E-commerce law

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; PART 1: INTRODUCTION; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 WHAT IS E-COMMERCE?; 1.1.1 The medium; 1.1.2 The transactions; 1.2 SOME FEATURES OF THE INTERNET AND THE WWW; 1.2.1 Connecting computers together; 1.2.2 The World Wide Web (WWW); 1.3 E-COMMERCE AND THE LAW; 1.3.1 Effect of the WWW on B2B commerce; 1.3.2 Effect of the WWW on B2C commerce; 1.3.3 The WWW and the law; 1.4 THE FUTURE OF E-COMMERCE?; PART 2: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND RELATED ISSUES; 2 ESTABLISHING A WEB PRESENCE. 2.1 INTERNET ADDRESSES AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF DISPUTES2.1.1 Domain names; 2.1.2 Types of domain name dispute; 2.1.3 The domain name allocation system; 2.1.4 Relationships between the parties; 2.2 DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE RESOLUTION; 2.2.1 Relationship between dispute resolution policy and court action; 2.2.2 Pros and cons of dispute resolution; 2.2.3 ICANN's policy; 2.2.4 Nominet's policy; 3 TRADE MARKS AND PASSING OFF; 3.1 INTRODUCTION TO TRADE MARKS AND PASSING OFF; 3.2 THE RELEVANT TRADE MARK LEGISLATION IN OUTLINE; 3.3 DOMAIN NAMES AND TRADE MARKS; 3.4 DOMAIN NAMES AND SECTION 10(1). 3.4.1 What is an identical mark?3.4.2 What are identical goods or services?; 3.4.3 Globalisation issues; 3.5 DOMAIN NAMES AND SECTION 10(2); 3.5.1 Identical names and similar goods or services; 3.5.2 The test; 3.5.3 Low risk of confusion in Internet cases; 3.6 DOMAIN NAMES AND SECTION 10(3); 3.6.1 No need for confusion; 3.6.2 Can apply where there is similarity as well; 3.6.3 Scope of s 10(3); 3.7 DOMAIN NAMES AND PASSING OFF; 3.7.1 Definition of passing off; 3.7.2 Not set in stone; 3.7.3 Injunctions; 3.7.4 Passing off in the domain name context. 3.8 WHERE NO CAUSE OF ACTION, NO REASON TO INTERFERE WITH FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVED3.9 METATAGS AND SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION; 3.9.1 Are these trade mark infringements at all?; 3.9.2 If use, is it a s 10 infringement?; 3.10 DEFENCES; 4 COPYRIGHT ISSUES; 4.1 COPYRIGHT AND THE INTERNET; 4.2 HOW COPYRIGHT WORKS IN OUTLINE; 4.2.1 What is the property right protected?; 4.2.2 Extent of the property right; 4.2.3 How is the property right infringed?; 4.2.4 Protection of databases; 4.3 PRIMARY LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF COPYRIGHT; 4.3.1 Copying necessary for the efficient functioning of the WWW. 4.3.2 Other copying4.4 INCORPORATION OF MATERIAL FROM ELSEWHERE, DEEP LINKING AND SECONDARY LIABILITY; 4.4.1 Relevance of secondary liability; 4.4.2 Secondary liability in genera; 4.4.3 Deep linking; 4.4.4 Framing; 4.4.5 Music distribution issues; 4.4.6 Transmitting; 4.5 EC COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE; 4.5.1 Circumvention of technological measures; 4.5.2 Rights management; PART 3: ENCRYPTION; 5 ENCRYPTION, ELECTRONIC AND DIGITAL SIGNATURES IN PRINCIPLE; 5.1 WHY ENCRYPTION?; 5.2 A TERMINOLOGICAL NOTE; 5.3 LEGAL ISSUES RELATING TO ENCRYPTION (OUTLINE) ; 5.4 PRINCIPLES OF ENCRYPTION