A new book offers advice on how the laws and regulations that govern nonprofit organizations apply to charities' activities on the Internet.

The Nonprofits' Guide to Internet Communications Law discusses such topics as Internet fund raising, online-donation acknowledgment, unrelated-business activity conducted through organizations' Web sites, and the use of e-mail and the Internet in lobbying. The book was written by Bruce R. Hopkins, a lawyer in Kansas City, Mo., and the author of numerous legal guides for nonprofit organizations, and published by John Wiley & Sons.

Nonprofit law expert Bruce Hopkins writes that with Congress and government agencies reluctant to create new law, it will ultimately be up to the courts to determine the future of Internet law affecting nonprofit organizations. Extrapolating from the underlying principles of existing law, Hopkins addresses the legal ramifications of Internet business activities, charitable-giving administration, fundraising programs, lobbying, political campaign activities, and more.