Information and Communications Technology Law in Ireland will be an essential companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students who wish to develop their understanding of this diverse area of study. This book is designed to be accessible, as well as practical. Complex legal and technical material is explained in a logical order to aid understanding. The book is divided into thematic sections, with the first section contextualising the study of ICT and the law. Subsequent sections consider the private law implications of ICT (including intellectual property and online contracts); public law issues related to ICT (privacy, free speech and computer crime), and the applications of ICT in legal practice. [Subject: ICT & the Law, Irish Law, Property Law, Criminal Law, Private Law]

Communication and Music in Social Interaction gives readers an accessible entry point into music as a form of communication and its impact on daily life. Organized into four sections, Section 1 introduces key ideas from the fields of communication and music and provides a guide to music terminology. Section 2 explores how the structural features of music convey hidden messages, the emotional and physical effects of music, and the role of music in social relationships and the formation of group identities. In Section 3 readers learn how music relates to other forms of communication including nonverbal, language, and forms of new technology. Section 4 is devoted to specific models connecting music and communication. Communication and Music in Social Interaction features numerous musical examples that illustrate specific points, as well as links to online videos and recordings. Dedicated to giving communication students, educators, and researchers insight into an often overlooked communicative form, Communication and Music in Social Interaction can be used in communication studies courses, as well as courses in ethnomusicology and the psychology of music.

Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological change, displaying both conceptual path-dependence as well as what is called non-legislative developments in the law. The overall analysis draws from conceptual studies of "property" in intellectual property. By using Karl Renner's account of property, Larsson demonstrates how the property regime of copyright is the projection of an older regime of control onto a new set of digital social relations. Further, through an analysis of the concept of "copy" in copyright as well as the metaphorical battle of defining the BitTorrent site "The Pirate Bay" in the Swedish court case with its founders, Larsson shows the historical and embodied dependence of digital phenomena in law, and thereby how normative aspects of the source concept also stains the target domain. The book also draws from empirical studies on file sharing and historical expressions of the conceptualisation of law, revealing both the cultural bias of both file sharing and law. Also law is thereby shown to be largely depending on metaphors and embodiment to be reified and understood. The contribution is relevant for the conceptual and regulatory struggles of a multitude of contemporary socio-digital phenomena in addition to copyright and file sharing, including big data and the oft-praised "openness" of digital innovation.

Is social media changing who we are? We assume social media is only a tool for our modern day communications and interactions, but is it quietly changing our identities and how we see the world and one another? Our current debate about the human behaviors behind social media misses the important effects these social networking technologies are having on our sense of shared morality and rationality. There has been much concern about the loss of privacy and anonymity in the Information Age, but little attention has been paid to the consequences and effects of social media and the behavior they engender on the Internet. In order to understand how social media influences our morality, Lisa S. Nelson suggests a new methodological approach to social media and its effect on society. Instead of beginning with the assumption that we control our use of social media, this book considers how the phenomenological effects of social media influences our actions, decisions, and, ultimately, who we are and who we become. This important study will inform a new direction in policy and legal regulation for these increasingly important technologies.

The book International Telecommunicationas Law is about growing significance telecommunications in the life of common man across the globe. This book provides an in-depth analysis of cyber laws in multiple jurisdictions along with the registration and dispute resolution mechanism of domain names. The issue of cyber crimes and cyber security have been discussed in detail. The author of this book is an advocate in Delhi High Court, INDIA

This document supersedes NIST 500-172, Computer Security Training Guidelines, published in 1989. The new document supports the Computer Security Act (Public Law 100-235) and OMB Circular A-130 Appendix III requirements that NIST develop and issue computer security training guidance. This publication presents a new conceptual framework for providing information technology (IT) security training. This framework includes the IT security training requirements appropriate for today's distributed computing environment and provides flexibility for extension to accommodate future technologies and the related risk management decisions.

This exceptional book is ideal for industry professionals, regulators and scholars in the domain of European regulatory governance. Amongst its many resources and informative features is a Regulatory Compliance Matrix with more than 1000 entries - a simplified but comprehensive guide to the laws, regulations, standards, and recommendations applicable to compliance programmes. What practitioners find inside will empower them to save thousands of euros, man-hours, and consultancy interventions. It also usefully guides regulators and scholars in understanding the complexities of European regulation and the important role industry plays. Inside, the reader will find the following key resources: INDUSTRY GOVERNANCE THEORY: a new take on regulatory governance that gives insight into industry's pro-active role and predominating influence in shaping European public policy. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE MATRIX: a synopsis of the principal domains of regulation, setting forth legal norms, ancillary standards and guidelines. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE MATURITY MODEL: part of a novel toolkit for organisations to design and manage their compliance programmes more effectively.P OLICY INFLUENCE-TIMING MODEL: a dynamic model of the public policy cycle empowering organisations to influence the outcomes of upcoming regulatory initiatives. STAKEHOLDER ACTION MATRIX: a map of stakeholders' engagement at all levels of governance, exhibiting their types and the channels through which they make the deepest impact on regulatory decisions. STAKEHOLDER DIRECTORY: a definitive compendium of potential allies and rivals who exercise the most influence over regulatory processes. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH METHODS: a background in survey techniques, participant observation, model evaluation, case studies, inferential logic, triangulation, and more. OTHER RESOURCES: including a comprehensive review of policy papers on European governance and ICT regulation put out by the European Commission, and a multidimensional Roadmap to the pan-European eComunications Framework Review.

