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Description
The text is specially designed for courses in Internet or Cyberlaw, E-Commerce or Data Privacy Law.
An accurate, analytic and informative text on an emerging legal topic. Rodney D. Ryder is a pioneer in the field of internet and communications law in India. He has designed some of the first courses in this subject for the National Law School of India University [NLSIU], Bangalore and NALSAR, Hyderabad, internet Law and Policy was written out of the necessity for a course book as well as a passion for the field. This book was created to offer a concise, current, and practical resource for understanding the legal environment of the Internet and electronic transactions.
The author belongs to that select group of advocates who, as consultants to major national and international business concerns, have active experience of problems connected to the use of the internet as a critical tool of commerce and trade. The text is an authoritative survey of the existing and developing law relating to the internet, which is an indispensable tool, as well as, a vehicle for commerce, industry and trade today. In clearly and logically written chapters the author has covered a large number of inter-connected issues, including the creation of online agreements, legal risks involved in online businesses, data-protection and internet banking, insurance, economics of the internet, cyber fraud, and defamation. The book includes analyses of relevant international and Indian cases. It has a detailed and extremely useful glossary.
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Contents
Chapter 1. Law and Policy in 'Indian' Cyber-Space: A Primer on the Indian
Information Technology Act, 2000
Chapter 2. The Architecture of the Internet
Chapter 3. Jurisdiction in Cyberspace
Chapter 4. Web Transactions
Chapter 5. Designing On-Line Agreements: Contractual Closure and Indian
Contract Law
Chapter 6. The Legal Challenges to Internet Banking
Chapter 7. Consumer Confidence, Data Protection and E-Commerce
Chapter 8. Cybercrime: Concepts and Legal Theory
Chapter 9. A Web Of Deceit? Analysing the Challenges and Legal Solutions to
Cyber Fraud
Chapter 10. Defamation and the Internet: Analysing Risks and Liabilities under
Indian Law
Chapter 11. Intellectual Property, the Internet and Electronic Commerce: The Role
of the Internet in the Development, Management and Commercialisation
of Intellectual Property
Chapter 12. Managing Legal Risks When Promoting a Business Online
Chapter 13. Advising Newcomers - From Zero to IPO
Chapter 14. Protection of Personal Data and Privacy: A Primer on the Indian
Perspective
Chapter 15. Web Sites and Hosting On the Web: An Analysis of Issues under
Indian Law
Chapter 16. E-Business Regulation: Notes on Compliance Issues in the
"Borderless Economy"
Chapter 17. Insurance and the Internet
Chapter 18. E-Business Models: An Analysis of Legal Aspects of B2B and B2C
Methods
Chapter 19. The Economics of the Internet: Understanding Business and
Distribution Networks
Chapter 20. Internet Law and Policy: An Epilogue "Converging" Telegraph, Cable
Broadcasting, Satellite and the Internet
Chapter 21. Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Telecommunications in India: A
Historical Introduction to the Development of Telecommunications Law
in India
Chapter 22. Glossary of Internet and E-Commerce Related Terms
Appendices
Appendix 1 - Amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000
Appendix 2 - Cyber Laws - Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix 3 - Data Protection Bill [2006]
Appendix 4 - RBI Internet Banking Report [DBOD. COMP.BC. No. 130/07.03.23/2000-01, June 14, 2001]
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Author Details
Rodney D Ryder, partner and Head, Technology Law Practice, Fox Mandal Little; legal Advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Information technology, Government of India, Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Management [Lucknow], National Law School of India University [Bangalore], Nalsar [Hyderabad], National Law University [Jodhpur]
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