Home >
Law >
Information Technology Law >
Cyberlaw in Hong Kong, 3rd Edition

Cyberlaw in Hong Kong, 3rd Edition

Author: Paul Stephenson; Alisa Kwan
Publisher: LexisNexis Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789888359646
Published In: May 2014
Format: Paperback , 670 pages
Jurisdiction: Hong Kong ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

New Edition is available now !

Description
Contents
Author

Details

Cyberlaw in Hong Kong is essential reading not only for lawyers, but anyone connected with the web. The third edition of this popular title includes the latest amendments to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap 486), with the chapter completely rewritten and includes a chart setting out the complex criminal regime that has been implemented. The Ordinance regulates the sale of personal data in direct marketing, creates a new offence for disclosing personal data without consent and imposes heavier penalties. A discussion on the landmark decision of Shi Tao v Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data is also extensively discussed, among other cases. This book also includes the modifications to the Copyright Ordinance (Cap 528) and the largely amended Trade Descriptions Ordinance (Cap 362) that affects advertising law on the internet.

Defamation is another area of law that has seen an influx of cases in relation to the internet, especially in the UK, where the courts are recognising that messages on the internet are much more likely to 'go viral' than those sent through traditional media. There are also developments in the UK relating to the contentious area of 'metatags' and their relationship with trade mark law that are dealt with in this book, as those decisions will have great influence in Hong Kong. Cyberlaw also looks at China and the internet with the first-to-file principle of the trade mark law now overhauled. It also takes into account cybersquatting and how the courts are prepared to deal with the matter, even from foreign companies.

Remarks: Student Edition is available for Hong Kong local university students. Please click here if you are student.

Chapter 1.....The Internet - Preliminary Points

Chapter 2.....Issues Concerning Jurisdiction

Chapter 3.....Defamation and the Internet

Chapter 4.....Advertising Law and the Internet - An Overview

Chapter 5.....Confidential Information

Chapter 6.....Computer Crimes and Misuse of Computers

Chapter 7.....Computer Evidence

Chapter 8.....Gambling

Chapter 9.....Pornography, Hate and Discrimination on the Internet

Chapter 10.....Interception and Surveillance of Internet

Chapter 11.....Copyright and the Internet

Chapter 12.....Hyperlinks

Chapter 13.....Peer-to-Peer File Sharing: The Hong Kong Perspective

Chapter 14.....Moral Rights

Chapter 15.....'Internet Type' Trade Marks - Registration

Chapter 16.....Trade Marks: Infringement and Passing Off

Chapter 17.....Trade Marks, Copyright, Patents and the Web - International Dimensions

Chapter 18.....Domain Name Disputes - Arbitration in Hong Kong

Chapter 19.....Personal Data Privacy

Chapter 20.....Taxation of E-Commerce in Hong Kong

Chapter 21.....Electronic Contracts

Chapter 22.....Liability for E-(mis)information

Chapter 23.....Spam

Chapter 24.....China and the Internet

Alisa Kwan
Alisa is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Alisa obtained her LL.B degree with honours from the University of Southampton. She practised as a solicitor in England and in Hong Kong for several years before joining the City University. Alisa currently teaches property law to students on different courses and conveyancing to PCLL students. In addition to being admitted to practice in Hong Kong, Alisa is also an advocate and solicitor in Singapore and a solicitor and barrister in the Australian Capital Territory.

Paul Stephenson
Paul is a barrister-at-law practising from Gilt Chambers in Hong Kong and St. James's Chambers, Manchester in the United Kingdom. He is also admitted to the Bar of the State of New York which enables him to advise in relation to United States' law. Paul is a graduate of the Universities of Leeds and Leicester where his LL.M thesis sought to analyse whether national intellectual property laws of EU member states are an inhibitor to the free movement of goods within the European Union.