Electronic Commerce And Internet Law In Canada

"The internet provides the most effective means of communication known to man and so confronts organizations with tremendous opportunities and also considerable challenges. Providing a concise and well-referenced resource to many of key issues involved on the internet, Canada's Internet Law in a Nutshell explores the inherent tensions between freedom of expression and other values such as the protection of reputation, and commercial speech. The text also examines the tensions between the ease of copying of digital files and the concerns of copyright owners. The text covers many key legal issues confronting conduct occurring on the internet including a deeper focus on issues pertaining to matters such as copyright, privacy, defamation and internet marketing, trademark and domain names, electronic commerce, the Anti-Spam legislation, and introduces key issues concerning other topics such as social media and cloud computing."--Pub. desc.

The third edition has updated its treatment of case law, statutes, secondary sources, and increased its focus on Canadian case law and policy development. It includes excerpts from new Canadian cases dealing with issues of copyright, domain names, electronic contracting, privacy, hate speech, and cybercrime. Additional commentary on Internet jurisdiction, spam, and taxation, along with international developments in Internet governance, round out the most all-encompassing and uniquely Canadian Internet law resource on the market today.