Overview of intellectual property rights -- Copyright basics -- Computer software and copyright -- Copyright and databases -- Computer-generated works -- Copyright and electronic publishing -- Copyright in the information society -- The law of confidence -- Patent law -- Trade marks and passing off -- Designs -- Semiconductor products -- International implications and summary -- Introduction to computer contracts -- Fundamentals of computer contracts -- Liability for defective hardware and software -- Contracts for writing software -- Licence agreements for 'off-the-shelf' software -- Website development contracts -- Hardware contracts -- Summary and checklist -- Nature, content and formation of electronic contracts -- Performance of electronic contracts and evidential aspects -- Torts related to electronic information -- Liability of information society service providers for illegal material -- Nature of computer crime -- Computer fraud -- Hacking-unauthorised access to computer material -- Unauthorised modification of computer programs or data -- Piracy and related offences -- Computer pornography and harassment -- Computer crime-concluding remarks -- Introduction and background to the data protection act 1998 -- Data controllers and the data protection act 1998 -- Data subjects' right -- Privacy in electronic communications -- Summary of data protection law

1. Computer crimes -- Great Britain
2. Intellectual property -- Great Britain
3. Computers -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
4. Data protection -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain