Handbook of Social Media and the Law

ISBN-13: 9780415745482 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 444 str.

Laura Scaife

Opis

The Social Media Handbook explains how the existing laws of defamation and communications based offences apply to social media communications and explores the tactical considerations both claimants and defendants must be aware of when dealing with cases involving social media. Social media covers a number of different platforms that enable a user to interact and share information such as comments, photographs, videos and audio, publically or privately with other users online. The most well-known include LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook. While there are existing works covering the law of defamation and communications based offences, this is the first book to cover the specific issues highlighted by social media. This practical guide offers practitioners innovative ways to handle claims using the existing law and working within the rules of the platform providers themselves. The author also explores the risks which social media may present in a manner which allows in house counsel and communications professionals determine what procedures, policies, specifications and standards must be adopted in organisations internal governance and explains how to build regulatory frameworks to achieve compliance. This book will be of great use to legal practitioners specialising in communications or internet law, in house counsel, communications professionals, journalists, students of communications law and anyone who uses social media in their work.

Spis treści

Part 1: Background  Chapter 1: Introduction To Social Media And The Law  Chapter 2: Human Rights  Part 2: Civil Claims  Chapter 3: Defamation  Part 3: Criminal Liability  Part 3-1: Communications-Based Offences  Chapter 4.  Communications Act 2003  Chapter 5: Malicious Communications Act 1988  Chapter 6: Serious Crime Act 2007  Chapter 7: Crime And Disorder Act 1998  Chapter 8: Public Order Act 1986  Chapter 9: Protection From Harassment Act 1997  Chapter 10: Computer Misuse Act 1990  Part 3-2: Criminal Law: Procedure  Chapter 11: Contempt Of Court Act 1981  Chapter 12: Evidence And Procedure  Part 4: Commercial Law  Chapter 13: Data Protection And Privacy  Chapter 14: Trading And Advertising Standards  Chapter 15: FCA Regulated Bodies  Chapter 16: Insurance

O autorze

Laura Scaife is an Associate at Addleshaw Goddard and has extensively published on matters concerning compliance with e-commerce issues arising out of the Office of Fair Trading and Advertising Standard Agency guidelines as well as online revenue generation, defamation, electronic communications based offences, effective dispute settlement, business crisis management and reputational management.