Who Rules the Net?: Internet Governance and Jurisdiction

ISBN: 9781930865433 - 1930865430
Paperback: 450 pages
Data: October 25, 2003
Format: PDF
Description: "The issue of Internet governance--How should it be governed? Should it be governed at all?--is one of the most vexing yet importance areas of information technology policy. Is there something unique about the Internet that requires a new approach to issues like jurisdiction and taxation, or do conventional legal and tax frameworks apply? Who Rules the Net? which grapples with these and related questions, is a valuable compendium of some of the leading thinking on the issue."
--Robert Atkinson, Director of the Technology and New Economy Project, Progressive Policy Institute

"Who Rules the Net? examines the most important issue in Internet policy: What rules will govern in cross-border disputes? What was once considered a backwater issue will impact everyone. The future of free speech, consumer protection, intellectual property rights, and other issues will be determined by the decisions we make today on jurisdiction and the Internet. This book is a rich resource for people grappling with those questions."
--James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology

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