Digital Consumers and the Law


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Preface --List of Abbreviations --Digital Content Markets for Consumers: Characteristics, Challenges, and Legal Context --Classifying Digital Content: Good, Service or Else? --Somewhere between 'B' and 'C': The Legal Status of the 'Prosumer' in European Consumer Laws --Pre-contractual Information Requirements for Digital Content --Conformity and Non-conformity of Digital Content --Educating the Regulator: A More Mature Approach Towards the Underage Consumer --Fundamental Rights and Digital Content Contracts --Money Does Not Grow on Trees, It Grows on People: Towards a Model of Privacy as Virtue --Conclusions --Appendix --Bibliography.




Digital Media & Intellectual Property


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The book provides a comparative and comprehensive analysis of the current technical, commercial and economical development in digital media describing the impact of new business and distribution models, the current legal and regulatory framework, social practices and consumer expectations associated with the use, distribution, and control of digital media products. In particular the author analyze the anti-circumvention provisions for technological protection measures and digital rights management systems enacted in the United States and in Europe.




Consumer Protection Handbook


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For legal practitioners who are non-specialists in consumer protection law. A concise guide to the basic principles of consumer protection law.




Dietary Supplements


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Navigating Social Media Legal Risks


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The plain-English business guide to avoiding social media legal risks and liabilities—for anyone using social media for business—written specifically for non-attorneys! You already know social media can help you find customers, strengthen relationships, and build your reputation, but if you are not careful, it also can expose your company to expensive legal issues and regulatory scrutiny. This insightful, first-of-its-kind book provides business professionals with strategies for navigating the unique legal risks arising from social, mobile, and online media. Distilling his knowledge into a 100% practical guide specifically for non-lawyers, author and seasoned business attorney, Robert McHale, steps out of the courtroom to review today’s U.S. laws related to social media and alert businesses to the common (and sometimes hidden) pitfalls to avoid. Best of all, McHale offers practical, actionable solutions, preventative measures, and valuable tips on shielding your business from social media legal exposures associated with employment screening, promotions, endorsements, user-generated content, trademarks, copyrights, privacy, security, defamation, and more... You’ll Learn How To • Craft legally compliant social media promotions, contests, sweepstakes, and advertising campaigns • Write effective social media policies and implement best practices for governance • Ensure the security of sensitive company and customer information • Properly monitor and regulate the way your employees use social media • Avoid high-profile social media mishaps that can instantly damage reputation, brand equity, and goodwill, and create massive potential liability • Avoid unintentional employment and labor law violations in the use of social media in pre-employment screening • Manage legal issues associated with game-based marketing, “virtual currencies,” and hyper-targeting • Manage the legal risks of user-generated content (UGC) • Protect your trademarks online, and overcome brandjacking and cybersquatting • Understand the e-discovery implications of social media in lawsuits




SQL Interview Questions


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Let us break the SQL interview with the help of SQL Server interview questions. DESCRIPTION This book gives you a complete idea about the SQL database. It starts from a very basic concept like what is a database, its usage, types, creation, and data storage, security, sorting, and searching for a stored procedure. This book is a complete set of interview breaking questions and answers with live examples and plenty of screenshots. This book takes you on a journey to mastering the SQL database, including SQL datatypes, functions, triggers, and stored procedures. This book also covers the latest and new features of SQL 2016, 2017 and 2019 CTP with examples. In the beginner section, we start with very basic concepts like what is a database, why to use a database, different types of database types, what is SQL, its usages, advantage and disadvantages, SQL datatypes, its different operators and how to use them with samples. In the intermediate section, we will learn about the different SQL functions, SQL Joins (used to fetch values from multiple SQL tables) and SQL DDL, DCL, and DTL commands.Ê (About the last chapters) This is the advanced section of the book where we have provided an explanation of the SQL stored procedure, triggers and SQL view concepts, additionally, we have covered SQL core concepts like keys, indexes, injections and constraints. We have also introduced cutting-edge concepts like SSRS, SSIS, SQL Cloud database (Azure), JSON Support and a list of the new features of SQL 2016, 2017, CTP-2019 with SQL performance improvement tips. Finally, we have ended the book with a series of random SQL questions and answers. KEY FEATURESÊÊ Database Basic Concepts SQL Fundamentals DDMS, SQL Statements, and Clauses SQL Operators, Datatypes, and Keywords SQL Functions, Wildcards and Dates SQL Joins and CASE Statement SQL DDL, DCL, and DTL Statements SQL Stored procedures, Triggers, Views, and Transactions SQL Keys, Indexes, Injection, and Constraints SSRS, SSIS, SQL Cloud database (Azure), and JSON Support New features of SQL 2016, 2017, and 2019 SQL Performance Improvement Tips Fuzzy Interview Questions and Answers WHAT WILL YOU LEARNÊÊ After reading this book, you will be able to understand SQL database concepts, handle core database activities like data security, searching, migration, and sorting. You will be able to handle the database transactions, use different SQL datatypes, functions, triggers, and stored procedures to save and retrieve data from the database. You will also be able to understand advanced SQL concepts like SQL reporting services, integration services, cloud database and new features from the latest SQL versions like 2016, 2017, and 2019. WHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊÊ This book is built in such a way that it is useful for all categories such as technical or non-technical readers. This book is perfect. If you are a fresher and you want to learn about SQL, or if you are a teacher and you want to spread SQL knowledge, this book is very helpful. If you want to crack the database interview or if you are working as a DBA and you want to upgrade your knowledge, or if you are backend developer, database tester, performance optimizer, or if your role is that of a database admin, SQL developer, data analyst, mobile app developer or if you are working on core SQL concepts, this book is just right for you. This book is very useful as it contains many simple real-time scenarios for each concept. All functionalities are explained with real SQL screenshots and database records. Table of Contents 1. Database and SQL Basics 2. DDMS SQL Statements and Clauses 3. SQL Operators, Keywords, and Datatypes 4. SQL Operators 5. SQL Functions, Wildcards, and Dates 6. SQL Joins and CASE Statement 7. SQL DDL, DCL, and DTL Statements 8. SQL Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, and Transactions 9. SQL Keys, Indexes, Injections, and Constraints 10. SSRS, SSIS, SQL Cloud database (Azure), and JSON Support 11. New features of SQL 2016, 2017, and 2019 12. SQL Performance Improvement Tips and Fuzzy Interview Questions




Media And Consumer Protection


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In Indian context.




The Regulation of Social Media Influencers


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In today’s society, the power of someone’s reputation, or influence, has been turned into a job: that of being a social media influencer. This role comes with promises, such as aspirational work, but is rife with challenges, given the controversy that often surrounds influencers. This is the first book on the regulation of social media influencers, that brings together legal, economic and ethical angles to further unveil the implications of influencer marketing.




Social Media and Democracy


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A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.




Rethinking Consumer Protection


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For many decades consumer protection laws have focused on preventing “bad” choices. Though that approach has some value, this book explains we are much more often harmed, even killed, by the needless delay of new inventions that could save lives or vastly improve life quality. Thomas Tacker explains how we can revamp regulation to embrace inventions that save and improve lives while still holding companies accountable for actions that harm consumers. Case studies include price gouging, the FDA approval process, airport passenger screening, and occupational licensing, particularly as it relates to Uber. This book demonstrates that enacting appropriate liability laws and providing information to guide consumers, rather than strictly controlling their choices, will save thousands of lives annually, increase consumer freedom, and make life more enjoyable.