Assessing Legal Challenges on the Mobile Web

This paper aims at describing the future legal challenges related to information products and services on the Mobile World Wide Web. Using a few scenarios, we describe what the most essential characteristics of the future Mobile Web will be and how information products and services will be used on it. The scenarios are built using a systematic method. As the emerging problems are very complex, we must take into account several major factors. We are not considering only technological changes and economic factors, but also societal issues and how individuals feel and behave. The scenarios enable us to identify what kinds of legal challenges will emerge. Based on the scenarios, we conclude that the legal areas that will include most challenges on the Mobile Internet are intellectual property rights, privacy, and contracts.