Authors: James Evans.
Paperback, 684 pages
Publisher: NOLO
Publication Date: 1997-07
Edition: 2nd

Reviews :

    Law on the Net is for anyone who needs answers to legal questions and wants to take advantage of the thousands of legal resources available on the Internet. The CD provides the latest site information and allows point-and-click access to Internet sites using a web browser....

    If you're looking for legal resources online, this comprehensive compendium is clearly a book of choice. The first 20 pages provide a no-nonsense brief on the basics of going online. The resources throughout the rest of the book are organized topically, and the index is very effective at helping you find resources by area of legal jurisdiction. Although the words are printed on austere gray paper, this is a vibrant and essential Yellow Pages of the best kind. Recommended....

Authors: Ellen Rony. Peter R. Rony.
Paperback, 645 pages
Publisher: Publishers Group West
Publication Date: 1998-06-01

Authors: J. Dianne Brinson. Mark F. Radcliffe.
Diskette, 600 pages
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
Publication Date: 2000-08
Edition: Pap/Dsk

Reviews :

    Use of the Internet as a business, research, and personal communications tool is growing at an astounding rate. This practical reference uses simple language and clear explanations to help businesses and individuals with all aspects of Internet usage-setting up business Web sites and personal home pages, putting existing material online, creating material specifically for the Internet, using material found on the Internet, e-commerce, and educational aspects of the Internet. After examining and explaining particular aspects of Internet law, real-world examples are used to illustrate how these rules affect individuals and businesses. Includes a disk containing 15 sample contracts and additional resource information...

Authors: Bernardo A. Huberman.
Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    Despite its haphazard growth, the Web hides powerful underlying regularities—from the organization of its links to the patterns found in its use by millions of users. Many of these regularities have been predicted on the basis of theoretical models based on a field of physics—statistical mechanics—that few would have thought applicable to the social domain.

In this book, Bernardo Huberman explains in accessible language the laws of the Web. One of the foremost researchers in the field, Huberman has established, for example, that the surfing patterns of individuals are describable by a precise law. Such findings can lead to more efficient Web design and use. They also shed light on social mechanisms whose significance goes beyond the Web. In this sense, the Web is a gigantic informational ecosystem that can be used to quantify and test explanations of human behavior and social interaction....

Authors:
Paperback, 159 pages
Publisher: Hoover Inst Pr
Publication Date: 2000-05-04


Reviews :

   

As we enter the twenty-first century, every opinion, interest, and lifestyle known to man seems to have found a home somewhere on the Internet. The new technology and the new form of commerce it has generated have opened up much debate about how to deal with traditional business issues: in particular, privacy, taxation, and contracts. In October 1999 a group of prominent executives, Hoover fellows, and academics met to discuss Internet public policy, focusing initially on privacy and taxation but then expanding the debate to include issues of contract and jurisdiction as well. Public Policy and the Internet presents the initial findings that framed those discussions and outlines proposals that should guide policymaking in the future. In "Privacy and Electronic Commerce," Mary J. Cronin surveys opinion and position papers on how to deal with online privacy, the meaning of privacy in electronic commerce, and the arguments between advocates of self-regulation and legislation. Charles E. McLure Jr. looks at fundamental questions of tax policy and the Internet in his contribution, "The Taxation of Electronic Commerce: Background and Proposal," and outlines his proposal for a single, uniform nationwide base for sales and use taxes. Margaret Jane Radin's "Retooling Contract for the Digital Era" evaluates the crisis for contract brought on by the advent of electronic commerce. Taken together, the viewpoints presented in Public Policy and the Internet reinforce the judgment that the future of e-commerce will have as much to do with how policy issues are resolved as with how any technological challenge is overcome.

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Authors: Bill Zoellick.
Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2001-09-14


Reviews :

    New government regulation, legislation, and technology trends are dramatically changing the Web, making yesterday's assumptions obsolete -- often, disastrously so. In this thought-provoking book, leading Web consultant Bill Zoellick offers an up-to-minute executive briefing on the enormous paradigm shift that's under way -- giving businesspeople the critical information they need to understand its impact, and influence the debate. Yesterday's popular notion -- that the Web's freedom-loving nature will sweep away existing rules, business arrangements, and governments -- has proven to be a hopelessly poor foundation for planning, strategy, and investment. Will yesterday's wide-eyed anarchy be replaced by tomorrow's cynicism and control? Can a middle ground be found that will protect the Web's vitality and your business interests? This book focuses on four key areas of public policy and Web technology: patent, copyright, privacy policy, and electronic signatures. For each topic, Zoellick presents a brief history of the issues, litigation, and legislation, and applies the state-of-the-law to a current Web business. The result: a "big picture" view that helps businesspeople recognize the issues, understand their short-term and long-term interests -- and impact the outcome....

