Cyberlaw: The Major Areas, Development, and Information Security Aspects
Dennis M. Powers, Southern Oregon University
Domain Names and Trademark Law
E-Signatures, Taxation, and Spam
Information Security Legal Liabilities
Computer Software and Hardware Manufacturer Liabilities
Security-Related Liabilities (Employee)
Hackers, Crackers, and Viruses
To What Extent Is the Victim Liable?
INTRODUCTION
As the number of Internet users, Web connections, and personal computers increased exponentially, controversies and legal problems also accelerated in cyberspace without any specific statutes or case law at first to govern the inevitable conflicts. Despite solid preexisting legal foundation, no information medium ever had such an enormous appetite to leapfrog geographic territories and laws, in turn creating intense pressures on that system.
If somebody “ripped off” another's slogan or logo in “pre-Net” California, it was possible that a business located in Chicago would never know the difference. If one person wrote a defamatory article in a local Florida newspaper about someone in Oregon, the defamed person at that time could have died before reading that particular ...
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