An edition of Law for Computing Students
(2013)
Law for Computing Students
by Geoffrey Sampson
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Anyone hoping for an IT career needs to know something of how the IT industry is affected by the law.
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2013
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Table of Contents
Innhold
Introduction
The purpose of this book
Geographical perspective
Further reading
The nature of English law
Different jurisdictions
Is IT law special?
The nature of the adversaries
Sources of law
Bases of legal authority
Faulty supplies
Breach of contract v. tort
IT contracts
Letters of intent
Interpretation of contracts
Torts
Intellectual property
The growing importance of intangible assets
Copyright and patent
Do we need intellectual-property laws?
Copyright for software
Two software-copyright cases
Databases
The focus shifts from copyright to patent
The nature of patent law
Is software patentable?
Some software-patent cases
The American position
An unstable situation
Law and rapid technical change: a case study
Film versus video
The Attorney General seeks a ruling
Pornography meets the internet
Are downloads publications?
Censoring videos
The difficulty of amending the law
R. v. Fellows and Arnold
Allowing downloads is “showing”
What is a copy of a photograph?
Uncertainties remain
The wider implications
Personal data rights
Data protection and freedom of information
The Freedom of Information Act
Limiting the burden
Implications for the private sector
Government recalcitrance
Attitudes to privacy
Is there a right to privacy in Britain?
The history of data protection
The Data Protection Act in outline
The Bodil Lindqvist case
The Data Protection Act in more detail
Is the law already outdated?
Web law
The internet and contract
Ownership of domain names
Web 2.0 and defamation
Regulatory compliance
Sarbanes–Oxley and after
Accessibility
E-discovery
Conclusion
Endnotes
ID Numbers
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| July 2, 2019 | Edited by LeadSongDog | merge authors |
| December 5, 2015 | Edited by Alice Kirk | Edited without comment. |
| December 5, 2015 | Created by Alice Kirk | Added new book. |