Explain the scope of Cyber Laws.

Explain the scope of Cyber Laws.

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Explain the scope of Cyber Laws.

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Scopes of Cyber Laws:

E-Commerce Law:

E-Commerce defined simply, is the commercial transaction of services in an electronic format. Any duplicate involving any E-Commerce activity, whether at buyer or seller’s end, would mean dispute happening in the Cyberspace.

Online Contracts:

Online Contracts represent the formation of series of contractual obligations in an online environment. From a legal perspective, an online contract follows the same pre-requisite as being followed in offline (physical) contract.

Copyright:

Copyright protects “original works of authorship” that are fixed in any tangible medium of expression from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

Business Software Patenting:

With the advent of worldwide web and e-commerce coming of age, the debate of software patenting acquired a new platform in the form o 'business software patents'.

Big E-Commerce etailers, like Amazon, Priceline and Ebay are going for patenting the backend software technologies of their front-end operations.

E-Governance:

E-Governance is a kind of “Window of Opportunity" facilitating a much faster, convenient, transparent and dynamic interaction between the government and its people.

Cyber Crimes:

Cybercrime is a collective term encompassing both "Cyber Contraventions" and "Cyber Offences".

Electronic Signatures:

Electronic Signatures are used to authenticate records. Digital Signatures are one type of Electronic Signature.

Data Protection and Privacy:

Data Protection and Privacy laws aim to achieve a fair balance between the privacy right of the individual and the interests of data controllers such as banks, hospitals, email service providers etc.