- Impressum
An Impressum is type of page common to European print media and carried forward as a common
webpage title for Europeanwebsite s. The impressum includes information that German websites must disclose about their publishers under theTeledienstegesetz and/or theMediendienste-Staatsvertrag . In the printing business, although not on websites, "Impressum" is poorly translated as masthead orimprint . [ [http://www.words-worth.de/robin/2002/10/impressum.php Impressum] , words-worth.de, 2002-10-12]A better translation from the German "Impressum" may be "Impressum - Legal Disclosure," or "Impressum - Legal Notice."Fact|date=September 2008 This retains the original German as required by law while telling English speakers much more than "masthead" or "imprint."
The German law that requires the "Impressum" page in webpages has created
privacy concerns for private individuals who maintain blogs or personal homepages [http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10/3178.htm] [http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=145280] [http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.savannah.user/2007-03/msg00007.html] . The law has also caused lawyers to scrutinise websites for this page. [http://www.recht.us/amlaw/2006/11/04#1104impressum] [http://transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/594-U.S.-comment-on-ImpressumGerman-lawyers-cease-and-desist-hunt.html]References
[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemediengesetz Telemediengesetz] as of March 1, 2007, substitutes the above ones indicated.
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