TY  - GEN
N2  - Various legal issues arise from the massive expansion and commercial use of the Internet. The law regulating the Internet must deal not only with widely publicized problems such as Internet libel, computer crime and copyright on the World Wide Web, but also with issues relating to electronic contacting, intellectual property rights, and electronic evidence and procedure. This book focuses on these and other topical issues in the "law of cyberspace". An emphasis is put on what practitioners need to know to use the Internet for business, and the benefits and disadvantages of setting up a legal Web site.
AB  - Various legal issues arise from the massive expansion and commercial use of the Internet. The law regulating the Internet must deal not only with widely publicized problems such as Internet libel, computer crime and copyright on the World Wide Web, but also with issues relating to electronic contacting, intellectual property rights, and electronic evidence and procedure. This book focuses on these and other topical issues in the "law of cyberspace". An emphasis is put on what practitioners need to know to use the Internet for business, and the benefits and disadvantages of setting up a legal Web site.
T1  - Law and the internet :regulating cyberspace /
AU  - Edwards, Lilian,
AU  - Waelde, Charlotte,
CN  - K564.C6
N1  - Contents : Part 1. Introduction : EDWARDS, Lilian, WAELDE, Charlotte. Introduction; TERRETT, Andrew. A lawyer's introduction to the Internet; MACKENZIE, John. Setting up a legal Web Site : pitfalls and promises; Part 2. Intellectual property aspects : WAELDE, Charlotte. Trade marks and domain names : What's in a name? MACQUEEN, Hector. Copyright and the Internet; Part 3. Electronic commerce : DAVIES, Lars. Contract formation on the Internet : shattering a few myths; MACQUEEN, Hector. Software transactions and contract law; LLYOD, Ian. Legal barriers to electronic contracts : formal requirements and digital signatures; EDEN, Sandra. The taxation of electronic commerce; Part 4. Liability for content on the Internet : EDWARDS, Lilian. Defamation and the Internet : name-calling in cyberspace; BONNINGTON, Alistair. News without frontiers : Pre-trial prejudice and the Internet; CULLEN, Paul. Computer crime; AKDENITZ, Yaman. Governance of pornography and child pornography on the global Internet : a multi-layered approach; Part 5. Electronic evidence and procedure : GALE, Stuart. The impact of information technology upon civil practice and procedure;.
N1  - Contributions d'un congrès ayant eu lieu à Edinburgh en mars 1997, organisé par la Faculty of advocates in Edinburgh et le Department of private law at the University of Edinburgh.
N1  - 14. The Impact of Information Technology Upon Civil Practice and Procedure / Stuart Gale.
ID  - 21990
KW  - Computer systems
KW  - Copyright.
KW  - Intellectual property.
KW  - LAW AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES : INTERNET LAW
KW  - Réseaux d'ordinateurs
SN  - 1901362302
TI  - Law and the internet :regulating cyberspace /
ER  -