Cyberlaw, 2 vols.075462434X Cyberlaw; 2v. Ed. by Brian Fitzgerald Brian Fitzgerald (born March 1 1947) is an Irish Independent politician. He was a Labour Party Teachta Dála for Meath from 1992 to 1997. Previously a trade union official with SIPTU, Fitzgerald was elected to Dáil Éireann for Meath during the swing to Labour in the 1992 . Dartmouth Publishing 2006 1144 pages $475.00 Hardcover The international library of essays in law and legal theory; 2d series K564 The increasingly prominent field of cyberlaw, as Fitzgerald (Queensland U. of Technology, Australia) notes in the introduction to this two-volume reader, "covers a broad array of topics, including digital intellectual property, electronic commerce, electronic transactions, privacy in the electronic or online environment, cybercrime cybercrime also known as computer crime Any use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. , digital entertainment, jurisdiction, and content regulation." The 37 papers presented, previously published between 1994 and 2005 in international law journals and a few other sources, are organized into sections discussing broad legal issues of the Internet; regulation of cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. , including subsections on self- regulation and digital libertarianism libertarianism Political philosophy that stresses personal liberty. Libertarians believe that individuals should have complete freedom of action, provided their actions do not infringe on the freedom of others. , self-regulation and industry governance, code as law, and contract and private ordering; digital constitutionalism con·sti·tu·tion·al·ism n. 1. Government in which power is distributed and limited by a system of laws that must be obeyed by the rulers. 2. a. A constitutional system of government. b. ; jurisdiction; content regulation; intellectual property, including subsections on copyright and patents; e-commerce and competition policy; privacy; spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). ; and intermediary liability. Fitzgerald's goal in presenting these papers is to provide a broad introduction to the key issues of the field of cyberlaw. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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