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.