World Cyberspace Law

Price: $350.00 1100 pages. 1 Looseleaf Volume. Appendices. Index. Updated annually or when needed.

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About the Book:
Lawyers that practice business, intellectual property, telecommunications, antitrust, and international law are confronting new and unfamiliar issues arising from activities in cyberspace. World Cyberspace Law is designed to assist lawyers in transactions and advocacy on behalf of clients engaged in electronic commerce and enterprises that seek greater predictability in their provision of services that depend upon computers, code, content, and conduit. This loose-leaf deskbook explains the main U.S. cases and statutes on cyberlaw, along with key sources of regional and international law. The separate chapters on commerce, code, and conduit bring U.S. laws into heightened relief by contrasting the U.S. approach (e.g. on shrinkwrap licenses, copyrights, domain names, Internet Service Provider immunity, peering, or consumer privacy) with salient sources of foreign law through comparative analysis. It includes insights into German electronic signature law, Japanese copyright law, and other national and regional legislation. The chapters on defamation, privacy, content, trademarks and jurisdiction help counsel meet the clients' needs more effectively both before and during dispute resolution. The annotated analysis also carefully covers conflicts of law rules, as well as judicial precedents on concurrent prescriptive jurisdiction and forum selection.

This legal guidebook analyzes legal sources from the U.S., the European Union, and the Asian nations. Other chapters address the barriers to harmonization of European Union law and NAFTA rules into international norms.

The author draws clear conclusions and offers a prognosis that identifies both the uses and limitations of current and proposed WTO standards, WIPO treaties, and arbitral conventions for disputes that concern conduct, interests, activities, and rights over the Internet. The legal analysis covers treaties, related customary law, the commentaries of leading authorities, and the substantive laws of national regimes, viewed through a lens of private international law.

Whether your clients engage in sales over the Internet, provide web-hosting, offer Internet services, manage intellectual property rights, or simply compete with or rely upon those who do, this new book and its supplements comprise an invaluable resource that presents a vital framework to explain how to best anticipate local cyberspace law issues and how to successfully resolve transnational disputes.

About the Author:
Steven M. Hoffer is an Attorney practicing law in California. Prior to going into private practice, Mr. Hoffer was Senior Regulatory Attorney for: MCI Telecommunications Corporation in Washington, D.C and Legal Advisor to the USAID where he was involved with setting up technology infrastructure for ten African nations. He has served as External Affairs Counsel to the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia and has been Visiting Professor of International Law at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA and Senior Lecturer in European Union Law at Palacky University in the Czech Republic. He earned a LL.M. in comparative and international law, Magna Cum Laude, from the Virje Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.