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Explores the impact of the internet on jurisdictions and analyses the effects of the technology on copyright, tortious liability, evidence and criminal law. Also considers substantial recent changes in statute and case law including Harmful Digital Communications Act; Search and Surveillance Act and amendments to the Electronic Transactions Act.

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This revised 4th edition focusses on key areas of importance and relevance to practitioners, professionals and students of cyber and internet law, who wish to have an understanding of law with regards to the internet.

An entirely new chapter on harassment and online speech harms has been added since the 3rd edition and the revised 4th edition contains new and revised material examining the following topics:

  • recent case law and legislation including the Harmful Digital Communications Act, the Search and Surveillance Act and amendments to the Electronic Transactions Act
  • speech harms, cyber-bullying and harassment in social and other media
  • e-discovery and evidence and the impact of the Search and Surveillance Act
  • online defamation and content regulation
  • use of Information technology in court
  • recent developments in internet governance since 2011.

 This revised 4th edition differs from the earlier impression as it includes:

-    commentary on 'digital property' in light of the supreme court decision in the case of Dixon v R
-    discussion of the Harmful Digital Communications Act (and the text has been written to reflect the structural changes between the Bill and the Act).

Related Titles

Cheer, U., Burrows and Cheer Media Law in New Zealand, 7th edition, 2015
Electronic Business and Technology Law, Format: one-volume looseleaf, online
Tokeley, K., Consumer Law in New Zealand, 2nd ed., 2015
Patrick, G., et al, Social Media and the Law, 2014

 

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David Harvey

Judge David Harvey

Judge David Harvey was appointed to the District Court Bench in 1989 after 18 years as a litigator. In addition to his judicial duties, he has lectured at the Faculty of Law, Auckland University in Law and Information Technology since 2000. He is recognised as an authority on Internet Law and the impact of new technologies on law and legal thinking. He has edited various publications in the field of Law and IT, and has written extensively in the field and has presented papers at conferences on law and IT issues in New Zealand and internationally.

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Table of contents

Chapter I Law Online

 Accessibility

 Authoritative material

 Judicial decisions online

 Issues related to the transitory nature of web-based information — Link rot

 Using Wikipedia

 Blogs

 
 
Chapter II Governance and Regulation

 The governance taxonomy

 The taxonomy in summary

 Governance by governments

 A Digital Magna Carta?

 
 
Chapter III Domain Name Disputes
 
 The background to ICANN

 Domestic approaches to domain names in New Zealand – The Common Law

 The New Zealand dispute resolution service

 
 
Chapter IV Harassment and Harmful Digital Communications
 
 Regulating the content layer

 Online harassment, cyberbullying and cyberstalking

 Legislative remedies

 Harassment by blog

 Revenge pornography

 
 
Chapter V Content Regulation, Defamation and Reputational Harms 

 Defamation on the Internet

 Murray v Wishart — appeal

 Other remedies for reputational harm

 
 
Chapter VI Jurisdiction — Which Court, Which Law

 Service

 What a defendant may do — opposition to jurisdiction and forum non convenients

 Application of existing provisions to Internet transactions

 Effecting service by email and social media

 Criminal jurisdiction and the Internet 

 
 
Chapter VII Computer Crimes 

 Crimes involving computers

 The effectiveness of the computer crimes provisions

 Cybercrime, cyberterrorism or cyberwarfare

 Sentencing for computer crime 

 
 
Chapter VIII Evidence Issues 

 Documents in the digital environment

 The New Zealand High Court Rules

 Search orders

 Preservation orders

 Search warrants, seizure and electronic interception

 Computer-based evidence — s 137 of the Evidence Act 2006

 
 
Chapter IX Information Technology in Court 

 The image of the courthouse or individual courtroom

 Introducing technology to court

 Examples of information technology use in the court process

 The technology taxonomy

 Remote testimony and alternative means of giving evidence

 Using technology to enhance evidence communication

 Electronic bundles of documents in civil and criminal proceedings

 Technology-enhanced static evidence

 The level playing field, technology failure and the allocation of responsibility

 
 
Chapter X Cybertrespass, Cyberconversion and Spam 

 The property problem

 Cybertrespass

 Domain names and cyberconversion

 Spam

 
 
Chapter XI Online Business Relationships

 Mistake and website transactions

 Duty of care

 The Electronic Transactions Act 2002

 
 
Chapter XII Digital Copyright Issues 

 Technological protection measures and paracopyright

 File sharing 606
 

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