Information technology law / Ian J. Lloyd.

London : Butterworths, 2000.

3rd ed.

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Information technology.

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

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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

29. Cryptography, electronic signatures and the Electronic Communications Act 2000

30. Tax and the Internet

31. Defamation.

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