Book Overview
A guide to e-commerce law, explaining the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the Communications Decency Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and Copyright Act, the Lanham Act, and relevant portions of the FTC Act and regulations, state laws, EU regulations, treaties, the U.C.C., and more. Topics covered include: (1) Starting and managing a business; (2) Hiring, firing and managing employees; (3) Securities regulations; (4) Contract and sales law; (5) E-contracts and e-signatures; (6) Electronic credit, debit and ETF transactions; (7) Chargebacks; (8) Sales and use taxes; (9) Data security; (10) trade secret; (11) Patents; (12) Proprietary information; (13) Unfair competition; (14) Unfair and deceptive trade practices; (15) Trade disparagement; (16) Defamation; (17) Advertising; (18) Publicity rights; (19) Trademarks; (20) Keywords and meta-tags; (21) Domain names; (22) Cybersquatting; (23) UDRP proceedings; (24) Liability for user-provided content; (25) Children and child-directed advertising and websites; (26) Adult (sexually explicit) content; (27) Privacy rights; (28) Copyrights; (29) Fair use doctrine; (30) The public domain; (31) Licensing intellectual property rights; (32) Jurisdiction in cyberspace; (33) Dispute resolution. Includes notes, table of statutes and cases; bibliography; index.
