The copyright battle: emerging international rules and roadblocks on the global information infrastructure

Article Abstract:

The Global Information Infrastructure is changing the balance of interests between copyright holders and users. Information dissemination has become decentralized over the Internet, and users of the Internet are developing the idea that it is the nature of information to be free. Meanwhile, governments are attempting to apply the current copyright system, based on centralized dissemination, by seeking an appropriate balance of interests between users and originators, as in the World Intellectual Property Organization Treaties, EC Green Paper on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society and similar developments in the US and Canada.

International Affairs, Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Copyright Programs, Treaties & Intnl Law, Standards, Computer networks, International aspects, Copyright, International, International copyright, Copyrights, World Intellectual Property Organization, Information networks, international, European Union

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Learning to love "the ultimate peripheral" - virtual vices like "cyberprostitution" suggest a new paradigm to regulate online expression

Article Abstract:

The still-hypothetical industry of cyberprostitution is an appropriate paradigm to consider in the development of effective laws to regulate conduct on the Internet. Efforts to completely restrict all forms of indecent speech in the virtual world, such as the Communications Decency Act, have failed because legislators have not tailored legislation narrowly and have not gained an adequate understanding of the technologies involved. A more sensible approach would focus on developing an understanding of the possibilities of technology and taxing and regulating commerce consistent with such findings.

Database Vendors, Information retrieval services, Database industry, Prostitution, Sex oriented businesses

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The scientological defenestration of choice-of-law doctrines for publication torts on the Internet

Article Abstract:

Courts appear to have been applying traditional choice-of-law rules to Internet-related publication torts with some consistency, but two cases involving the Church of Scientology have called into question how choice-of-law issues are to be applied in cyberspace. The federal courts in Religious Technology Center v. Lerma and Religious Technology Center v. F.A.C.T.NET, Inc. departed from traditional principles in applying the forum state's substantive law. It may be time to consider federalizing torts on the Internet or identifying the Internet as a separate jurisdiction.

Cases, Intellectual property, Conflict of laws, states

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