The internet provides the most effective means of communication known to man and so confronts organizations with tremendous opportunities and also considerable challenges.

Providing a concise and well-referenced resource to many of the key issues involved on the internet, Canada's Internet Law in a Nutshell explores the inherent tensions between freedom of expression and other values such as the protection of reputation and commercial speech. The text also examines the tensions between the ease of copying digital files and the concerns of copyright owners.

The text covers many key legal issues confronting the conduct occurring on the internet including a deeper focus on issues pertaining to matters such as copyright, privacy, defamation and internet marketing, trademark and domain names, electronic commerce, the Anti-Spam legislation, and introduces key issues concerning other topics such as social media and cloud computing.

What’s inside:

What is the internet
Regulation of the internet
Free speech balanced against other values
Limits on copyright
Copyright law and the internet
Trade-marks and the internet
Confidential information and the internet
Patents and the internet
Electronic commerce
Anti-Spam legislation
Social Media, and more

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Canada's Internet Law in a Nutshell

Canada's Internet Law in a Nutshell