The Legal and Regulatory Environment of the Internet
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چکیده
The legal environment of the Internet has often been compared with the Wild West in the days of the American frontier. This analogy is used to convey the wide open and freewheeling atmosphere that pervades this area of the law. The Internet, like many other technological phenomena, is developing along several parallel directions. The main line is the technology direction—those facets of networking, computing, software, and data base, which, when combined, add up to the ability to access the array of interconnected computers known as the Internet. The second area of development is the nature of business on the Internet. How can information be exchanged? How can goods or services be bought or sold?What aspects of today's business rules can be effectively employed as rules for tomorrow's net-based business? It is only after business transactions are in process or, more properly, when business transactions do not turn out according to the expectations of the participants that the law enters into the picture. Astute managers do not resort to the law to correct a problem; rather, the law is supposed to be used as a guideline to avoid problems or to minimize the consequences if things go wrong. Therefore, it follows that the law of the Internet is an emerging and evolving beast. Large end-user organizations are turning to technology first and then are immersed in the process of figuring out how to use that technology. Once the technology is employed, the true nature of its influence on business relationships can be determined. The deeper and more mission-critical the use of technology is, the more severe the effects are if something goes awry. When it is clear that a simple business solution will not work to resolve a problem, lawyers are called.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Information Systems Security
دوره 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997