Full Description
Are you a user of Twitter or Facebook? Do you download your music or shop online? How often do you log on to the Internet using your mobile phone? Aspects of information technology permeate every aspect of our lives. From websites such as Facebook and Twitter, to online music and shopping stores, to CCTV cameras, it is rare that a person is not touched by some form of IT every day. But how often do we stop and think about the legal dimensions of these every day brushes with IT? Since the pioneering first publication of Internet Technology Law in 1993, both the book and the subject have become widely recognised and respected both academically and professionally. Focussing primarily on developments within the UK and EU, along with some comparative international aspects, this book provides a broad-ranging introduction and analysis of the frequently difficult relationship between the law and IT. Information Technology Law is essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduates on law courses covering the law relating to IT, including IT law, criminal law, intellectual property, and contract law.It will also be highly valuable to business and management students, practitioners, and professionals working in the area. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre hosts a catalogue of web links to key readings, updates to the law since publication, as well as linking to the author's own IT law blog.
Contents
PART 1 - PRIVACY, ANONYMITY, AND DATA PROTECTION ; 1. Privacy, technology, and surveillance ; 2. The emergence of data protection ; 3. The scope of data protection ; 4. Supervisory agencies ; 5. The data protection principles ; 6. Individual rights and remedies ; 7. Sectoral aspects of data protection ; 8. Transborder data flows ; PART 2 - COMPUTER-RELATED CRIME ; 9. National and international responses to computer-related crime ; 10. Substantive criminal law provisions ; 11. Computer fraud and forgery ; 12. Virtual criminality ; 13. Detecting and prosecuting computer crime ; PART 3 - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES ; 14. Key elements of the patent system ; 15. Patents and software ; 16. Copyright protection ; 17. Copyright in the information society ; 18. Protection of databases ; 19. Design rights ; 20. Trademark and domain name issues ; PART 4 - E-COMMERCE ; 21. International and European initiatives in e-commerce ; 22. Cryptography, electronic signatures, and the Electronic Communications Act 2000 ; 23. Electronic money and online gambling ; 24. Contractual liability for defective software ; PART 5 - INTERNET-SPECIFIC ISSUES ; 25. Social networking, defamation, and the internet ; 26. Internet regulation and domain names
