(BQ) Part 2 book “Legal environment of business” has contents: Digital law and e-commerce, corporations and corporate governance, consumer protection, environmental protection, accountants’ duties and liability, real property and land use regulation, and other contents. | 11 CHAPTER Digital Law and E-Commerce DIGITAL LAW AND E-COMMERCE The development of the Internet and electronic commerce has required courts to apply existing law to online commerce transactions and e-contracts, and spurred the . Congress and state legislatures to enact new laws that govern the formation and enforcement of e-contracts. Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Describe the laws that apply to e-mail contracts, e-commerce, and Web contracts. 2. Describe e-licensing and software law. 3. Describe the provisions of the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN Act). 4. Describe laws that protect privacy in cyberspace. 5. Define Internet domain names and describe how domain names are registered and protected. Chapter Outline Introduction to Digital Law and E-Commerce The Internet E-Mail Contracts DIGITAL LAW • Regulation of E-Mail Spam CASE • Facebook, Inc. v. Porembski E-Commerce and Web Contracts CASE • Hubbert v. Dell Corporation DIGITAL LAW • E-SIGN Act: Statute of Frauds and Electronic Contracts DIGITAL LAW • E-SIGN Act: E-Signatures and Electronic Contracts E-Licensing of Software and Information Rights DIGITAL LAW • Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) Privacy in Cyberspace Domain Names DIGITAL LAW • New Top-Level Domain Names DIGITAL LAW • Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act CASE • New York Yankees Partnership d/b/a The New York Yankees Baseball Club GLOBAL LAW • The Internet in Foreign Countries “ CHAPTER 11 Digital Law and E-Commerce 247 Through the use of chat rooms, any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox. Through the use of Web pages, mail exploders, and newsgroups, the same individual can become a pamphleteer.” —Stevens, Justice Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union 521 . 844, 117
