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IP: U.S. lawyers mull commission to set Internet rules
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:22:08 -0700
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:44:48 +1000 (EST) From: David Goldstein <goldstein_david () yahoo com au> Hi all A story on an American ABA, the American Bar Association, and one of their committees have released a report suggesting a multinational commission needs to be created to set global Internet rules. There's also a story from Wired at http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,37487,00.html, but both are from Reuters. The report is available at http://www.kentlaw.edu/cyberlaw/docs/drafts/draft.rtf. The report is very long, close to 200 pages, but double line spaced. Cheers David U.S. lawyers mull commission to set Internet rules http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/070170.htm NEW YORK (Reuters) - A study of cyberspace legal issues released by an American Bar Association committee Monday suggested a multinational commission needs to be created to set global Internet rules. The two-year study, which was released at the ABA's annual meeting in New York, examined a range of topics including consumer protection, privacy, banking, securities, taxes and gaming. The report also reviewed how regulatory agencies in the United States and abroad must change to adapt to a new world of electronic commerce that is not dependent on physical location. The report's conclusions have not been adopted by the ABA. Industry leaders were expected to offer formal comments on the report on July 17 at the London session of the ABA's annual meeting. ``Anyone doing business in cyberspace needs to know what laws to obey, whether it be a question of what taxes are due and where, or what consumer protections apply to the sale of their products or services,'' Thomas Vartanian, chair of the ABA Global Cyberspace Jurisdiction Project, told a news conference. He said rules were needed to maximize the efficiency of electronic commerce and said government cannot write and approve laws fast enough to keep up with the changing technology. Vartanian said the study underscored the limited ability that any one state or nation may have in bringing greater certainty to cyberspace and thus the need for a multinational commission that could work with governments to establish rules. ``It's as if we've landed on Mars and we're constructing a commercial and business setting,'' he said. ``We have to establish new rules of engagement and we have to get people used to dealing with those new rules.'' The study offered a menu of solutions a global commission could undertake. Among the suggestions was the creation of a cybertribunal and voluntary industry councils to develop private sector methods of resolving e-commerce disputes. Another suggestion was that global industry regulatory authorities be encouraged to reach agreement about how laws will be applied to financial products and services offered in an electronic environment. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Movies - Find out what's on at the local cinema with Yahoo! Movies * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request () apnic net *
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