More on cross-border censorship and copyright enforcement....Michael Geist argues that evolving internet law favors national jurisdiction over anarchy, and favors the rules of the United States and Europe over smaller countries. "In the mid-1990s, several courts in the United States and Canada asserted jurisdiction over Web sites merely because they were accessible within the jurisdiction, an approach that critics rightly noted would allow every court everywhere to stake a similar claim. However, courts gradually set limits on their jurisdictional reach, first by assessing whether a site was active or passive and more recently by considering whether the site targeted the jurisdiction. The [recent] aggressive extra-territorial approach to Internet lawmaking indicates that we are back to square one, where every country everywhere can theoretically lay claim to regulating the same on-line activity."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/27/2002 06:02:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
