Focuses on the regulatory framework of the internet and e-commerce. It considers how the law has developed in the context of rapid technological chanage and analyses how it is being applied to define rights and obligations in relation tot he online infrastructure, content and practices. The book offers extensive, detailed and currernt analysis of numerous key areas of internet and e-commerce law which have undergone significant change in recent years: copyright in digital content, patents for software and e-business methods, domain names, and trade marks, electronic contracting, privacy, cybercrime, taxation of internet businesses, liability of internet intermediaries and regulation of online content.