Music Distribution And the Internet ― A Legal Guide for the Music Business

For those in the music industry, Sparrow, a solicitor in the UK who specializes in law relating to online business, explains legal issues relating to the music business in the UK. Topics encompass contracts and agreements, website terms and conditions, the use of personal information, and copyright. He also details e-commerce regulations in the European Union introduced in 2002, online marketing and sales regulations, internet music distribution laws, advertising, electronic signatures, and disability discrimination. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Andrew Sparrow is a national award winning Solicitor and founder of Lecote Solicitors, a niche commercial law firm concentrating on Internet, IT and New Media Law. He was one of the first Solicitors in the United Kingdom to pursue the legal issues relating to online business. Andrew is author of several books on commercial and Internet law published internationally. In a national poll conducted in 2004 and supported by the Department of Trade & Industry he was acknowledged as one of 100 individuals in the UK who have contributed most to the development of the internet in the last ten years.