E Business: The Practical Guide to the Laws

This is an easy-to-read, jargon-busting guide to the legal issues affecting online business. The use of bullet points and checklists provide useful aide memoirs, while the sample clauses and contracts are invaluable. The book deals with the E-Commerce Regulations (EC Directive) 2002, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. It explains how these affect on-line trading and marketing.

Offering practical advice on how to manage e-business issues, the book also explains various contractual relationships which directors and managers will be asked to enter into. The authors provide useful pointers on negotiation and the practical analysis of contract issues including web site design and build, hosting content, linking, outsourcing and other third party relationships.

Amanda Brock, a qualified solicitor, currently is General Counsel to Canonical software. Previously with Dixons Group Plc, she has worked on the launch of Freeserve and legal issues faced by an ISP, as well as dealing with Dixon's world-wide e-business.

Rafi Azim-Khan heads Pilsbury Winthorpe LLP’s e-Business and Marketing Law Groups. He is well-known for his high level, cutting edge e-commerce and marketing advice for major corporate, technology and brand clients. He has been described by one e-business directory as one of the UK’s ‘Digital Dozen’ specialists.