Zoellick, Bill.

CyberRegs : a business guide to Web property, privacy, and patents / Bill Zoellick. - Boston : Addison-Wesley, 2002. - xxi, 307 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk. - Addison-Wesley information technology series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: Copyright -- Creating and resisting change -- Congress asserts control -- Control put into practice -- Copyright policy and progress -- Copyright: Further reading -- Part two: Patents -- Subdividing the internet frontier -- Patent sprawl -- What is patentable? -- Claiming more: Business method patents -- Predicting the impact of internet patents -- The business of inventing -- Congress and patents -- Maximising benefit, minimizing cost -- Patents: Further reading -- Part three: Electronic signatures -- Matching the legislation to the problem -- A deeper look: Technical background on digital signatures -- The impact of the legislation -- Learning from the electronic signatures act -- Electronic signatures: Further reading -- Part four: Privacy -- A market for privacy -- The right to privacy -- Consumer concerns -- A deeper look: Technical background on cookies and web bugs -- A deeper look: Technical background on the platform for privacy preferences project -- The privacy debate in congress -- A privacy framework -- Privacy: Further reading.

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Electronic commerce--Law and legislation--United States.
Copyright and electronic data processing--United States.
Patent laws and legislation--United States.
Intellectual property--United States.
Privacy, Right of--United States.
Internet--Law and legislation--United States.

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