Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework

by Radin, Margaret Jane; Rothchild, John A.; Silverman, Gregory M.

• ISBN13: 9781587780813
• ISBN10: 158778081X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: West Group

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	ix
Table of Cases	xxxvii
Regulatory Paradigms for Electronic Commerce	1	(77)
Setting the Stage: The Legitimacy and Possibility of Government Regulation of Online Activity	1	(23)
A Pluralist Approach to Regulation of Online Conduct	24	(14)
Regulatory Reach in a Borderless World: The Problem of Controlling Activity Based Outside the Jurisdiction	38	(28)
Competition Policy and Cooperative Business Models	66	(12)
Protecting Commercial Identity Online: Trademarks	78	(83)
Traditional Trademark Infringement: The Requirement of Consumer Confusion	83	(27)
Trademark Dilution	110	(23)
Trademark Defenses Online	133	(28)
Protecting Commercial Identity Online: Domain Names	161	(113)
Traditional Trademark Law and Domain Names	163	(38)
The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act	201	(32)
Nonjudicial Dispute Resolution and ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy	233	(26)
Registering Domain Names with a Domain Name Registrar	259	(6)
Registering Domain Names as Trademarks	265	(9)
Contracting Online	274	(98)
Binding Commitment	275	(84)
The Role of Standardization in Electronic Contracting	359	(7)
The Limits of Contractual Ordering in the Online Environment	366	(6)
Authentication and Digital Signatures	372	(40)
Digital Signatures	373	(17)
The Statute of Frauds Online	390	(17)
Digital Authentication Around the World	407	(5)
Consumer Protection Online	412	(55)
Background: Overview of Consumer Protection Regulation	413	(3)
The Extent of Fraudulent Practices Online	416	(7)
Online Advertising Issues	423	(20)
Online Contracting and Its Perils: UCITA and Consumer Protection	443	(13)
Electronic Signature Statutes	456	(11)
Judicial Jurisdiction over Disputes in Internet Commerce	467	(81)
Background: Personal Jurisdiction	467	(2)
The Due Process Requirement Applied to Online Activities	469	(48)
Application of State Long-Arm Statutes to Websites	517	(14)
Jurisdiction by Contract: Forum-Selection Clauses	531	(8)
Choice of Law	539	(4)
Related Matters	543	(5)
Privacy Online	548	(81)
Background: Privacy Protection in the Online Commercial Environment	548	(10)
Fair Information Practice Principles	558	(7)
Online Technologies of Surveillance and Their Implications for Data Privacy	565	(29)
Models for Protecting Online Privacy	594	(29)
Children's Privacy: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act	623	(6)
Controlling Digital Goods: Copyright	629	(134)
A Brief Overview of the Law of Copyright	631	(11)
Copyright Infringement Online	642	(39)
Defenses to Copyright Infringement	681	(33)
Webcasting, Music Downloads and Statutory Licenses	714	(18)
A Safe Harbor for Online Service Providers	732	(31)
Controlling Information Assets: Databases	763	(36)
Databases and the Law of Copyright	764	(12)
Protection for Databases Under State Law and the Problem of Federal Copyright Preemption	776	(7)
Sui Generis Protection for Databases	783	(16)
Technological Protection of Digital Goods	799	(78)
Introduction to Trusted Systems	800	(9)
Special Protection for Technological Management Systems: Title 1 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act	809	(53)
Trusted Systems and Fair Use	862	(15)
Controlling Online Business Methods: Patent	877	(60)
Patent Basics	878	(2)
Background: The (Former) Business Method Exception	880	(2)
Software Patents: The Changing Legal Landscape	882	(2)
The Demise of the Business Method Exception	884	(21)
Examples of E-Commerce Business Method Patents	905	(16)
Patent Litigation: Amazon.com v. Barnesandnoble.com	921	(16)
Harmful Activities Online: Liability for Electronic Intrusions	937	(82)
Intrusion on Proprietary Networks: Unsolicited Commercial E-mail	937	(40)
Intruding on Proprietary Networks: Speech Directed at Employees via a Corporate Network	977	(14)
Acquiring Data from Another's Website	991	(28)
Liability of Internet Service Providers and Other Intermediaries for Online Harms	1019	(54)
Liability of Service Providers for Reputational Harm Caused by Availability of Harmful Content	1020	(42)
Liability of Intermediaries for Harm Caused by Denial of Service Attacks and Other Malicious Intrusions	1062	(11)
Alternative Resolution of Online Disputes	1073	(26)
Introduction	1073	(5)
ADR and ODR in Electronic Commerce	1078	(21)
Electronic Payment Systems	1099	(40)
Background: Our Current Monetary System and the Development of Electronic Money	1100	(10)
Commonly Used Electronic Payment Systems	1110	(5)
Emerging Electronic Payment Systems	1115	(24)
Taxation of Online Economic Activity	1139	(56)
Domestic Taxation Issues	1140	(39)
International Taxation Issues	1179	(16)
Bibliography	1195	(14)
Appendix A. Computer Networking and the Internet	1209	(5)
Appendix B. The Domain Name System	1214	(11)
Appendix C. Business Models on the Web	1225	(8)
Glossary	1233	(18)
Index	1251