Information Technology Law: The Law and Society

Part I: The Information Society

1:: The world of bits
2:: The network of networks
3:: Net neutrality
4:: Regulating the information society
Part II: Content and the Information Society
5:: Cyber-speech
6:: Social networking and antisocial conduct
7:: Defamation
Part III: Digital Content and Intellectual Property Rights
8:: Intellectual property rights and the information society
9:: Software
10:: Digital creatives and copyright law
11:: Copyright in the digital environment
12:: Copyright infringement in the digital environment
13:: Databases
14:: Branding, trade marks and domain names
15:: Brand identities, search engines, and secondary ma rkets
Part IV: E-Commerce
16:: Electronic contracts
17:: Electronic payments and cryptocurrency
18:: Consumer protection
Part V: Criminal Activity in the Information Society
19:: Computer misuse
20:: Obscenity in the information society
21:: Crime and law enforcement in the information society
Part VI: Data Privacy
22:: Data protection: the legal framework
23:: Data protection: rights and obligations
24:: The international trade in personal data
25:: State surveillance and data retention
Online only chapters
26:: Digital Ownership
27:: The digital public sphere
28:: Virtual environments

29:: The future for IT law

Andrew Murray has been Chief of Staff of Unite union since 2011, and was previously its Director of Communications. He was Chair of the Stop the War Coalition. He is the author of a number of books on history and politics, including Off the Rails: The Crisis on Britain’s Railways, A New Labour Nightmare and with Lindsey German Stop the War: The Story of Britain’s Biggest Mass Movement. He worked as part of the strategic leadership of Labour’s 2017 general election campaign.