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1997, The Authors.

Yaman Akdeniz is a Ph D student at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Leeds, researching into the governance of the Internet. He is the founder of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK), a non-profit civil liberties organisation whose purpose is to promote free speech and privacy on the Internet.

Alastair Bonnington is the in-house solicitor to the BBC in Scotland. He is co-author of the sixth edition of Scots Law for Journalists, a part time lecturer at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, and Secretary to the Scottish Media Lawyers Society.

Paul Cullen was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1982 and appointed QC in 1996. He was an Advocate Depute from 1992 to 1995, and Solicitor General for Scotland from 1995 to 1997. He is now in private practice at the Scottish Bar specialising in commercial law.

Lars Davies is Research Fellow at the Information Technology Law Unit at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, which he joined in May 1995. He works in the area of electronic commerce, with particular reference to the Internet. Prior to training as a lawyer, he worked in the computer industry. He assists in the teaching of the LLM in Information Technology Law at QMW. He hates biographies of himself, but likes ties.

Sandra Eden is a Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University with a special interest in taxation and pensions. She has also collaborated with Lilian Edwards in the building of a computerised expert system dealing with inheritance tax.

Lilian Edwards is a lecturer in private law at the University of Edinburgh. Having qualified in both law and computer science, her primary research interests lie in the fields of law and artificial intelligence, legal expert systems, freedom of expression in cyberspace, and regulation of the Internet. She is Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology and AI and Law representative to BILETA, the UK academic body for information technology and the law.

Stuart Gale was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1980 and appointed QC in 1993. He acts as a temporary sheriff, and has a special interest in intellectual property and company law.

Ian Lloyd is Professor of Information Technology Law and co-director of the Centre for Law, Computers and Technology at the University of Strathclyde. He has written extensively in the field of computer law including the leading text Information Technology Law (Butterworths). He is Managing Editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology and Joint Editor of the on-line Web-based Journal of Law and Information Technology. Her teaches a range of IT law courses including an LLM course which is delivered over the Internet on a distance learning basis.

John MacKenzie is a partner with Bird Semple, Solicitors and was formerly with Carltons, Solicitors, where he was responsible for setting up and overseeing their Web site and home page.

Hector MacQueen is Professor of Private Law at the University of Edinburgh and Executive Director of the David Hume Institute. He has written extensively in the field of intellectual property law and is author of volume 18 of the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia on Intellectual Property (1993) and Copyright, Competition and Industrial Design (2nd edn, 1995). He is Editor of the Edinburgh Law Review.

Andrew Terrett is a Legal Information Systems Advisor at the international law firm Masons where he is responsible for intranet development. Before joining Masons he was co-ordinator of the national centre for information technology and legal education based at the University of Warwick. He has written on a wide variety of law/technology related topics.

Charlotte Waelde is lecturer in private law at the University of Edinburgh and was previously in commercial practice as a solicitor. She has a special interest in intellectual property and Internet law and has written extensively in these fields. She is editor of the forthcoming Kluwer International Intellectual Property Yearbook.

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