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Zusatztext The editors have succeeded in again crafting connections between individual contributions... the reader will dip in and out of this book using it as a specialist reference tool where necessary.Essential further reading to develop a greater insight into the subjects covered. Informationen zum Autor Lilian Edwards is Emerita Professor of Law, Innovation & Society at Newcastle University, UK. Charlotte Waelde is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Coventry. Klappentext 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 expert authors to write about those aspects of internet law which are of special importance in the global regulation of the internet. The book is focused around three principal themes e-commerce, intellectual property (IP), 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 clearer and more comprehensive analysis of the ways in which IP and the internet intersect, including coverage of open source licenses and the IP problems around search engines. The third edition also takes account of all current cases and l Zusammenfassung This book offers students and practitioners an up-to-date overview of developments in Internet law and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
