Books by Tom James (Thomas B James)

E-Commerce Law

The Legal Compliance Handbook for Online Business

E-Commerce Law by Minnesota attorney Thomas B. James (also known as Thomas James or Tom James), Cokato, Minnesota USA. An indispensable guide to the law for online sellers, buyers and advertisers. E-Commerce Law explains what you need to know about the legal aspects of doing business over the Internet.

828 pp., 7.44 x 9.69. Index; tables of statutes and cases; bibliography.  

Echion (2020). ISBN-13: 978-1946397065.

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Contents

E-Commerce Law by Tom James, JD (Thomas B James) 

 

Table of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction

 

Part I. Business Law

 

1. Starting a Business
2. Capital
3. Management
4. Employment
5. Franchises
6. Transfers of Business Interests
7. Unfair Competition
8. Dissolution

Part II. Sales

 

9. Contracts
10. Electronic Payments
11. Delivery, Cancellation, and Chargebacks
12. Collections
13. Data Security
14. Taxes

Part III. Website Content

 

15. Advertising
16. Disparagement and Defamation
17. Privacy
18. Children
19. Sexually Explicit Material
20. Computer Crime and Abuse
21. User-Provided Content
22. Other Content Regulations

Part IV. Intellectual Property

 

23. Copyrights
24. The Public Domain
25. Fair Use
26. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
27. Protecting Copyrights
28. Trademarks
29. Domain Names
30. Patents
31. Trade Secrets, Information, and Ideas
32. Licenses and Transfers
33. Music and Sound Recordings

Part V. Dispute Resolution

 

34. Jurisdiction and Conflicts of Laws
35. Alternatives to Litigation

Notes

Bibliography
Table of Statutes and Cases
Index

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Website Law

A guide to copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, defamation, pornography, and other laws regulating website content.

In this book, attorney Tom James provides detailed explanations of the public domain, “fair use” and other complex copyright concepts  in easy-to-understand language. The author also shows how website owners and bloggers can use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Communications Decency Act  to protect themselves from liability for comments and other user-provided content.

The book also covers the ins and outs of licensing music, artwork, photographs, video  and text for use in a web site. It provides specific information about licensing contracts; terms; royalty calculations, payments and accounting. Author Thomas James also explains how to find royalty-free images online.

This book is primarily for bloggers and owners of noncommercial websites. E-Commerce Law: The Legal Compliance Handbook for Online Businesses is recommended for owners of commercial websites.

410 pp. 6 x 9. Forms, appendices, bibliography, index.

Echion (2017). ISBN-13: 978-1946397003

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The History of Custody Law

The first and only comprehensive account of the history of the law of child custody from the ancient Mesopotamian law codes to the present-day schism between gender neutrality/equality and polarity.

Minnesota attorney Tom James explains the evolution of key concepts like the maternal preference and tender years doctrine, the “paramount rights” of fathers, the primary caretaker standard, the role of marital fault, “best interest” factors, the constitutionalization of parental rights, rights regarding children born out of wedlock, child protection, third party rights, visitation, joint custody, and more.

Tom James also discusses the impact of women’s movements, and of late twentieth century welfare and child support legislation, on American child custody law.  Essential reading for family law professionals, and anyone with an interest in family law reform and the welfare of children.

New to this edition: survey of state no-fault statutes; key U.S. Supreme Court decisions; a new chapter on the rights of gay, lesbian, and transgendered parents; and an extensive bibliography.

340 pp., 6 x 9. Bibliography, index. 2014.

ISBN-13: 978-1499182033

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Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren’t Supposed to Know, by Thomas B James

Is domestic violence strictly a male phenomenon? Are all women who abuse their partners acting in self-defense? Is domestic violence about male privilege, power and control? In this book, Minnesota attorney Thomas B. James conducts a meticulous and thorough examination of the research on domestic violence, coming to the unsettling conclusion that virtually everything we think we know about domestic violence is wrong. Exposing evidence of a deliberate campaign to distort the truth and proliferate lies, Tom James explains why honesty and candor are our only real hope for bringing an end to this enormous and troubling social problem.

292 pp., 5.5 x 8.5, extensively annotated with appendix, bibliography, index.

Aventine Press (2003) ISBN-13: 978-1593301224 Paperback 

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