LA 1 : Cyber Law

Cyber law describes the legal issues related to use of inter-networked information technology. It is less a distinct field of law in the way that property or contract are, as it is a domain covering many areas of law and regulation. Some leading topics include intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction.

There are four types of Intellectual Property protection. They are patents for invention, trademarks for brand identity, designs for product appearance and copyright for material. Intellectual property laws are needed:

• to establish & safeguard the intellectual property which refers to works created by inventors, authors and artists.
• as businesses today continue to expand globally

Privacy can be protected by privacy law and utilities software.

Issues of jurisdiction have quickly come to the fore in the era of the Internet. The Internet does not tend to make geographical and jurisdictional boundaries clear, but Internet users remain in physical jurisdictions and are subject to laws independent of their presence on the Internet.As such, a single transaction may involve the laws of at least three jurisdictions:

1) the laws of the state/nation in which the user resides.

2) the laws of the state/nation that apply where the server hosting the transaction is located.

3) the laws of the state/nation which apply to the person or business with whom the transaction takes place.

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