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International Internet Law Suffers Growing Pains

By Jonathan Bick
January 31, 2014

In November, a European court ruling forced an American Internet service provider to remove content from servers located in the U.S. and block the transfer of content to European and Asian users. See, Mosley v. Google (Tribunal de Grande Instance, Paris, Nov. 6, 2013). This ruling resulted from the Internet search results of an Englishman who asserted that his French Internet privacy rights make it illegal to distribute Internet images of an individual in a private space without that person's permission.

In international Internet matters, legal difficulties abound while the law languishes. The societal and economic impact of the Internet has been visible since the beginning of the 1990s, as evidenced by the change in human rights and international economic and institutional policies instigated by the Internet. Yet, despite the current problems involving the administration of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and the various nation states' efforts to claim domestic jurisdiction over Internet content, few bilateral treaties addressing the Internet have been executed.

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