_Syslaw_
It's almost a cliche by now that the frontier of new media, particularly the electronic media of computer conferencing, runs ahead of the law. Legal paradox seems the norm in online life, where there is no there there, and operators of computer networks - system operators, or sysops - are half-way between publishers (responsible for what is said) and telephone companies (not responsible for what anyone says). It turns out there is more law on this frontier than imagined, and now that money, real money, is being made by small conferencing sysops, "syslaw" is catching up. _Syslaw_ (Second Edition) is a remarkably readable book detailing current interpretations of intellectual property and civil liberties online. It's required reading for cyberspace cowboys.
_Syslaw_, by Rose and Wallace, 1992, $35, LOL Productions, 800-321-8285.
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