Published in July 2001, this new, updated and re-written edition of Charles Oppenheim’s classic perusal of the legal and regulatory environment is aimed at all those working in an information environment who require a background knowledge of what they may, or may not, do. First published in 1992 and regularly revised and sold ever since, Oppenheim’s classic study is aimed firmly at the non-specialist and gives readers an appreciation of the general and acceptable principles of law as they apply to information matters, in most major jurisdictions.
This new edition orients itself more firmly towards the world of networked information, and towards a less orderly world than in the past, where information and data often now arrive without clear labels as to ownership or to applicable legal frameworks.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Intellectual Property.
Chapter 3: Copyright.
Chapter 4: Domain Names.
Chapter 5: Patents.
Chapter 6: Data Protection.
Chapter 7: Liability for Information Provision.
Chapter 8: Defamation.
Chapter 9: Conflict of Laws.
Chapter 10: Issues concerning E-Commerce and Virtual Communities.
Chapter 11: Other legal aspects of Electronic Information.
280 pages. ISBN 1-873699-78-6. Published July 2001.
Charles Oppenheim is Professor of Information Science at Loughborough
University. Prior to that he was Professor of Electronic Library
Research at de Montfort University. He has held a variety of posts
in industry, academia and the electronic publishing industry,
working for luminaries such as Monty Hyams and Robert Maxwell
in his time.
His main teaching, writing and research interests are where the
law interacts with information services and products, but he is
also interested in citation studies, bibliometrics, national information
policy, the information industry, ethical issues, chemical information
handling, patent information and issues to do with the digital
library and the internet.
Charles is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Information
Scientists and a Fellow of the Library Association. He is also
a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee, the committee
that controls the strategy of electronic information provision
and IT implementation in British higher education. He is a regular
contributor to conferences and to the professional literature,
and on the editorial board of a number of professional and learned
journals.
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