Information Technology Law Book

List of Figures

List of Tables

Table of Cases

Table of Statutes

Table of Statutory Instruments

Table of European Legislation

Table of Conventions and Other Enactments

Pt. I Privacy and Data Protection

1 Privacy, technology, and surveillance 3

2 The emergence of data protection 20

3 The scope of data protection 39

4 Supervisory agencies 60

5 The data protection principles 86

6 Individual rights and remedies 119

7 Sectoral aspects of data protection 150

8 Transborder data flows 180

Pt. II Computer-Related Crime

9 The phenomenon of computer-related crime 207

10 Legislating for computer crime 221

11 Computer forgery and fraud 240

12 The Internet and computer pornography 249

13 Detecting and prosecuting computer crime 263

Pt. III Intellectual Property Issues

14 Intellectual property law 283

15 Key elements of the patent system 289

16 Patents and software 309

17 Copyright protection 347

18 Copyright in the information society 391

19 Protection of databases 406

20 Trade mark and domain name issues 425

21 Competition and intellectual property issues 444

Pt. IV Legal Issues of the Internet

22 Internet regulation and the rise, fall, and rise of .com 457

23 International and European initiatives in e-commerce 473

24 Cryptography, electronic signatures, and the Electronic Communications Act 2000 487

25 Contractual liability for defective software 509

26 Non-contractual liability 547

27 Defamation and the Internet 571

Index 589