The exponential growth in electronic usage of commercial transactions has led to new challenges for financial institutions. As a new field, the legal dimensions are still under development by legislators, regulators, and the courts, and rapid changes can have an impact on the way your clients do business.  The Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions can help you stay on top!  The manual:

• Lays out all the legal liability issues regarding a given topic for both attorneys and lay people alike. The comprehensive treatment of liability helps you to understand the practical effect of business you conduct on the internet.
• Provides a complete analysis of the legal treatment for each issue, with thorough research and commentary. The authors’ analysis helps you understand the many conflicts and inconsistencies among local, national, and international laws affecting electronic commercial transactions.
• Provides authoritative opinions on whether the courts, the regulators, and the parties are making the correct judgments in how they proceed. These opinions help you to identify pitfalls you can encounter in attempting to comply with relevant electronic commerce laws.

The authors are the top experts in e-commerce law. Raymond T. Nimmer was reporter for the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, and is internationally acclaimed as an expert on electronic commerce law. Holly K. Towle is banking’s top e-lawyer and daily deals with practical issues faced by financial institutions in electronic commercial transactions. Together they provide authoritative analyses of all the different issues facing those transacting e-commerce, including rights, licenses, liabilities, and compliance.

Topics discussed in-depth include:

• Cybercrime, cybersquatting, cyberpiracy, and criminal penalties
• Credit cards and credit transactions
• Privacy and data control issues in a changing legal environment
• Liability risks in dealing with third-party information
• E-Commercial intellectual property basics: copyright, DMCA, licensing, patent, and trademark law
• Property rights beyond intellectual property: the right to control and protect one’s own computer and online system
• Laws validating electronic transactions
• Online contract formation
• Linking, website, and online jurisdiction issues
• Domain names and their control
• Attribution: identifying the parties
• Whether existing laws tailored for new technologies will cover an even newer technology
• Digital signatures, electronic signatures
• Terms of service: access contracts, online site or service agreements and application service providers
• Liability for informational content
• Consumer law issues in e-commerce
• E-mails and evidence in e-commercial contexts
• Identity theft
• Structuring the analysis of tax issues in the e-commerce context

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