SOC 3116 Study Guide - Digital Rights Management, World Intellectual Property Organization, Universal Service
Document Summary
Chapter 9 internet law, policy, and governance. Internet law, policy, and governance: domains covered by cyberspace law include: Freedom of speech freedom of expression, obscenity, pornography, protection of children, cultural rights. Intellectual property issues copyright law, patent law, trademarks, gifts and online exchanges. Privacy cryptography and privacy protection for online transactions, employment privacy, personal information protection, data security. Security cybercrime, spamming, cyberstalking, online harassment, hacking, identity theft, terrorism o o o: unique characteristics in networked information intangible, geographically distributed, recombinant, and continually changing in form/character. Existing legislation depends on demonstrable, localizable, and liable legal persons or owners. Internet law arises from global nature of the internet and its network infrastructure. Problem internet users are able to evade national laws by accessing content or undertaking transactions through other territorial domains o o. Law is developed from applications and extensions of the internet. Internet is largely unplanned and incoherent, thus hard to govern.
