... and importance of legal aspects in libraries, solutions to legal issues relevant to libraries, specific legal issues relevant to libraries, and legal education for library professionals. The challenges for library professionals are to understand legal issues and applicable laws so that they can handle...

... for consideration by library and information professionals is the chapter dealing with data protection and privacy. This chapter's focus on European Economic Area (EEA) data protection law (which is the UK data protection law) is good in that it may highlight other countries' gaps in this area. For instance, since...

... . Law Privacy Libraries and information Privacy attracts so much discussion (often more heat than light) that it is reasonable to wonder why another book is needed about it. This one, however, does useful work in sorting out the issues and adding to transparency. Solove is a law academic...

...Stuart Hannabuss Sources such as Bracton's De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (On the Laws and Customs of England), dating from judge Henry Bracton (who died in 1268) and Leges Henrici Primi (The Laws of Henry I), a compilation based on law of the Anglo‐Saxon kinds made...

...Stuart Hannabuss Law Information theory Dictionaries Information is like lexicography and the law in that definitions matter most if not all of the time. There is an understandable urge to define things and notions accurately, stipulatively, denotatively (not just connotatively...

...Stuart Hannabuss So far so good. Earlier I said that there was something else that publishers like Facet could and should do with and in such books. My case would start with what I said about Stead's use of examples or case‐studies. He does, by the way, cite actual legal cases (i.e. case law...

...Stuart Hannabuss Ian   McLeod . Key Concepts in Law . Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave Macmillan   2006 . viii+260 pp. , ISBN: 10: 0‐230‐00014‐2 , ISBN: 13: 978‐0‐230‐00014‐8 paperback   £11.99 With information of this kind, the book does a good job within its modest...

... it!), implications of trademark law for packaging and merchandizing and customer confusion, and the pharmacist's responsibility under the controlled substances legislation. Federal and state law are clearly separated out as it goes along. The introductory chapter provides a framework of the US court system...

...‐84334‐230‐8; 13: 978‐1‐84334‐230‐4 paperback   £39.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Ethics Professional ethics Law A challenge in dealing with information ethics is where to set the boundaries. Understandably, as here, ethics overlaps with law – with the law...

...$59.96 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Ethics Information technology Law Interest in information ethics has grown in recent years and Schultz's new study of contemporary issues goes a long way to explain why this is so. His focus is information and IT ethics rather than...

... for Islamic law (IL). Design/methodology/approach Specific aspects investigated were accessibility and user satisfaction, clarity of terms, ease of use, inclusiveness and comprehensiveness, modernism and innovation, and systematic arrangement and relationships. Findings Three aspects received positive...

...‐188‐9 hardback   US$95.00 (direct from Bloomberg Press, www.bloomberg.com US$71.25) and £55.00 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Law Privacy Slander Internet Publishing Weighing the balance between what we can say about others (our freedom of speech) and what...

... £174.95 + VAT, for other options contact publishers at: www.facetpublishing.co.uk) “Executive i‐briefing” series © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Copyright law Rights issues Intellectual property Law Electronic media Digital rights management in general, and digital...

... of the internet and e‐commerce, moving in on contracts, agreements and licences and focusing on IPR (with some useful, mainly USA, cases on file‐sharing and swings in the law). His discussion of agreements is helpful, updating discussion elsewhere such as Harrison). At times you feel that he has provided...

... Publishing Limited 2007 --> Internet Technology Economics Law There is a general understanding in recent studies of the internet, networks and electronic communications that the business dynamics and public policy implications we find there confirms how this is a domain where technology...

..., US$ 40.00 , ISBN: 1‐59158‐209‐1 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Privacy Law Privacy has come to the top of the agenda around the world. This has given new importance to privacy as an issue for library and information professionals. It has taken several forms, from...

...Stuart Hannabuss Paul   Brennan . Law for IT Professionals . Welwyn Garden City : Emis Professional Publishing   2003 . x+162 pp. , ISBN: 1 85811 322 9   paperback £19.99 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Information technology Law Legal...

..., then, that people who enjoy parody contribute in no small way to its success. The effect on the original creator, if they know or care, can be substantial – as we see from literary feuds and legal wrangles. Law Copyright © MCB UP Limited 2002 Much of the commentary on parody concerns itself...

..., the employer returns to the “in the course of employment” factor to stipulate that, if the material was produced by the employee under such conditions, and was commissioned by the employer, then the IPRs were the employer’s in any case. Intellectual property Copyright Employment Law Universities...

...Stuart Hannabuss Ian J.   Lloyd . Information Technology Law (3rd ed.) . London : Butterworths   2000 . , ISBN: ISBN 0 406 91489 3   £29.95 Information technology Law The emerging importance of IT and computer law shows in the growing numbers of works...