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Issues In Internet Law
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Was that online contract you clicked on really enforceable, even if you just scrolled down and did not read it?

Is receiving pornography in office e-mail from your co-workers sexual harassment?

Can a student be suspended for comments on her Web site about her teacher?

Can someone insult you online and get away with it?

Can stalkers find your personal information online?

What can you legally put on your Web site?

And what are you not allowed to put on your Web site?

Do you really own your domain name?

Can a library censor your Internet use?

Do you know who's reading your e-mail?

Is it legal to gamble online?

How “private” is your private information after you disclose it to a Web site?

Is a student exercising his First Amendment rights when he creates a hate website on a public school’s Internet server?

Can you get in trouble for making a gripe site about a business that ripped you off?

Did you know the Web sites you visit and the words you type into search engines are being logged.

Do other countries address these issues differently from the U.S.?

Which country’s laws apply on the Internet?

These are just some of the issues addressed in this book.

The Author - Dr. Keith B. Darrell

Having been a journalist, web designer, and attorney, Dr. Darrell brings a unique perspective to the subject of Internet Law, as the courts and Congress struggle to adapt the 18th century First Amendment to the 21st century technology of the Internet.

Dr. Darrell earned his A.A. from Broward Community College, his B.S. in Journalism from the University of Florida, his M.B.A. from Emory University, and his J.D. from the Emory School of Law.

 

Reviews

—— "A top-notch book... it deals with the complex legal issues surrounding the Internet... written in layman's terms and illustrated with "ripped from the headlines" court cases." - Marian K. Brown, Amazon.com review, Seattle, WA

—— "I want a copy on my bookshelf always within arm's reach." - Jeremy Pound, Web Designer, Palm Beach, FL

—— "A valuable resource, well-researched and well presented." - Paul M. Kade, Attorney, Kendall, FL

—— "Your book, by the way, is great. It answers a lot of questions my clients (about 25-35 web designers & graphic artists) deal with. Often they ask me and I know only one intellectual property attorney who is up on this stuff. And you have a 100% greater inside knowledge not just of the law, but the issues as well." - Barbara Effros, Accountant, Los Angeles, CA

—— "The anecdotal nature of the book made it very easy to understand the underlying legal concepts." - Scott Greenberg, Physician, St. Louis, MO

—— "Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law will be a welcome addition in both academic and public law libraries... It should be acquired by libraries for its concise overview of Internet-related legal issues." - Law Library Journal

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This book is about change. Change brought on by advances in technology and the effects on society and, in turn, how the law copes with those changes. Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law is a view of the law through the prism of society and culture. Advances in technology have always changed societies, and there has never been as far-reaching and profound an advance as the Internet. By reaching across all borders into all societies and cultures, the Internet has created a single virtual world – a melting pot where each society’s cultures, mores, and values are interchanged. Differing political, religious, and cultural ideas, practices and beliefs assail web visitors at each mouse click. From the comfort of your living room you can enter the website portal into the world of a Muslim boy in Afghanistan, a Russian girl in the Ukraine, a Japanese student, a Klansman in Alabama, a gay man in San Francisco, or a bedridden woman whose only contact with the outside world is the Internet. A woman in China learns what life is like for her counterpart in London, a Jewish boy reads the daily blog of an Arab teenager, while an evangelical preacher’s son reads the online diary of a young man describing coming to grips with the realization of his own homosexuality. It would be impossible for the Internet not to change the very fabric of every society on earth.

Some nations want to block access to, or at least filter, content on the Internet. Marketers realize the Internet provides unsurpassed access to consumers, but such access may entail threats to privacy, manipulation of children, risk of fraud, and undesired annoyances such as spam. The Internet has become the world’s largest, most pervasive soapbox where anyone and everyone can have their 15 minutes of fame. But the downside of such unlimited global access is that the megaphone of the Internet can be used to disseminate misinformation, libel, and hate speech. Laws are required to protect consumers, investors, children, and those who are defamed, or subjected to hate speech. But with hundreds of nations, each with its own jurisprudence, cultural and societal mores, philosophies, and legal systems, which laws will prevail and – even if every nation on earth shared the same jurisprudence – how could any single nation apply its laws to a technology that knows no boundaries? The Internet is like a giant snake slithering across every country – each nation focuses on the portion of the snake it sees and tries to apply its jurisprudence to that portion. Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law looks at the attempts of nations to overlay their laws upon the Internet.

The 2009 edition of Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law has been updated with the latest cases and trends in Internet Law. Topics include Privacy
(invasion of privacy, public records, workplace privacy, employer & ISP monitoring, data retention & data breaches, e-mail & chat room privacy, Web site privacy policies, behavioral marketing, privacy and children); Free Speech (defamation, SLAPPs, gripe sites, blogs & vlogs, obscenity & pornography, harassment & hate speech, prior restraint & repression); Cybercrimes (spam, phishing, identity theft, spyware & malware, cyberstalking); Intellectual Property (copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, Creative Commons, linking, framing, file-sharing, fair use, public domain, work-made-for-hire, VARA, linking & framing, domain name disputes, keyword advertising, right of publicity); Web Contracts, Web Accessibility; Net Neutrality; Internet Interstate Commerce; Online Reputation Management; Podcasts; Social Networks; and many more subjects.


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436 pages, 7x10 (Available in Hardcover and Softcover)

2009 Edition Publication Date: September 2008. Published by Amber Book Company.

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