Law and the Internet

This is the third edition of a successful book which offers students and practitioners an up-to-date overview of developments in Internet law and practice. The editors have once again assembled a team of specialist authors to write about those aspects of Internet law which are of special importance in the global regulation of the Internet and focussed around three principal themes- e-commerce, intellectual property, and privacy, data protection and cyber-crime with, in addition a major contribution on Internet Governance. This edition incorporates for the first time areas such as data protection, privacy and electronic surveillance, cyber crime and cyber security, jurisdiction and dispute resolution online. The section on IP contains clear and comprehensive analysis of the many and varied ways in which IP and the internet intersect including open source licenses and the IP problems around search engines. The new edition also takes account of all current cases and legislation, including the draft revised EC Telecoms Package and the Audio Visual Media Services Directive.

This book will be essential reading for students, teachers and practitioners interested in Internet law and practice as well as technologists and social scientists.

Review

The book is easy to read, and has been well edited and flows smoothly through the various topics. The book provides a worthwhile overview of this developing area of law throughout the world.

- Peter Walsh,
International Trade Law Annual

A thorough and stimulating survey. A good introduction for lawyers and students approaching Internet and e-commerce law for the first time, and a useful course text.

- Brian Hutchinson,
The Irish Jurist

Introduction - Governance
IP and IT governance and recurrent themes - Antony Taubman
E-Commerce
1. E-Contracts - formalities and encryption and substantive law - Christine Riefa
2. Content liability and on-line intermediaries - Lilian Edwards
3. E-Payments - Andre Guadamuz
4. E-jurisdiction - Julia Hornle
Privacy and data protection
5. Data Protection basics - Lilian Edwards and Rowena Rodrigues
6. Data Protection - Cross border aspects - Andrew Charlesworth
7. Data Protection, e-commerce and consumers - Lilian Edwards
8. Privacy and Surveillance - RIPA, data retention - Judith Rauhofer
Cyber-crime and Internet Security
9. A criminological introduction? - Richard Jones
10. Pornography and the Internet - Lilian Edwards
11. Cyber-crime and security - Lilian Edwards
12. Cyber-crime and forensic evidence - Burkhard Shaffer
IP and the Internet
13. Copyright and the Net - Hector MacQueen
14. Trademarks and Domain Names - C Wilson
15. Protection of computer software - Arne Kolb
16. IP Issues for Search Engines - Charlotte Waelde
17. Open Source/FLOSS - Andre Guadamuz
18. Digital Open Access Issues - Charlotte Waelde
19. Competition, IP and the Internet - Abbe Brown
21. Media Convergence - Elizabeth Newman