Law and Internet Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780521600484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 252 str.

Sydney) Kathy Bowrey (University of New South Wales

Opis

This book is about the Internet and the technological and cultural baggage that accompanies it and affects its regulation. It considers the ways decisions about Internet technologies are made; ideas behind global trade and innovation; power of engineers and programmers; influence of multinationals; and questions about global marketing and consumer choice. Although the volume draws upon current debates from globalization, communications and socio-legal theory, it will be comprehensible to a general audience interested in issues associated with technology and innovation.

Recenzje

'This is a well-written and highly readable book. … It is a book for large groups of academics, activists, businessmen, lobbyists, politicians and technologists … Even those who have heard them before will take something new with them from reading this book.' Web Journal of Current Legal Issues

Spis treści

List of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Defining internet law; 2. Defining internet cultures; 3. Universal standards and the end of the universe: the IETF, global governance and patents; 4. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds; 5. In a world without fences who needs Gates?; 6. Telling tales: digital piracy and the law; 7. Participate/comply/resist; Notes; Bibliography; Index.