Internet Law Journal Launched

deborah writes: "I came across an interesting blurb in my CWRU alumni magazine today. It's for a new journal focused entirely on Internet Law. As far as I know this is the first journal to focus specifically on Internet topics and it's surprisingly readable. Sample headlines include 'The Law on Hackers and Crackers' and 'The Legal Risks of Trademarks as Internet Search Terms'."

Comments

Tailored to Ecommerce

[Masem]

While this is a good site for many issues, it's too tailored to those in the ecommerce field. In the domain name and trademark article, for example, they only talk about cases where the disputed domain was for-profit, and generally run by someone looking to make money. There's very little about non-profit, individual sites that have a legit reason to exist.

Also, here's a snippet that made me blink twice in the article about securing and defending your domain name:

Odds are, however, someone prior in time had a similar idea and the domain name you want is already registered by that person. Under these circumstances, three options exist: (1) try to handle the matter amicably and directly with the registrant; (2) file a law suit; or (3) arbitrate.

Um, where's option number 4: Find another domain name? The rest of the article talks about all the legal hassles that you have to do to get the domain you want, but alludes to nothing more on searching for alternate domains. This is NOT the way that domain names were supposed to work, and given that this journal is proporting the 'new' way, I raise a few doubts about it.

Blind leading the blind....

[FreeJack1]

What I find humourous about this is that these "Internet Laws" are or will be made up by corporate and professional legals who have little or no techno-experience. I'd be willing to bet that they probably have never heard of the terms: "open source", "Linux-driven server", "OpenVMS", and the list continues. What they should do if they really feel a need for these laws is gather together a type of consortium consisting of a multi-national group of mature "techno-geeks" who would moderate and ensure fair and properly written bindings. Hopefully that came out ok, My mind works much faster than my fingers can keep up....

US centric internet - again

[DaveHowe]

Hmm. it seems to suffer from the usual blight of "internet" websites - it assumes the US is the only country whose laws matter (the only major article on the EEC is one that describes the advantages to American businesses of the new EEC ecommerce initiative - no mention of the eec anti-hacking and english RIP measures being fast-tracked through their respective processes; there is also a sidebar commment on the new english Healthservice-online self-diagnosis helpsite, that wouldn't overflow a standard slashdot header box. When are we going to get "internet" sites that notice the rest of the world?
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come and get it!

[FascDot Killed My Pr]

OK you lawyers who want to make money off the Internet, come read this this journal. That's right, stand a little closer together, come on, there's room for everyone. Now don't move for a second....

KABOOM

....there, I think I got 'em all.
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