Authors: Keith B. Darrell.
Perfect Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Amber Book Company
Publication Date: 2006-12-01


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    * Suppose you buy something online; was that online contract you clicked on really enforceable, even if you just scrolled down and did not read it? * Is receiving pornography in office e-mail from your co-workers sexual harassment? * Can stalkers find your personal information online? * What can you legally place on your website? And what's not allowed? * Do you own your domain name? * Can a public library censor your use of its Internet-linked computers? * Who else can read your e-mail? * Is it legal to gamble online? * How "private" is your private information after you disclose it to a website? * Is a student exercising his First Amendment rights when he creates a hate website on a public school's Internet server? * Do other countries address these issues differently from the U.S.? * Which country's laws apply on the Internet? These are just some of the issues addressed in this book. Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law can be read by the average person to develop an awareness of issues in Internet Law and is also designed for use as a textbook. But Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law is about change. Change brought on by advances in technology and the effects on society and, in turn, how the law copes with those changes. Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology is not meant to be a 'law book' - at least not in the sense that you can turn to a page and immediately read a definitive answer as to what the state of the law is on any given topic. In the Internet Age, in a world where changes occur at light speed on a daily basis, the only state of the law is the state of flux. This book offers a view of the law through the prism of society and culture. Advances in technology have always changed societies, and there has never been as far-reaching and profound an advance as the Internet. By reaching across all borders into all societies and cultures, the Internet has created a single virtual world - a melting pot where each society's cultures, mores, and values are interchanged. Differing political, religious, and cultural ideas, practices and beliefs assail web visitors at each mouse click. It would be impossible for the Internet not to change the very fabric of every society on earth. Some nations want to block access to, or at least filter, content on the Internet. Marketers realize the Internet provides unsurpassed access to consumers, but such access may entail threats to privacy, manipulation of children, risk of fraud, and undesired annoyances such as spam. The Internet has become the world's largest, most pervasive soapbox where anyone and everyone can have their 15 minutes of fame. But the downside of such unlimited global access is that the megaphone of the Internet can be used to disseminate misinformation, libel, and hate speech. Laws are required to protect consumers, investors, children, and those who are defamed, or subjected to hate speech. But with hundreds of nations, each with its own jurisprudence, cultural and societal mores, philosophies, and legal systems, which laws will prevail and - even if every nation on earth shared the same jurisprudence - how could any single nation apply its laws to a technology that knows no boundaries? The Internet is like a giant snake slithering across every country - each nation focuses on the portion of the snake it sees and tries to apply its jurisprudence to that portion. This book looks at the attempts of nations to overlay their laws upon the Internet....

Authors: J. Dianne Brinson. Mark F. Radcliffe.
Paperback, 140 pages
Publisher: Ladera Press
Publication Date: 1997-01-15
Edition: 1ST

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    From the choice and protection of a domain name to the development of a Web site, this book provides all the necessary forms and information for setting up and running a business online. Each form can be photocopied and a checklist of issues and negotiating tips is included....

    Setting up a business on the Net often seems simpler than setting up more traditional businesses. But from a legal point of view, you still face the same risks--and sometimes even more risks. Is there a chance that the picture you posted on your Web site will get you sued for copyright infringement? Can you protect yourself from being responsible for costly mistakes by your Web site developer? If you have chat rooms or a bulletin board, are you going to be held responsible for illegal activities by those who post? While there's no substitute for having a good lawyer, many of the situations faced by a huge number of Net-based businesses can be covered by a handful of standard forms. Authors Brinson and Radcliff have collected a dozen of the most necessary forms in this book. Beyond offering the forms themselves, the authors briefly discuss the issues behind the documents. Preceding each form is an overview of the situations that it covers, a checklist of issues that it involves and, when applicable, tips for negotiating the agreements with other parties. The book includes the following forms: an agreement for the development and transfer of copyrighted materials; a content license for text, photo, or video material; terms and conditions for Web site use; a Web site development agreement; an Internet advertising contract; a document of Internet use policy; a clickwrap agreement for selling or licensing software; a linking agreement, a permission-to-link form, and an agreement for the transfer of a domain name....

