Law of the Web: A Field Guide to Internet Publishing, 2003 Edition

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.