Commercial transactions on the global information infrastructure: a European perspective
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Regulation of the information infrastructure does exist in the UK and the European Union, but challenges still exist in revising copyright, data protection and telecommunications laws to address technological changes. Analogizing data transmission to cargo shipment may be valuable for policy-makers. Data is like bundles of cargo, and the businesses charged with transmitting the information may have little concern for the content. Liability laws should focus on parties responsible for creating offensive or infringing material and not on those simply moving the information from one point to the next.
Publication Name: The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law
Subject: Library and information science
ISSN: 1078-4128
Year: 1996
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Harmonisation of European Union privacy law
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The Data Protection Directive released by the Council of the European Union in 1995 will provide member nations with the strongest and most comprehensive regulations yet but will also require national laws to be harmonized to promote compliance with the standards established. Some nations have differing bases for data privacy that could complicate harmonization. For example, the source of German laws is constitutional, and UK protections are essentially regulatory. More debate over the Directive is needed to resolve national differences.
Publication Name: The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law
Subject: Library and information science
ISSN: 1078-4128
Year: 1996
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The federal government giveth and taketh away: how NSI's domain name dispute policy (Revision 02) usurps a domain name owner's Fifth Amendment procedural due process
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The Domain Name Dispute Policy currently employed by Network Solutions Inc., the corporation charged with managing the Internet's domain name system, fails to comply with procedural due process standards under the Fifth Amendment. As a government corporation receiving substantial federal funding, Network Solutions is considered a state actor for constitutional law purposes. The policies for resolving domain name disputes should be revised to provide for a hearing before a neutral body.
Publication Name: The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law
Subject: Library and information science
ISSN: 1078-4128
Year: 1997
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