Includes bibliographical references (p. 496-537) and index.

1. What about the balance between law enforcement and data protection? / Irene Portela, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha -- 2. Information agents, social Web, and intellectual property / �Aurea Anguera de Sojo, Francisco Serradilla -- 3. Conflict resolution in virtual locations / Francisco Andrade ... [et al.] -- 4. Legal ontologies in ICT and law / Witold Abramowicz, Piotr Stolarski, Tadeusz Tomaszewski -- 5. Certified originality of digital contents by the time of authentication / Masakazu Ohashi, Mayumi Hori -- 6. Antitrust applied to ICT : granting access, promoting consumers' welfare and enhancing undertakings' R&D investments / Fernando D�iez Estella -- 7. Taxation of virtual worlds : an approach to face virtual worlds as electronic commerce / Daniel Torres Gon�calves -- 8. Intellectual property systems in software / Ricardo Rejas-Muslera ... [et al.] -- 9. A global perspective of laws and regulations dealing with information security and privacy / B. Dawn Medlin, Charlie C. Chen -- 10. Intellectual property protection and process modeling in small knowledge intensive enterprises / Riikka Kulmala, Juha kettunen -- 11. Privacy in pervasive and affective computing environments / Jeremy Pitt ... [et al.] -- 12. Agents, trust and contracts / Paulo Novais, Francisco Andrade, Jos�e Machado, Jos�e Neves -- 13. Between Scylla and Charybdis : the balance between copyright, digital rights management, and freedom of expression / Pedro Pina --

14. Analysis of benefits and risks of e-commerce : practical study of Spanish SME / Beatriz Sainz de Abajo, Isabel de la Torre D�iez, Miguel L�opez-Coronado -- 15. Data security legislative as data shredding mill / Jaroslav Kr�al, Michal Emli?ka -- 16. Collaborative practices in computer-aided academic research / J. Leng, Wes Sharrock -- 17. Designing appropriate frameworks, models, strategies, and solutions / Pawan Chhabra, Chetan Jagatkishore Kothari, Subhadip Sarkar -- 18. International transfers of personal data : a UK law perspective / Sam de Silva, Taylor Walton -- 19. Restricted access and blocking websites, Internet regulations, and Turkey practices / Murat Erdal ... [et al.] -- 20. Hardware secure access to servers and applications / Jos�e Antonio �Alvarez Bermejo, Juan Antonio L�opez Ramos, Francisco Javier G�alvez S�anchez -- 21. Ensuring users' rights to privacy, confidence, and reputation in the online learning environment : what should instructors do to protect their students' privacy? / Louis B. Swartz, Michele T. Cole, David A. Lovejoy -- 22. Legislation-aware privacy protection in passive network monitoring / Georgios V. Lioudakis ... [et al.]. -- 23. The project of the ancient Spanish cartography e-library : main targets and legal challenges / P. Ch�ias, T. Abad, E. Rivera -- 24. Trusted computing or distributed trust management? / Michele Tomaiuolo --

25. The senior web accessibility : the laws, the standards, and the practices / Isabelle Motte, Monique Noirhomme-Fraiture -- 26. E-health at home : legal, privacy, and security aspects / Juan Jos�e Andr�es-Guti�errez ... [et al.] -- 27. Controlling informational society : a Google error analysis! / Gon�calo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva, Piotr Pawlak.

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