Information technology law
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Information technology law
Butterworths, 2000
3rd ed
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Includes index
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"This book contains Website addresses and passwords for instant access to amended and updated text covering developments in the industry as and when they occur. The title has been fully updated to include all relevant legislation passed since the last edition, including the Data Protection Act 1998 and examines the national and international basis for action on such topics as data protection and computer crime. It analyses the effectiveness of current intellectual property legislation, and takes account of the massive strides taken in the use of the Internet throughout society and the challenges faced by companies and individuals created by a boom in e-commerce."
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The emerging information society
- 2. Internet regulation and the rise of .com
- 3. Technology, privacy and surveillance
- 4. The emergence of data protection
- 5. The scope of data protection
- 6. Supervision of data users
- 7. The data protection principles
- 8. Individual rights and remedies
- 9. Sectoral aspects of data protection
- 10. Transborder data flows
- 11. Emerging legal responses to computer misuse
- 12. Computer fraud and the move to legislation
- 13. The Computer Misuse Act 1990
- 14. Theft of information
- 15. Computer pornography
- 16. Detecting and prosecuting computer crime
- 17. Intellectual property law
- 18. Key elements of the patent system
- 19. Patents and software
- 20. Copyright protection
- 21. Copyright in the information society
- 22. Protection of databases
- 23. Trademark issues
- 24. Protection of semiconductor chip designs
- 25. Competition, standards and intellectual property
- 26. Contractual liability for defective software
- 27. Non-contractual liability
- 28. International and European initiatives in e-commerce
- 29. Cryptography, electronic signatures and the Electronic Communications Act 2000
- 30. Tax and the Internet
- 31. Defamation
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