Law for Computing Students
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776814717
Table of contents: title: Innhold; title: Introduction; title: The purpose of this book; title: Geographical perspective; title: Further reading; title: The nature of English law; title: Different jurisdictions; title: Is IT law special?; title: The nature of the adversaries; title: Sources of law; title: Bases of legal authority; title: Faulty supplies; title: Breach of contract v. tort; title: IT contracts; title: Letters of intent; title: Interpretation of contracts; title: Torts; title: Intellectual property; title: The growing importance of intangible assets; title: Copyright and patent; title: Do we need intellectual-property laws?; title: Copyright for software; title: Two software-copyright cases; title: Databases; title: The focus shifts from copyright to patent; title: The nature of patent law; title: Is software patentable?; title: Some software-patent cases; title: The American position; title: An unstable situation; title: Law and rapid technical change: a case study; title: Film versus video; title: The Attorney General seeks a ruling; title: Pornography meets the internet; title: Are downloads publications?; title: Censoring videos; title: The difficulty of amending the law; title: R. v. Fellows and Arnold; title: Allowing downloads is “showing”; title: What is a copy of a photograph?; title: Uncertainties remain; title: The wider implications; title: Personal data rights; title: Data protection and freedom of information; title: The Freedom of Information Act; title: Limiting the burden; title: Implications for the private sector; title: Government recalcitrance; title: Attitudes to privacy; title: Is there a right to privacy in Britain?; title: The history of data protection; title: The Data Protection Act in outline; title: The Bodil Lindqvist case; title: The Data Protection Act in more detail; title: Is the law already outdated?; title: Web law; title: The internet and contract; title: Ownership of domain names; title: Web 2.0 and defamation; title: Regulatory compliance; title: Sarbanes–Oxley and after; title: Accessibility; title: E-discovery; title: Conclusion; title: Endnotes