Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensive legal resource for the dot.com economy, the 12 chapters of this treatise cover all major areas of Internet law and practice: electronic contracts; privacy; jurisdiction; trademark; copyright; defamation; computer crime; censorship; legal research and practice; tax; patents; and securities. This treatise considers developments in Internet law, including: The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; Legislation and cases on unsolicited commercial e-mail; Shrinkwrap and clickwrap license enforcement decisions; FTC actions against websites for privacy policy violations; Decisions on and proposed regulation of encryption export controls; The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act; Analysis of copyright cases, including Tasini versus New York Times, Ryan versus Carl Corp. and the MP3 music case.