Intellectual Property in the Age of Universal Access

The challenge in Intellectual Property Law today is to understand not only the constantly changing and developing trends and policies, but to also understand the technology that fuels them. ACM, The Association for Computing Machinery, hopes that this new volume, Intellectual Property in the Age of Universal Access, will act as a link between lawyers and information technology specialists and provide unique perspectives on they way the two fields affect each other. Written by some of the most influential minds in the Intellectual Property and Informational Technology fields, this compendium of seventeen articles includes topics such as:

*Trademark disputes
*E-commerce laws and long arm jurisdictions
*The Communications Decency Act
*Practical legalities of software reverse engineering
*Encoding the law of digital libraries
*Privacy considerations
*Look-and-feel and fair use lawsuits
*Cryptography's role in securing information
*Does information really need to be licensed?
*Embedding technical self-help in licensed software
*Digital signatures, digital cash
*Digital Millenium Copyright Act
*Database protection

Pamela Samuelson is a noted law professor, speaker, and author on issues of intellectual property law. In 1997, she was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacAurthur Foundation. She is a professor of Information Management and of Law at the University at California, Berkeley.

Peter Neumann is the oft-quoted expert on matters of computer security and author of Computer-Related Risks, Addison Wesley, 1995. He also moderates the ACM RISKS Forum.

Brain Behren is an attorney specializing in business law.

Katharine E. Smith is an associate with the law offices of Pennie & Edmonds, NY. She specializes in trademark litigation, including Internet domain name disputes.

Bruce Schneier, leading cryptography expert, is the author of Applied Cyrptography, Wiley 96.

Richard L. Field is a legal advisor in e-commerce, payment systems, and emerging technologies.

Reuven Levary is a professor of decision sciences at St. Louis University.

Robert Aalberts is a professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Anthony Townsend is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada; and Michael Whitman is an associate professor at Kennesaw State University.

Ned Kock is an assistant professor at Temple University.

Barbara Simons is the president of ACM.