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Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-Line World by Gavino Morin, Edward Cavazos (Paperback, 1994)

What legal recourse do you have if someone has read your private e-mail without your consent? Who owns the copyright to the message just posted on a bulletin board? Can you get into trouble for downloading a sexually explicit file? These are among the many questions that the authors, both practising attorneys, address in Cyberspace and the Law. Without resorting to confusing legalese, they present a clear and concise analysis of legal issues in the anarchic world of cyberspace for members of the on-line world who have little or no legal background. The introduction provides a quick tour of cyberspace (on-line services, bulletin board systems, private systems, and networks) and activities (e-mail, public messaging systems, software exchange, electronic publishing, entertainment, chat, educational and research services, and commercial applications). The authors then take up electronic privacy issues including anonymity and both statutory and common law approaches to protecting private communications (featuring a discussion of Steve Jackson Games v. United States Secret Service); the virtual marketplace of electronic contracts and credit card transactions; copyright law in an uncharted new world; freedom of speech; adult material (digitized images, animated sequences, sexually explicit text, hot chat ); and cyber-crimes.

Subject Area
Legal History
Author
Gavino Morin, Edward Cavazos
Publication Name
Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-Line World
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Law, Social Sciences, Computer Science
Publication Year
1994
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
230 Pages

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