"The internet provides the most effective means of communication known to man and so confronts organizations with tremendous opportunities and also considerable challenges. Providing a concise and well-referenced resource to many of key issues involved on the internet, Canada's Internet Law in a Nutshell explores the inherent tensions between freedom of expression and other values such as the protection of reputation, and commercial speech. The text also examines the tensions between the ease of copying of digital files and the concerns of copyright owners. The text covers many key legal issues confronting conduct occurring on the internet including a deeper focus on issues pertaining to matters such as copyright, privacy, defamation and internet marketing, trademark and domain names, electronic commerce, the Anti-Spam legislation, and introduces key issues concerning other topics such as social media and cloud computing."--Pub. desc.

A comprehensive legal resource for the dot.com economy, the 12 chapters of this treatise cover all major areas of Internet law and practice: electronic contracts; privacy; jurisdiction; trademark; copyright; defamation; computer crime; censorship; legal research and practice; tax; patents; and securities. This treatise considers developments in Internet law, including: The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; Legislation and cases on unsolicited commercial e-mail; Shrinkwrap and clickwrap license enforcement decisions; FTC actions against websites for privacy policy violations; Decisions on and proposed regulation of encryption export controls; The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act; Analysis of copyright cases, including Tasini versus New York Times, Ryan versus Carl Corp. and the MP3 music case.

This book provides a clear and authoritative explanation of the law governing the internet, both in the UK and globally. It identifies legal questions likely to arise, explains how to deal with them, and addresses key areas of contention.

The common fallacy regarding cyberspace is that the Internet is a new jurisdiction, in which none of the existing rules and regulations apply. However, all the actors involved in an Internet transaction live in one or more existing jurisdictions, so rather than being unregulated, the Internet is arguably highly regulated. Worse, much of this law and regulation is contradictory and difficult, or impossible, to comply with. This book takes a global view of the fundamental legal issues raised by the advent of the Internet as an international communications mechanism. Legal and other materials are integrated to support the discussion of how technological, economic and political factors are shaping the law governing the Internet. Global trends in legal issues are addressed and the effectiveness of potential mechanisms for legal change that are applicable to Internet law are also examined. Of interest to students and practitioners in computer and electronic commerce law.

This authoritative work describes the nature and growth of the law of the Internet and explains the legal obligations, opportunities, rights, and risks inherent in this complex medium.

CyberLaw provides a comprehensive guide to legal issues which have arisen as a result of the growth of the Internet and World Wide Web. As well as discussing each topic in detail, the book includes extensive coverage of the relevant cases and their implications for the future. The book covers a wide range of legal issues, including copyright and trademark issues, defamation, privacy, liability, electronic contracts, taxes, and ethics. A comprehensive history of the significant legal events is also included.