Contents

• Introduction
• Intellectual Property
  • Copyright and Associated Rights
    • Table 1: What type of works may be protected ?
    • Who owns the rights ?
    • Table 2: Ownership of Rights in a Work created under the CDPA 1988 regime
    • How long do the rights last ?
    • Directive 93/98/EEC and the Duration of Copyright and Rights in Performances Regulations 1995
    • Table 3: The period of protection extended to various types of works
    • The implications for electronic publishers.
  • Trademarks
  • Patent
• Defamation
  • The Draft Libel Bill
    • Who is an Author, Editor or Publisher ?
  • Essentials of Libel
  • National and International Caselaw
• Criminal Liability
  • Pornography
  • Computer Misuse
  • Racial Hatred
  • Contempt of Court
• Data Protection
  • A brief overview of the Data Protection Act 1984
    • What is personal data ?
    • Table 4:Data which is exempt from the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1984
    • What obligations does the Act impose ?
    • Table 5: The Eight Data Protection Principles
    • What rights does the Act give to individuals
  • Personal Data on Webservers
• Encryption
• International Issues
• Codes of Practice and Guidelines
  • Introduction
  • Writing a code of practice.
    • Considerations when creating a Code of Practice
    • Institutional Guidelines for using the World Wide Web.
  • Draft Institutional Code of Practice
  • Draft Institutional Guidelines for Personal Webpages
  • Draft Campus Wide Information Server (CWIS) /Official Institutional Webserver Committee Guidelines.
• Appendices
  • Telecommunications Act 1984 s42-43
  • Interception of Communications Act 1985 s1-2
  • Computer Misuse Act 1990 s1-6, 8-10,12,15,17
  • Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 s84-86, s161-162
  • Duration of Copyright and Rights in Performances Regulations 1995 s23-25
  • Opinion on the terms of the Netscape User Licence
• Select Bibliography and Further Reading

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