Summary: | Cut through the legal complexities and make the most of the Internet's vast opportunities! the Law of the Internet quickly and easily gives you everything you need to counsel expertly on: Applying privacy laws to electronic communications issues Ensuring secure electronic transactions, cryptography, and digital signatures Protecting intellectual property online through link licenses, frame control and other methods Electronic commerce and contracting Online financial services and securities transactions Antitrust and other liability Internal network security Taxation of electronic commerce Jurisdiction in Cyberspace As well as Internet legal issues arising under libel and slander laws and obscenity and indecency laws. You'll Understand The commercial uses of the Internet, maximize business opportunities, and master effective ways to apply already established statutes, regulations and precedents. The authors -- two Internet legal experts who advise America's top high-tech companies -- demonstrate exactly how courts, legislators and treaties expand traditional law into the new context of the Internet and its commercial applications, with all the citations you'll need. Special features include timesaving checklists and references to online resources.
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