Legal Issues in Global Contexts: Perspectives on Technical Communication in an International Age

by Kirk St. Amant

Today, it has been said, the world is "flat," as online media allow information to move easily from point to point across the earth. International legal differences, however, are increasingly affecting the ease with which data and ideas can be shared across nations. Copyright law, for example, affects the international flow of materials by stipulating who has the right to replicate or to share certain kinds of content. Similarly, perspectives on privacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895038366
• ISBN13: 9780895038364
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages