, N.C., for more than 16 years, he's the founder of Digital Contracts, an online contract drafting service, and he's published two books on the subject of software law.

Cooper's not the kind of guy who simply responds to problems as you bring them up; he's actively scouting the legal landscape for new laws, court rulings, and pending cases that could have an effect on his software industry clients.

So, when he suggested that virtually every e-commerce Web site faces a potential liability, we—naturally—took it personally. And, Cooper explained, this isn't a case of one pothole in the road; rather, there are five potential land mines. .....