Authors: Jerry Lawson.
Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: American Bar Association
Publication Date: 1999-09-15
Edition: 1st

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    Designed to help lawyers and other legal professionals make the most of their opportunities in the coming Web revolution by providing an orientation to the Internet. Provides nuts-andbolts advice on how the Internet works, with warnings of traps to avoid, and a reference manual of technical information. Softcover. ...

Authors: Ang Peng Hwa.
Hardcover, 216 pages
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2005-07-30
Edition: 1st

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    Back in the early 1990s, in its infancy, the Internet was said by many to be incapable of being regulated and that it should stay that way. This book shows why the Internet needs regulating and how it has been and can be done. It takes empirical evidence from real-life cases and uses them to explain regulatory approaches and paradigms.

The book adopts an expansive view of regulation, including the deployment of technology, the use of market forces, the formulation of industry self-regulation as well as legislation. It shows the possibilities and limits of the regulatory approaches and why policy makers should take a light-handed approach to regulation attempting alternative regulatory means and letting technology before passing legislation. Policy makers, particularly from developing countries, and students of policy should find the book useful in understanding how judicious regulation can help the Internet grow to fulfil its promise....

Authors: Wendy Herumin.
Library Binding, 128 pages
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Publication Date: 2004-02

Authors: Jody Westby.
Paperback, 260 pages
Publisher: American Bar Association
Publication Date: 2003-02-25


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    Online Version - Discusses current cybercrime laws and practices. Available online for downloading....

Authors: Dana Blankenhorn.
Paperback, 220 pages
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication Date: 2006-07-06


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    The Blankenhorn Effect explains how Morre's Law, a challenge laid down in 1965, has been applied to all the technology we touch. Not only do billions of circuits dance on slivers no bigger than a fingernail, but similar improvements have been made in magnetic memory, optical memory, optical storage, and even radio to create today's Internet....

Authors: Patricia L. Bella; Paul Schiff Berman; David G. Post.
Hardcover, 836 pages
Publisher: West Group
Publication Date: 2006-11-29
Edition: 3

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    This innovative casebookwhich has proved extremely popular with students and professors alikestarts from the premise that cyberlaw is not simply a set of legal rules governing online interaction, but a lens through which broader jurisprudential issues can be re-examined. Accordingly, this book goes beyond plugging Internet-related cases into a series of pre-existing doctrinal categoriesFirst Amendment, copyright, trademark, etc.and instead emphasizes the conceptual debates that cut across the areas of doctrine touched by cyberspace. Moreover, the casebook uses the rise of the Internet to encourage readers to reconsider various assumptions in traditional legal doctrine. This dual focus provides readers with broad-based and sophisticated training in Internet-related legal issues while also making the argument that cyberlaw is a coherent and useful field of study. Thus, instead of compiling a list of topic areas, the book seeks to define a set of conceptual issues that extend across the spectrum of Internet legal dilemmas. While all of the traditional subject matter areas of cyberlaw are addressed, they are placed in a new framework one that asks both students and professors to consider what it is that cyberlaw has to teach us about law more generally. The new edition retains the qualities that have made the book so successful in law schools across the country. It is compact, serves a variety of course formats, builds new cases on top of a foundation of non internet legal doctrine, and fosters lively and provocative class discussions. The third edition will, of course, provide updated case and statutory coverage, but in addition, the casebook has undergone a major revision to provide even greater conceptual clarity and respond to user feedback Treatment of subjects has been adjusted throughout to reflect new thinking in the field, each chapter now includes greater framing to highlight the issues to be explored, materials have been reordered to make more intuitive conne...

Authors: Cass R. Sunstein.
Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 2002-03-25


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See only what you want to see, hear only what you want to hear, read only what you want to read. In cyberspace, we already have the ability to filter out everything but what we wish to see, hear, and read. Tomorrow, our power to filter promises to increase exponentially. With the advent of the Daily Me, you see only the sports highlights that concern your teams, read about only the issues that interest you, encounter in the op-ed pages only the opinions with which you agree. In all of the applause for this remarkable ascendance of personalized information, Cass Sunstein asks the questions, Is it good for democracy? Is it healthy for the republic? What does this mean for freedom of speech?

Republic.com exposes the drawbacks of egocentric Internet use, while showing us how to approach the Internet as responsible citizens, not just concerned consumers. Democracy, Sunstein maintains, depends on shared experiences and requires citizens to be exposed to topics and ideas that they would not have chosen in advance. Newspapers and broadcasters helped create a shared culture, but as their role diminishes and the customization of our communications universe increases, society is in danger of fragmenting, shared communities in danger of dissolving. In their place will arise only louder and ever more extreme echoes of our own voices, our own opinions.

In evaluating the consequences of new communications technologies for democracy and free speech, Sunstein argues the question is not whether to regulate the Net (it's already regulated), but how; proves that freedom of speech is not an absolute; and underscores the enormous potential of the Internet to promote freedom as well as its potential to promote "cybercascades" of like-minded opinions that foster and enflame hate groups. The book ends by suggesting a range of potential reforms to correct current misconceptions and to improve deliberative democracy and the health of the American republic.

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    The center does not hold. The rise of customizable media has mainstream thinkers, used to a near-monopoly on attention, running scared. Legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein makes the case for a more robust information diet from a slightly left of center point of view in Republic.com. Building on the ideas of the Technorealist movement, Sunstein focuses on the increasing volume of extremist voices as people choose to read or listen to only those points of view they already share. Though it seems that he occasionally overstates his case--it seems unlikely that we'll ever really be able to filter every unwanted or unexpected opinion--he does score some solid blows against the current, more or less laissez faire system. His prose is clear and accessible--exactly the kind of reasoned discourse he values and wants to preserve. His proposed program of government-sponsored and mandated public media spaces probably won't rouse many readers to wholehearted endorsement, but the suggestion that we have problems brewing ought to be enough to spur further thought. Since everyone from the American Nazi Party to the Zapatistas has found a stronger voice via the Internet, it's little wonder that we're starting to hear concerned prophets warning of a new Babel. Whether we can--or should--do anything beforehand is an open question; Republic.com makes a strong and pointed case against the status quo. --Rob Lightner ...

Authors:
Paperback, 392 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Publication Date: 1998-09-30
Edition: 1

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    A detailed commentary about the V-chip and its impact on communication policy. For scholars, lawyers, policy makers, and others interested in mass comm., broadcasting, and program rating issues.
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Paperback, 284 pages
Publisher: European Press Academic Publishing
Publication Date: 2007-02-13

Authors: O. Lee Reed. Peter J. Shedd. Jere W. Morehead. Robert N. Corley. Jere Morehead. Peter Shedd. Robert Corley.
Hardcover, pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Publication Date: 2001-07-05
Edition: 12

Reviews :

    Reed, Shedd, Morehead and Corley's, The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business, is the landmark text that established the field for the Legal Environment of Business course. The 12th Edition continues the fine tradition of highlighting the legal and regulatory environment in which people and companies conduct business activities. It emphasizes public rather than private law. This 12th Edition is now a four-color product for the very first time and highlighted changes include important coverage of e-commerce and intellectual property....