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New Net Laws Reach Beyond Borders. For Smaller Nations Such as Canada, it[acute accent]s Getting Harder to Effectively Create Independent Policy.

Publication: Mondaq Business Briefing
Publication Date: 16-JUL-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: New Net Laws Reach Beyond Borders. For Smaller Nations Such as Canada, it[acute accent]s Getting Harder to Effectively Create Independent Policy.(Internet laws)(Brief Article)

Article Excerpt
The challenge of borders lies at the very heart of cyberlaw. Most observers have long argued that the Internet presents lawmakers with a jurisdictional dilemma: The Internet is viewed as "borderless," but law is best characterized as "bordered" because national laws typically stop at the border.

Last year, I suggested that the borderless Internet was gradually growing into a bordered Internet, with new geo-identifying technologies emerging that allow Web sites to identify the geographic location of their users. Today, it is increasingly clear that a second trend is developing -- as the borderless Internet is fast becoming the bordered Internet, borderless laws are replacing bordered laws.

The implication of the second development is particularly dramatic because it suggests that Internet policy-making power lies primarily in the United States and the European...

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