Online Law tackles what the author sees as the five largest issues in the digital realm: rights in electronic information, information security, online transactions, regulating content, and regulating conduct. 

Setting up a business on the Net often seems simpler than setting up more traditional businesses. But from a legal point of view, you still face the same risks--and sometimes even more risks. Is there a chance that the picture you posted on your Web site will get you sued for copyright infringement? 

This book was written for content providers-writers, artists, designers, academics, software developers, and researchers-and it gives them all the information they need to protect, manage, and profit from their intellectual property (IP). Written by one of North America's foremost intellectual property authorities, this book shows you how to benefit from understanding the currency of the 21st Century-and control it for big profits

Everyone knows that cyberspace is a wild frontier that can't be regulated, right? Everyone is wrong, and that's why we should all read Harvard Law prof (and famous Microsoft trial expert) Lawrence Lessig's eye-opening, jaw-dropping book Code, the best guide yet to the future that's heading our way like a frictionless freight train. For such an analytical book, it's also anecdote-studded and utterly fun to read.

Garfinkel's thoroughly researched and example-rich text explores the history of identification procedures; the computerization of ID systems; how and where data is collected, tracked, and stored; and the laws that protect privacy. He also explains who owns, manipulates, ensures the safety of, and manages the vast amount of data that makes up our collective human infrastructure. 

"Sometimes when we face change, we feel conflicting forces driving us forward and pulling us back. This place of tension and confusion can be called an "edge." The "Internet edge" is our collective struggle to change as the world becomes more connected."--