Authors: Rod Dixon.
Hardcover, 308 pages
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Publication Date: 2003-12


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    This comprehensive resource provides you with a broad introduction to the area of software licensing in the information age. The book helps you to understand the basic philosophy and key issues of open source software development and offers expert guidance on how to draft an open source license. Drawing on the author's legal and technical background, this useful reference explains the legal framework that has been developed to support the increasingly popular internet-based open source and free software community. "Open Source Software Law" explores the formal and legal aspects of two revolutionary views of software development and distribution: that software should be offered to users with open access to the source code and that end-users should be freely able to modify, copy or redistribute the software they have legally acquired. Moreover, the book examines an innovative legal response to the conflict between copyright law and digital technology, and includes an analysis of the legal regime that an increasing number of software developers have come to prefer when developing and distributing software online. The convenient, fully searchable CD-ROM provides instant access to helpful license templates and important sections of laws....

Authors: T. R. Halvorson.
Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Publication Date: 1999-12-01
Edition: 1

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Authors: David G. Schwartz.
Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Publication Date: 2005-08-19


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    The story of the Wire Act and how Robert Kennedy's crusade against the Mob is creating a new generation of Internet gaming outlaws. Gambling has been part of American life since long before the existence of the nation, but Americans have always been ambivalent about it. What David Schwartz calls the "pell-mell history of legal gaming in the United States" is a testament to our paradoxical desire both to gamble and to control gambling. It is in this context that Schwartz examines the history of the Wire Act, passed in 1961 as part of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's crusade against organized crime and given new life in recent efforts to control Internet gambling. "Cutting the Wire" presents the story of how this law first developed, how it helped fight a war against organized crime, and how it is being used today. The Wire Act achieved new significance with the development of the Internet in the early 1990s and the growing popularity of online wagering through offshore facilities. The United States government has invoked the Wire Act in a vain effort to control gambling within its borders, at a time when online sports betting is soaring in popularity. By placing the Wire Act into the larger context of Americans' continuing ambivalence about gambling, Schwartz has produced a provocative, deeply informed analysis of a national habit and the vexing predicaments that derive from it. In America today, 48 of 50 states currently permit some kind of legal gambling. Schwartz's historical unraveling of the Wire Act exposes the illogic of an outdated law intended to stifle organized crime being used to set national policy on Internet gaming. "Cutting the Wire" carefully dissects two centuries of American attempts to balance public interest with the technology of gambling....

Authors: Carole E. Levitt.
Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: American Bar Association
Publication Date: 2004-04-25
Edition: 2nd

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    This updated and expanded second edition is your complete, hands-on guide that shares the secrets, shortcuts, and realities of conducting fact--finding on the Internet....

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Hardcover, 346 pages
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Publication Date: 2004-10


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    Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers' perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This book contains theoretical and empirical research from expert scholars in a number of areas including communications, psychology, marketing and advertising, and information systems. This book provides an integrated look at the subject area as described above to further our understanding of the linkage among various disciplines inherently connected with one another in electronic commerce. ...

Authors: Mark A. Lemley. Peter S. Menell. Robert P. Merges. Pamela Samuelson.
Hardcover, 1115 pages
Publisher: Aspen Law & Business Publishers
Publication Date: 2001-06-01

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Library Binding, 78 pages
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Publication Date: 2004-10-29
Edition: 1

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    The practice of downloading music off the Internet first gained nationwide popularity in 1999, with a service called Napster that enabled users to copy digital music files from thousands of other users connected to the Napster network. Napster was forced to shut its network down in 2001, but dozens of other file-sharing networks have taken its place, and now users are swapping movies and software as well as music files. Users of these services call it sharing; the entertainment industry calls it theft of intellectual property. This volume examines the arguments of both sides. (20020801)...

Authors: Rolf Weber.
Paperback, 207 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2002-10-03
Edition: 1

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    Global networks have become a major political, economic, and legal topic in discussions among the participants of the "global community". Around the world, governments, legal scholars, and practitioners are in the process of developing theories in respect of the regulation of the online world. These attempts are usually based on a given national "legal culture"; this approach, however, underestimates the importance of an "umbrella" concept. The purpose of this study accordingly consists in the comparative discussion of basic regulatory models (traditional government regulation, international agreements, self-regulation, code-based-regulation) and in the evaluation of their merits related to different topics that play a role in the online world (market entry, access, infrastructure stability, intellectual property, privacy, bad content, and so on) an easy solution is obviously not possible; however, a detailed examination on a comparative legal basis can give some insights for future regulatory initiatives....