Unfortunately, this important section could be discussed in slightly more detail. For instance, only one sentence is devoted to injunctive relief even though injunctions are a very important remedy in IT contexts. However, this matter could be remedied in a future edition. The key to a boom in e-commerce is a legal system that promotes secure and stable electronic financial transactions. The chapter commences with an overview of the Australian financial system then examines the legal concept and function of 'money' in both the traditional sense and in a digital environment.
Chapter Four focuses on the important area of intellectual property in information technology.
This chapter includes a discussion of important aspects of software patents and other forms of protection for information technology such as copyright, trade mark and confidential information laws. Akindemowo includes a very important assessment of the impact of existing copyright laws in the digital age. For example, authorisation infringements by IPS and the inadequacy of transmission rights under the technologically specific C opyright Act 1968 . A thorough analysis of the difficult issue of copyright or sui generis protection for databases and multimedia rounds out the copyright section. The author then proceeds to deal with the fascinating issue of trade marks and domain names.