Market/Audience:
Web Publishers - Internet Content Providers & anyone who publishes content to the Web, does business over
the Web, and anyone who develops or maintains websites.
Product Summary:
Over the last two decades, the Internet has grown from a novel means of communication among research
scientists into a tool of mass communication essential to the daily lives of millions of people and businesses.
The Internet is now widely used to send and receive messages, to buy and sell goods and services, and to
access and disseminate information.
Not surprisingly, many legal issues recently addressed by the courts
and legislatures in the United States and around the world involve how
traditional bodies of law-such as trademark, copyright, defamation,
contracts, privacy, and taxation-apply in this new electronic
medium. With the author's helpful analysis and insightful commentary,
this book tracks the important legal developments-court cases and
legislation-that are now impacting Internet publishing. It also
addresses key issues that are likely to become increasingly
significant to Internet users and abusers in the coming years.
This book will help you understand your legal rights and
responsibilities. Moreover, if your livelihood depends on publishing
content on the Web, or protecting those who do, the book provides
real-life case-bycase examples of people who were rewarded for doing
it right and people who have been busted for doing it wrong. You can
learn from their lessons.
Key Features:
* · Case law and legislation explanations
* · Discussion of trademark, copyright, libel and privacy and how these law related to these issues applies to the Internet
Jonathan D. Hart is a member of the law firm of Dow, Lohnes
& Albertson, PLLC, where he practices in the firm's Media and
Information Technologies group out of Washington, D.C. He specializes
in the representation of media and technology companies on a broad
range of commercial, transactional, operational, and content
matters. His clients include dozens of Web publishers, newspapers,
magazines, broadcasters, and software and technology companies. Jon is
the author of @Law, a column on legal issues impacting the new
economy, which is a regular feature on WSJ.com, and of Web Publishing
Law, an Online Books publication of the Association of Educational
Publishers. Jon is a frequent speaker on media law and the Internet.
