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. Andrew is the author of several books on commercial and internet law, including Music Distribution and the Internet (2006) and Film and Television Distribution and the Internet (2007), both of which are published by Gower. In a national poll conducted in 2004 and supported by the then 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.
'As a national award-winning solicitor and founder of Lecote Solicitors, Andrew Sparrow is well qualified to author a book on raising awareness and explaining the complexity of laws in the sophisticated virtual and internet social network sphere. Considering the long-term future of these in civic, educational and health contexts (to name but a few), The Law of Virtual Worlds and Internet Social Networks is a timely publication...The Law of Virtual Worlds and Internet Social Networks is recommended for researchers in the field as well as practitioners wishing to take their services to the next level.' - Ina Fourie, University of Pretoria, Online Information Review