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The founder and executive editor of the Internet Law Journal is Christopher Gerstle, a third-year student. Before coming to CWRU, Gerstle, 26, earned a B.S. in engineering from Cooper Union college in New York. He ... co-founded two Internet start-up companies in New York, and was a consultant to the marketing department of barnesandnoble.com prior to the site's 1997 launch.
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The Singapore government seeks to control the content of what is placed upon the Internet in the same manner that the newspapers and television are controlled. To control the television medium, the government banned the use of satellite dishes, and regulates what channels are allowed on cable networks. (*Cyberspace in Singapore*, The New York Times, November 8, 1995, p.24) To control what materials are placed on the Internet, the government has developed a national phone line system through which individuals can access the Internet. The phone lines can be monitored and the abusers are then unable to escape detection. However, the government has been frustrated by two dilemmas: (1)the accessibility of foreign phone lines, and (2)cybercafes.
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The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was signed into law in December 2000, and mandated the use of filtering technologies in schools and libraries that receive certain types of federal funding. With respect to libraries, CIPA was immediately challenged in court and did not initially go into effect. Opponents of the law relied on earlier court cases saying that governmentally-imposed limitations on the public’s right to freely read and learn at public libraries violates the free speech protections of the First Amendment.
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As of this legal decision, some creators have tried to make a distinction between what is private communication and what is public communication when using the Internet. Most of them have reached the conclusion that messages on so-called e-mail display communication of a private nature. Meanwhile, that which is displayed on a web page is public communication. There will be exceptions, for example, when dealing with a message sent to a significant number of people, which would then lose its private nature.28
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The Law Source publishes a number Internet legal resource site catalogs, including the Resources via the Internet and the Internet Legal Guide series of publications. The web site includes law firm and attorney directories, law school directories, legal associations and organizations, legal consultants and experts, legal publishers, and legal reference sites. http://thelawsource.com/
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Having seen that the Internet can reach all the households in the world in a minimal time and with excellent image, sound and text quality, many vendors want to be able to sell their products over the Internet. The law that could be applied here is that of common law. The norms belonging to the Civil and Commerce codes would apply if a sale or a lease were made. The current problem regarding the Internet is how to guarantee security in business transactions.
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