A blog relating to Internet legal issues by Professor John Swinson, University of Queensland
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How should damages be assessed for privacy and cybersecurity breaches
Listen to this podcast where I discuss how damages should be assessed in privacy and cybersecurity lawsuits. The Lawyers Weekly Show host J...
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The United Nations intellectual property agency (WIPO) is the latest front in the US-China trade war. http://www.theage.com.au/world/sad-am...
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The issue of content regulation in China was mentioned in this blog last year . In the last few weeks, this issue has once again pushed into...
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Finally, what is called direct registration of domain names is coming to Australia. See https://www.auda.org.au/statement/australias-interne...
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I checked it out. It actually looks like a unique website but uses all the amazon functionalities. I can see where creating this kind of site can have great commerical potential, particularily if it is linked with a blog or site that deals in the subject area. I am definitely going to have to try and create my own.
That is fantastic, though some items discussed previously may be absent such as Privacy policy etc.
However, it does demonstrate the relative ease in creating a commercial application for the internet.
It really is a great use of the net, and I expect that we are going to see more and more user driven components and content in the net commercial scene. It definitely seems to be an example of internet business models of the future that Lawrence Lessig discusses in his book Remix.
However, I can’t help but think that this *new* commercial application is somewhat representative of the scarier aspect of this technology, namely its speed in outpacing the law. For example, when I added a book to my shopping cart there was still no indication of any privacy policy or terms and conditions, it was only when I proceeded to “checkout” did I notice such. Obviously this raises the question of whether such is sufficient, which indeed knowing the army of lawyers Amazon would likely have at its disposal it no doubt is. However, it does somewhat illustrate this scarier aspect of the internet, albeit weakly.
(Please Note: Such observation was obviously made in ignorance of the relevant US Law)
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