Internet, Social Media and IT Law

The rapid pace of technological advancement in the 21st century, referred to as the "digital age" or the "information age", has increased the variety of legal risks and issues in the internet and information technology sector. With each passing day more users integrate into digital platforms and social media systems, and the number of digital infrastructures storing personal or corporate data rises quickly, widening the field for those seeking to obtain data from the virtual environment for one purpose or another. At the same time, the internet, social media and other virtual platforms have become important tools for individuals and legal entities to promote their products and services — and using those tools to harm people or institutions with misleading information has become widespread.

Onur Law Office closely monitors technological developments and manages all necessary civil and criminal processes against infringements of rights suffered by individuals or legal entities through the internet and social media.

Work on technological infrastructure and software development is a long, intensive, focused and innovative process, and critical know-how accumulates along the way. In an age in which knowledge is power, we support our clients in putting in place the strategies needed to protect that knowledge. Determining the scope and the limits of the moral rights held by software developers is a further area of expertise for Onur Law Office, and work is under way to bring balancing principles that have been overlooked in the decisions of our courts — such as the "de minimis" doctrine in information technology law — into our legal system.

Within the framework of the technological developments Onur Law Office follows closely, we provide legal analysis of transactions conducted by clients over the internet, the application and validity of digital signatures, intellectual property infringements committed over the internet, the protection of intellectual property rights online, protection procedures for internet domain names, the management of WIPO and ICANN arbitration procedures, source code piracy and the legal protection of computer programs (software contracts), along with legal consultancy on information technology topics such as the software, hardware and databases behind clients' internet activities.