Evolving Into A Modern Era

A person up to date in today's society must acknowledge the importance and the parcticality of the internet. Just as in other areas of society, personal freedoms are stretched to the very limit on this modern invention, raising isuues in regards to what type of information the internet should be allowed to broadcast. Since its inception, the internet has spawned overnight millionaires, served as the new information medium, and even played host to some heinous crimes. The topic of greatest concern though, is in how the people legislate the division between what is obscence and what is allowable. The way that these issues are dealt with will shape the very form in which the internet and other

The subject of law encompasses a wide area and covers a variety of issues and agenda. For the convenience of readers and learners of this subject, it is classified into various categories.

The first reason technology has made laws more accessible to all citizens is because of availability. It is much easier for wealthier companies to hide imperfections behind lawyers, security and closed doors. However, technology has made it easier than ever to accesses legal documents, personal information, and company records. With the click of a mouse, people have at their fingertips a never ending lists of information. Customers and employees can get answers to legal questions like financials

The regulations that categorically states the series of steps to be followed so as to attain a successful end results as far as the lawsuit is concerned in the enforcement bodies of the United States Judiciary is what is referred to as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The high Court identifies the regulations, in most cases on the conference of a court and judges collectively endorses then the acceptance by the Congress being the last step. Electronically stored information means that piece of information which is produced, interfered with, imparted and kept in the form of discrete numbers rather than a continuous spectrum. Eleven years ago, several reviews of these regulations were conducted. Also, to conform to the conduction of the

In class, the students explore how technologies are changing the practice of law. List of readings assist students as they begin their research to define the scope of their projects. The research should address the ethical issues of using the new technology. As student create a new technology to deliver legal services, they are encouraged to “write plain language for the public,” which is becoming an admirable trait for lawyers as providing legal services moves towards more self-represented litigants (S&M, p. 712).

An overview of the attempt to create State laws to apply to the virtual world.

Since no formal law exists within cyberspace, Internet users can find recourse only through the applicable laws of their own government.

Cyber Law is the law that regulates the internet. Meaning, laws or a specific law connected to the internet and/ or computer crimes. Two emerging trends and legal issues involving cyber law are E-mail contracts, and cybersquatting. There are many more cyber laws, but we will just discuss these two today.

This week's article review is taken from Ubiquity, an ACM IT Magazine and forum. The article is "The New Economy: Are Rules Irrelevant?" by Daniel W. Uhlfelder, Esq. In this article it is discussed how the new economy of the Internet move forward and enact laws that would be beneficial to all parties involved. This will be hard if not impossible because the Internet can cross boundaries where laws could not cross. The each country and each region uphold and maintain laws and regulations specific for their purposes. Therefore, jurisdiction is a key issue in order to determine what laws, regulations, taxation or other concerns apply. As crimes are committed our society and economy pays the

As time progresses so does crime. With the advancement of technology and the development of various social media websites crime has evolved. At the time the Constitution was written our founding father could not have predicted the chances of crimes being committed via online websites. Because internet crimes are a fairly new phenomenon today’s government is now faced with both interpreting and analyzing the law, as well as determining whether or not certain actions preformed online are in violation of the United State’s law.

At its most elementary sense the traditional principles of contract formation are based on the concept of two humans meeting in person to agree to terms. However, that traditional concept does not take into account the now widely accepted analogous, online contracting.

Presently, there have been much development in computer technology; telecommunications, software and information technology areas that have resulted in the dynamic changing of the people’s living standards in an imaginable way. For instance, the ways people communicate is normally restricted because of existing constraints of geography and time. As such, this implies that information is often widely transmitted and received than ever before due to development in technology. Thusly, the business environment has become more flexible to accommodate the electronic contracts in terms of place, space, distance and payments. Generally, e-commerce is often associated with a form of business information, different products and services transmitted through computer networks. Therefore, with the rapid growth of e-commerce, there is a rapid advancement in the use of electronic contracts. However, the deployment of electronic contracts poses many challenges at three levels, which include conceptual, logical and implementation. Overall, this essay will examine the legal aspect of electronic contracts.

We enter into contracts every day. Taking a seat in the taxi amounts to entering into a contract. You go to a bar to drink some beers, you have entered a contract though we might not realise that we have entered into a contract. In the commercial world services and goods are normally purchased for resale or consumption. Usually the buyer and the seller will negotiate the terms of the purchase before they enter a transaction which will result in the sale. Trading involves financial risk therefore it is in the interest of all to have recognizable set of rules by which each party agrees and abides to. All business naturally deal with contracts, these contracts can either be unwritten or written. A contract is a legally binding

With the broad expansion of internet and its impact on individuals and entities that carries their business activity through electronic means is the development of what is called as Electronic Commerce. It has been envisaged that electronic commerce (E-commerce) provides benefits to Multi-National Enterprise, Small and medium size Enterprises and even individual people. So far as effectiveness of E-Commerce is concerned it is based on electronically made contracts known as Electronic Contracts. Accordingly, a new type of contract in international trade named electronic contract came into being. In simple terms, electronic contract is an agreement entered into by the parties through electronic means to ascertain the rights and

What is commonly called computer law actually refers to a myriad of connected concepts that exist in current case law, and said laws are subsequently applied to the claiming of intellectual rights for technologies of computer software, e-mail, security theorems and the Internet and other such networks.