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The Year in Internet Law
owenPS writes: "This New York Times article has "excerpts from e-mails written by six legal experts about the year's most important developments in law and technology...As in years past, the common element in the experts' responses seemed to be a sense that Internet law -- and cyberspace itself -- is still unfolding and that new battle lines are forming even as old conflicts are settled.""
What always suprises me about "internet" law is that international shipping law is never mentioned with it. Take the following standard case
Shipping company is Danish lets say Maersk
Sony want to ship 100,000 units from its Corp HQ in Japan to its Inc in the US.
The ship is due to go via Hong Kong for loading onto a larger container ship, it will also go via the Panama canal.
In the carribean it is hit by a freak storm and the articles are damaged.
The contracts that Sony have with Maersk will have clearly defined countries in which the court cases will take place and for the most part this is defined by Maersk.
Why are the internet cases any different, the basic model is the same.
Of course it could just be lawyers generating money for themselves.
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