Electronic Commerce, 4th Edition

The only casebook dealing with e-commerce, Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition, utilizes problems to expound a transactional approach to electronic commerce. Written by Ronald J. Mann, a preeminent and prolific Commercial Law scholar, this system-oriented text is structured around the hypothetical representation of a technology company.

The new edition has been meticulously updated with the latest cases and problems that reflect those cases and current issues.

This concise casebook offers:

• Distinguished authorship: Ronald Mann is a leading scholar in Commercial Law and recently served as Reporter for revisions to UCC Articles 3, 4, and 4A.
• Lucid and concise reading assignments that use non-technical language whenever possible. Need-to-know technology is explained clearly and accessibly.
• Exercises that clearly illustrate current issues in e-commerce practice.
• Dozens of separate assignments so that professors can easily concentrate on their own areas of interest.
• Coverage of important commercial law topics, including:
  • Click-through contracts
  • Cybersquatting
  • Web site development
  • Software licensing
  • Electronic payments
• An extensive Teacher’s Manual that provides answers to all of the assignments in book.

New to the Fourth Edition:

• Updated problems based on recent case law and current issues.
• New cases, including:
  • Rescuecom Corp. v. Google – Second Circuit decision permitting lawsuit against Google for selling ads based on trademarked name
  • Jacobsen v. Katzer – First appellate decision validating licenses for open-source software
  • Jaynes v. Commonwealth of Virginia – Virginia Supreme Court case invalidating Virginia anti-spam law under First Amendment
  • Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com – Ninth Circuit en banc decision on liability of Web site for discriminatory postings seeking roommates
  • Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. v. CraigsList, Inc. – Easterbrook decision exonerating CraigsList for behavior similar to Roommates behavior condemned by Ninth Circuit
  • Conwell v. Gray Loon Outdoor Marketing Group, Inc. – Indiana Supreme Court case interpreting contract for design of Web site