"Law for Computing Students" by Geoffrey Sampson (Repost)

This book is about the L of “LSEPI” – legal, social, ethical, and professional issues.

One of the central things which computing students need to understand about law is how unclear it often is.

Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
1.1 The purpose of this book
1.2 Geographical perspective
1.3 Further reading
2. The nature of English law
2.1 Different jurisdictions
2.2 Is IT law special?
2.3 The nature of the adversaries
2.4 Sources of law
2.5 Bases of legal authority
3. Faulty supplies
3.1 Breach of contract v. tort
3.2 IT contracts
3.3 Letters of intent
3.4 Interpretation of contracts
3.6 Torts
4. Intellectual property
4.1 The growing importance of intangible assets
4.2 Copyright and patent
4.3 Do we need intellectual-property laws?
4.4 Copyright for software
4.5 Two software-copyright cases
4.6 Databases
4.7 The focus shifts from copyright to patent
4.8 The nature of patent law
4.9 Is software patentable?
4.10 Some software-patent cases
4.11 The American position
4.12 An unstable situation
5. Law and rapid technical change: a case study
5.1 Film versus video
5.2 The Attorney General seeks a ruling
5.3 Pornography meets the internet
5.4 Are downloads publications?
5.5 Censoring videos
5.6 The diffi culty of amending the law
5.7 R. v. Fellows and Arnold
5.8 Allowing downloads is “showing”\
5.9 What is a copy of a photograph?
5.10 Uncertainties remain
5.11 The wider implications
6. Personal data rights
6.1 Data protection and freedom of information
6.2 The Freedom of Information Act
6.3 Limiting the burden
6.4 Implications for the private sector
6.5 Government recalcitrance
6.6 Attitudes to privacy
6.7 Is there a right to privacy in Britain?
6.8 The history of data protection
6.9 The Data Protection Act in outline
6.10 The Bodil Lindqvist case
6.11 The Data Protection Act in more detail
6.12 Is the law already outdated?
7. Web law
7.1 The internet and contract
7.2 Ownership of domain names
7.3 Web 2.0 and defamation
8. Regulatory compliance
8.1 Sarbanes–Oxley and after
8.2 Accessibility
8.3 E-discovery
8.4 Conclusion
Endnotes

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