The Internet and Copyright Law are particularly ill-suited to each other. One is designed to give as much information as possible to everyone who wants it; the other allows authors, artists and publishers to earn money by restricting the distribution of information. The beneficiaries of copyright law are lobbying for the re-design of computers and the Internet to enforce “content control” and “...

Companies are taking advantage of the opportunities offered by globalisation to reach new markets and to lower their costs. It is common for large companies to establish overseas subsidiaries. The different legal regimes and law enforcement policies that exist in many developing economies and the current weaknesses of international regulation means that it can be difficult to hold international...

Recent developments in entertainment and communications technology have created challenges for those who make classification decisions and who enforce censorship law. High speed private internet access, DVD technology, mobile telephony and advances in video gaming have all created challenges for censorship legislation originally designed to deal with films, videos and paper publications. The la...

We focus on the event that Taobao Mall(Tmall) changed its charging rules on October10 in 2011 which received strongly protest of small and medium sellers, and analyze the whole event separately from business and law. From business perspective, we analyze the resistance of the E-commerce transformation, and offer a solution based on shared-value theory. From the law perspective, we discuss the l...

Introduction Once a backwater of law that elicited little interest beyond arts and entertainment industries and their lawyers, copyright law has become a major arena of social and political conflict over the past generation. Many clashes amount to tactical skirmishes among companies for competitive advantage – a long and familiar dynamic in copyright law. But much of the turmoil revolves around...

In this chapter, I define the scope of electronic commerce law and discuss how law can evolve in response to rapid change in social and business practices. I summarize how commercial law has adapted to electronic sales of goods using EDI and Internet distribution systems, discuss the strengths and weaknesses from a legal perspective of a new technology-based model for electronic commerce – digi...

Internet regulation has evolved from self-regulation to the criminalization of conduct to state control of information available, accessed and submitted. Criticism has been leveled at the different forms of state control and the methods employed to enforce state control. After the terrorist attack on the USA on 11 September 2001, governments justify Internet state control as a law enforcement a...