Copying Terms and Condition - is it illegal ?

Question

My friend took terms and condition from another well known commercial website and used it at his own webpage with extremely minimal changes ( mostly in name etc. )

1) Can he be sued for that?

2) If the company that he copied from is in US, and he is based

in Asia, can the original company sue the local company ?

3) What if both companies are in the same country, any problems if minimal changes are applied to the T&C ?

3) What else should i know, where can I find more info ?

Tks...need help.

Answer 1

As I understand WIPO and that junk, which is not much, ask an attorney.

1) Yes

2) Yes

3) that one will take a few days of reading,,but here are some starting areas,

http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/index.html

http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/

http://www.copyright.gov/

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/copynet....

And about a thousand more data bases that cannot be copied or pasted withouit giving credit,listing sources and copying entire sites at a time.