Internet Governance by Contract

ISBN-13: 9780199687343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 192 str.

Lee Bygrave

Opis

This book presents a transnational and transsystemic perspective on the role of contract in Internet Governance, and considers parameters for assessing the utility and legitimacy of contracts in this context.
Bygrave presents definitions and parameters of internet governance and the role of contract alongside examples of how these are used in the ever-changing internet world. He examines topical and well-known mediums such as Facebook in relation to their policies and online parameters.
Taking into account legal developments across jurisdictions and within both common law and civil law systems, Bygrave explores the idea of the contract as the principal means of governing the virtual world.

Recenzje

This remarkably clear, careful, and detailed book provides a world-class analysis of the web of contracts which form the musculoskeletal system of the Internet. Among this books virtues is a state-of-the-art account of the agreements that constitute and surround ICANNessential reading for those who wish to understand and perhaps enforce them. More importantly, while drawing on the law of many countries this book shows us how Internet-related private and public law intermingle to shape Internet governance as we know it.

O autorze

Dr Lee Andrew Bygrave is Professor in the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law within the Department of Private Law at the University of Oslo. He has extensive experience advising on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) regulatory policy for many institutions, including the EU Commission and the UK House of Lords Constitution Committee. He has published extensively within the field of privacy/data protection law and is also the author of Data Privacy Law (OUP, 2014).