Information Technology Law

Part I: The Information Society; 1: The world of bits; 2: The network of networks; 3: Net neutrality; 4: Regulating the information society; Part II: Content and the Information Society; 5: Cyber-speech; 6: Social networking and antisocial conduct; 7: Defamation; Part III: Digital Content and Intellectual Property Rights; 8: Intellectual property rights and the information society; 9: Software; 10: Digital creatives and copyright law; 11: Copyright in the digital environment; 12: Copyright infringement in the digital environment; 13: Databases; 14: Branding, trade marks and domain names; 15: Brand identities, search engines, and secondary ma rkets; Part IV: E-Commerce; 16: Electronic contracts; 17: Electronic payments and cryptocurrency; 18: Consumer protection; Part V: Criminal Activity in the Information Society; 19: Computer misuse; 20: Obscenity in the information society; 21: Crime and law enforcement in the information society; Part VI: Data Privacy; 22: Data protection: the legal framework; 23: Data protection: rights and obligations; 24: The international trade in personal data; 25: State surveillance and data retention; Online only chapters; 26: Digital Ownership; 27: The digital public sphere; 28: Virtual environments; 29: The future for IT law

Andrew Murray is a Professor of Law at London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a member of the Society of Computers and Law, the Higher Education Academy, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He was previously an Executive Member of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA) and is a visiting professor at the Computer/Law Institute, VU Amsterdam and was in Spring 2015 and Spring 2017 a visiting Professor at the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po).