Contemporary Business and E-Commerce Law: The Legal, Global, Digital and Ethical Environment (4th Edition) [Hardcover]

Henry R. Cheeseman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 013034852X | ISBN-13: 978-0130348524 | Publication Date: June 19, 2002 | Edition: 4

Geared for a one or two term courses in Business Law. This is the most modern business law and legal environment text available. Contemporary Business and E-Commerce Law, 4/e gives professors and students the most extensive and cutting edge coverage of the emerging area of information technology and e-commerce law. This text showcases over 40 new U.S. Supreme Court Cases that have been decided during the past three years, plus over 120 traditional cases giving students/instructors balanced case presentation. Students continually comment on Henry Cheeseman's excellent and accessible writing style.

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From the Publisher

Contemporary Business Law, 2/e is an important part of the legal studies strategy for Prentice Hall. Contemporary Business Law, 2/e covers private and regulatory legal studies topics and employs BRIEF cases through the chapters. The book continues the high integration of business issues via international, ethical and contemporary features placed liberally throughout the book. New pedagogy in this edition includes a Business Checklist in each chapter that connects the legal principle to the business world for the student. The text is enlivened by the use of marginal material that includes definitions, quotes and notes to the student. Beautiful four color design. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

This new edition of Cheeseman's Contemporary Business and E-Commerce Law: Legal, Global, Digital, and Ethical Environment recognizes the revolution that the Internet and electronic commerce has brought to business and society throughout the United States and the world. The courts have interpreted and adapted existing laws to apply to e-commerce, while state legislatures and Congress have enacted new statutes to regulate the digital economy.

The fourth edition of Cheeseman's Contemporary Business and E-Commerce Law: Legal, Global, Digital, and Ethical Environment incorporates e-commerce and Internet law throughout the book. First, there is a new Unit III "E-Commerce and Information Technology" that has two chapters dealing exclusively with legal and business-Issues related to the new electronic commerce. These chapters are:

Chapter 14: Intellectual Property and Internet Law

Chapter 15: Electronic Commerce and Information Technology Licensing

Also, there are more than 50 new "E-Commerce & Information Technology" boxes that feature special laws and cases related to the Internet and Web-based commerce that are strategically located throughout the book. Some of these special featured boxes are:

• The Federal Electronic Signatures Act
• Broad Free-Speech Rights Granted in Cyberspace
• Obtaining Personal Jurisdiction in Cyberspace
• Napster Unplugged by the Court
• Federal Law Helps Victims of Identity Fraud
• The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)
• The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA)
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act
• Cyber Business Plans Are Patentable
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Anticybersquatting Act Passed by Congress

For more detailed coverage and specific examples, please turn to the inside front cover of the text.

Cheeseman's Contemporary Business and E- Commerce Law: Legal, Global, Digital, and Ethical Environment, Fourth Edition, has the most comprehensive coverage of the expanding area of intellectual property law and the new and exciting areas of domain names, electronic commerce, and Internet law. Please take a look at Chapters 14 and 15 and the extensive e-commerce and Internet law materials in this exciting revision.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1088 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4 edition (June 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013034852X
• ISBN-13: 978-0130348524
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,478,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book of Business Law, August 30, 2000

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This review is from: Contemporary Business Law (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

I bought this book a week ago. I am a foreign-educated lawyer and I have decided to compare Business Law of my country with Business Law in USA (learned at the US colleges and universities). I was pleasently suprised and also very satisfied with this buy. I appreciate very much the complete coverage of business law topics - especially integration of ethics, social responsibility, economics, historic issues into the presentation of business law topics as well as international topics. The book is written using clear language without problems of understanding as well as for non-native English readers. It was a perfect idea to include TOTALAW CD-ROM which provides access to 30 updated acts and statutes. I appreciate it. I would say the book worth its price and I highly recommend it to everybody who is in any connection with business law. I thank the author for unbelievable excellent work on this third edition of Contemporary business law book.

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This review is from: Contemporary Business Law (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

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1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars slow delivery, broken and dirty book!, June 13, 2003

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This review is from: Contemporary Business and E-Commerce Law: The Legal, Global, Digital and Ethical Environment (4th Edition) (Hardcover)

The seller sold me a broken and dirty book which was claimed as a new one through a very slow shipping method.