Authors: Craig B. Simonsen. Christian R. Andersen.
Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2005-10-20
Edition: 2

Reviews :

   

KEY BENEFIT: This book is an essential tool for paralegal and other legal professionals to bring computer-aided legal research alive. KEY TOPICS: It provides an introduction to computers in the law, reviews and explains sources and evaluation of documents and materials found on the Internet, and features many examples of doing CALR. MARKET: For paralegal and other legal professionals.

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Authors: Matthew Newman.
Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Childrens Press
Publication Date: 2007-09

Authors: Mike Godwin.
Paperback, 426 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2003-07-13
Edition: Rev Upd

Reviews :

    Lawyer and writer Mike Godwin has been at the forefront of the struggle to preserve freedom of speech on the Internet. In Cyber Rights he recounts the major cases and issues in which he was involved and offers his views on free speech and other constitutional rights in the digital age. Godwin shows how the law and the Constitution apply, or should apply, in cyberspace and defends the Net against those who would damage it for their own purposes.

Godwin details events and phenomena that have shaped our understanding of rights in cyberspace—including early antihacker fears that colored law enforcement activities in the early 1990s, the struggle between the Church of Scientology and its critics on the Net, disputes about protecting copyrighted works on the Net, and what he calls "the great cyberporn panic." That panic, he shows, laid bare the plans of those hoping to use our children in an effort to impose a new censorship regime on what otherwise could be the most liberating communications medium the world has seen. Most important, Godwin shows how anyone—not just lawyers, journalists, policy makers, and the rich and well connected—can use the Net to hold media and political institutions accountable and to ensure that the truth is known....

    Cyber Rights is an exceptionally rational and compelling account of the most explosive and controversial issues surrounding freedom in cyberspace. Author Mike Godwin is the well-known outspoken activist for online civil liberties and counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He's been directly involved in many of the news-making cases and offers cogent analysis of very thorny situations, such as:

• Time magazine's infamous "Cyberporn" issue, which featured a flawed study and which many believe was at least a partial cause for passage of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (later overturned);
• the case of Jake Baker, a college kid who distributed his stories about rape and torture in newsgroups, which resulted in his computer being confiscated by police;
• the Church of Scientology's line in the sand regarding intellectual property and the backlash against Scientology in online debates;
• the libel conflicts experienced by Net journalists Matt Drudge and Brock Meeks; and
• Philip Zimmerman's (the programmer who developed the encryption tool Pretty Good Privacy [PGP]) fight with the Clinton administration to allow the use of encryption software.

Godwin is a natural teacher, carefully describing each event and explaining the issues surrounding it. Unlike many writers, he shows that he thoroughly understands the arguments for restricting speech. He then methodically takes the arguments apart, covering what is normally boring legal theory and explaining it in a lively manner so that readers are drawn into the story.

This book differs from other books on the topic in two ways: it's entertaining and it's a personal account. It's obvious that Godwin enjoys telling his stories, and he passes his enthusiasm on to readers. Readers also get a sense of Godwin's personal involvement as he describes his role in exposing the erroneous study that was the basis of Time magazine's "cyberporn" scare. In his chapter on the court decision that overturned the Communications Decency Act of 1996, it's clear that Godwin's work for the EFF is not just his job, but his passion. --Elizabeth Lewis...

Authors:
Paperback, 236 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2000-08-21
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    The rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web is transforming the way information is accessed and used. New models for distributing, sharing, linking, and marketing information are appearing. This volume examines emerging economic and business models for global publishing and information access, as well as the attendant transformation of international information markets, institutions, and businesses. It provides those in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors with a practical framework for dealing with the new information markets. Topics addressed include the effects of various technological factors and market environments on pricing; the relationship among classic production costs, transaction costs, and the economic value of intellectual property; the effects of different pricing practices for telecommunications and Internet services on the pricing of information; the bundling and unbundling of information services; changing cost structures and the allocation of rights among authors, publishers, and other intermediaries; the effects of markets for complementary products and services, including advertising, on the pricing and use of information; and policy implications of different pricing models.

A Publication of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project in Collaboration with the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley....