The Internet has become central to the lives of billions of people and is essential to the way the world does business. But at its heart, it is nothing more than a network for digital communication. Its value comes from its ability to connect users: to one another, to the services they want, and to the content they consume, create, and share. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and thousands of other services are described as “social” media because they are fundamentally designed to permit their users to communicate and share content. Even the crusty old Web gets its name from the “web” of hypertext links that interconnect content on servers around the world.
With this new environment come new legal and policy challenges, not the least of which is finding a balance between open access to information and the protection of privacy, intellectual property and other rights of users and content creators. As a practical matter, the issue often comes down to who should bear the burden of policing and protecting those rights.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
