[governance] regulating the digital space - whose laws apply, and whose do not

[Roland Perry]

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12:35:58 on Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Paul Lehto <lehto.paul at gmail.com> writes
>I say that just as the printing press has structural laws to encourage
>it (copyright) and to restrict it (defamation and consumer protection
>laws) so too does and will the internet have quite similar laws both
>supporting and encouraging communication as well as proscribing the
>abuses of this communication.

Unless those structural laws specifically exclude the Internet, the 
situation is that they will have always applied.

There will always be some difficulties in interpretation - for example a 
newspaper editor is responsible for defamations printed in his 
publication, but are the IGC Co-ordinators responsible for defamations 
appearing on this list?

It's that kind of issue that I've always regarded as the most useful to 
study, rather than trying to deny that defamation could apply to the 
Internet at all. (Some people do occasionally claim that, for example 
citing a "right to reply" as sufficient remedy for the defamed).

-- 
Roland Perry
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