Book details of 'Netlaw: Your Rights in the Online World'

Title	Netlaw: Your Rights in the Online World
Author(s)	Lance Rose, Scott Rogers, Joanne Cuthbertson
ISBN	0078820774
Language	English
Published	February 1995
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Companies

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Netlaw is designed to keep Net users out of trouble. Longtime online legal expert Lance Rose takes some of the thorny legal issues that arise for users of online services, and offers reasonable, rational assessments of copyright, precedents, laws, individual rights, and risks of all kinds of online activity. In many cases, of course, there simply are no precedents to the legal tangles one might uncover on the Net. Rose nicely summarizes what is possible and probable legally in the many gray areas. It's not a bad idea to be aware of the legal issues just out of principle, but if you're actively engaged in conducting business on the Web, preparing and distributing online content, or similar activities, you'll find this book an objective guide to the legal landscape online.
Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Very similar to his earlier "Syslaw" , this is a general guide to various legal aspects of life online. The major changes are the broadening of the scope from BBS level systems to include online services and the Internet, and very handy (and interesting) sidebars, which give a thumbnail sketch version of the topic under discussion. These usually include a reference to some specific case. Chapters address the issues of censorship, contracts, commerce, and copyright. Chapter four, which deals with the responsibility of the system operator in light of online dangers, does touch on the topic of malicious software. I was disappointed that this is limited to a not terribly accurate defining of terms, and almost no discussion of the admittedly confused legal situation. Further chapters cover privacy, crime, search and seizure, and a rather disappointing chapter on obscenity. Appendices include some very useful sample contracts, and various US laws. Given recent developments which have strongly indicated the international nature of the net and international legal ramifications, it is discouraging to see that Rose still presents only a limited and US-centric view. However, the general principles he describes are held in common law, and this book should at least provide guidance for the broader online world. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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NetLaw is an update and revision of Syslaw, a legal guide for system operators, previously distributed only through mail order. The book will achieve two goals: 1) Identify the legal issues that face individuals, corporations, system administrators, and online service providers as they move online and as the online world grows; and 2) Provide information critical to system administrators and system operators regarding the legal issues, liabilities, risks, etc. The book will include case studies of famous or important cases and issues, such as the Clipper encryption affair, and recent cases involving copyright on networks.