This leading work provides a unique perspective on EU competition law, authored by current and former members of DG Competition, and giving insider knowledge into policies and their application.
Fully updated in this third edition, the work includes new material on industries of growing importance in the competition field including pharmaceuticals and High Tech. A new chapter on pharmaceuticals and health care gives analysis of the pharmaceuticals sector enquiry report, the ECJ judgment in GSK, the Servier investigation, and various mergers. Coverage of the developing High Tech industry is covered in an expanded chapter on Communications.
Other updating includes full coverage of the latest legislation, case law and guidance, giving competition lawyers a comprehensive commentary on recent developments. Discussion of key legislative developments looks at the R&D and Specialization Block Exemption Regulations, the revised Verticals Block Exemption Regulation, and the Technology Transfer Block Exemption. Since the last edition of Faull and Nikpay, there has been a wealth of new guidance published which is fully covered in the third edition including Guidance on Hearing Officer procedures, Commission guidance on enforcement priorities for exclusionary conduct, non-horizontal mergers guidelines, Horizontal agreements guidelines, Verticals guidelines, and Commission Guidelines on Technology Transfer. Also, key recent cases covered in the new edition include Telefonica, Microsoft, Intel, Rambus, RWE, and GdF.

This book examines one of the greatest social and legal concerns of the modern age: social networking and the internet. The growing law and issues of, and created by, social networking and related websites involve real and diverse concerns. The concerns face the website operators, users, parents, schools, universities, employers, organisations, outsource organisations, the police, lawyers, courts, rights organisations and policymakers.Social networking is wonderful, yet staggering - in a short space of time, user populations greater than the populations of nation states have joined social networks. One social networking website reports to have amassed over 1 billion regular users. Yet, the legal issues (and others) involved with social networking and related websites are getting as many media headlines as the technologies themselves. Some of these are similar to established legal issues, however, with increasing frequency, the issues are entirely new. In addition, the scale of the issues are at a level unprecedented in collective memory. If that was not enough, the pace of the legal issues which must be considered and, more importantly, the pace and urgency with which they must be dealt with, add significant temporal pressures. This timely and appropriate book outlines the new law and issues relating to social networking. It offers a strong international comparative element and examines various legal jurisdictions. The growing law and issues of, and created by, social networking and related websites involve real and diverse concerns for policy. To victims, lawyers, parents, society, and policy makers, social networking in its various forms can be considered one of the most pressing legal issue today, with more issues and concerns than occur in any other field of contemporary law. Table of Contents include: Internet and Technology * Privacy and Data Protection * Social Networking Policies * Advertising and Marketing * Beacon Settlement * Europe against Facebook * Facebook Audit * Laws 'Re-Phormed'? * Data Breaches * Tagging * Evidential Issues * Cloud Computing * Employees * Educational Institutions * Tracking the Trackers * Personal Relations * Social Networking after Death * Profiles in Purgatory * A Critical Approach to the Right to Be Forgotten * Children and Social Networking * Social Networking and Internet Access * Peer to Peer and Privacy * Social Networking and Sports * Social Networking and the Courts * Privacy by Design * Data Protection Audits * The Future.

Internet gaming sparks controversy from corporate board rooms to legislative hallways. Unlike traditional casinos, the Internet permits people to engage in gaming activities from virtually anywhere over computers and mobile devices. Governments and policy makers looking at this activity struggle with such questions as whether regulation can assure that Internet gaming can be restricted to adults, the games offered are fair and honest, and players will be paid if they win. This book is a timely collection of eleven chapters discussing key considerations and model approaches to internet gaming regulation and outlining the important questions and emerging answers to regulating gaming activity outside of land-based casinos. Some of the regulatory insights are taken from lessons learned in the land-based casino industry and others from the relatively newer experiences of international internet gaming providers. Contributors are among the world's leading experts on Internet gaming. They focus on structural concerns including record-keeping, managing different taxing regimes, maintaining effective controls, protecting customer funds, and preventing money laundering, as well as on policy concerns ensuring responsible play, the detection of fraud, reliable age verification, and the enforcement of gaming laws and norms across jurisdictions. Internet gaming is an emerging field, especially in the U.S., and the contributors to this book provide regulatory examples and lessons that will be helpful to lawyers, policy makers, gaming operators and others interested in this burgeoning industry. Chapters include: 1 Licensing by Anthony Cabot 2 Accounting, Audits, and Recordkeeping by Peter J. Kulick 3 Taxation of Regulated Internet Gambling by Sanford I. Millar 4 Technical Compliance by Richard Williamson 5 The Protection Of Customer Funds by Nick Nocton 6 Financial Transactions and Money Laundering by Stuart Hoegner 7 Internet Gambling Advertising Best Practices by Lawrence G. Walters 8 Responsible Gaming by Frank Catania, Sr., Gary Ehrlich, and Antonia Cowan 9 Ensuring Internet Gaming that is Free from Fraud and Cheating by Alan Littler 10 Age Verification by J. Blair Richardson 11 Proposal for an International Convention on Online Gambling by Marketa Trimble The book also includes an introductory editors' note, an index, and a table of cases.