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Information Technology Law takes a unique socio-legal approach to examining the interaction between the law and other elements of the information society. Murray discusses relevant issues such as governance, free expression, and crime with enthusiasm, and looks forward to future challenges presented by developing technologies.
List of contents
- Part I: The Information Society
- 1:: The world of bits
- 2:: The network of networks
- 3:: Net neutrality
- 4:: Regulating the information society
- Part II: Content and the Information Society
- 5:: Cyber-speech
- 6:: Social networking and antisocial conduct
- 7:: Defamation
- Part III: Digital Content and Intellectual Property Rights
- 8:: Intellectual property rights and the information society
- 9:: Software
- 10:: Digital creatives and copyright law
- 11:: Copyright in the digital environment
- 12:: Copyright infringement in the digital environment
- 13:: Databases
- 14:: Branding, trade marks and domain names
- 15:: Brand identities, search engines, and secondary ma rkets
- Part IV: E-Commerce
- 16:: Electronic contracts
- 17:: Electronic payments and cryptocurrency
- 18:: Consumer protection
- Part V: Criminal Activity in the Information Society
- 19:: Computer misuse
- 20:: Obscenity in the information society
- 21:: Crime and law enforcement in the information society
- Part VI: Data Privacy
- 22:: Data protection: the legal framework
- 23:: Data protection: rights and obligations
- 24:: The international trade in personal data
- 25:: State surveillance and data retention
Summary
Information Technology Law takes a unique socio-legal approach to examining the interaction between the law and other elements of the information society. Murray discusses relevant issues such as governance, free expression, and crime with enthusiasm, and looks forward to future challenges presented by developing technologies.
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The compendium does an excellent job of not only explaining information technology law but also explaining the landscape for such laws and regulations.
