O presente artigo analisa a aplicabilidade do direito aos contratos de consumo concluídos pela internet sob perspectiva da União Europeia. Inicia-se introduzindo noções sobre o internacional privado europeu e os consumo. Procura-se destacar como ponto central análise uniformização no que diz respeito ao assunto. Nesta parte, destaca-se pode ocorrer um conflito entre regras jurídicas, levando di...

Today, the global system is formed based on multilateralism, which is based on international relations and the origin of international organizations and institutions. But this matter is endangered by the unilateralism pursued by the United States of America. Coercive unilateral measures such as sanctions, threats, military intervention, and even measures such as withdrawal from international tr...

When Internet was developed, the founding fathers of Internet hardly had any inclination that Internet could transform itself into an all pervading revolution which could be misused for criminal activities and which required regulation. Today, there are many disturbing things happening in cyberspace. The effect of cyber violence is more damaging than traditional bullying and has longer lasting ...

This paper proposes a flexible architecture for the creation of Internet auctions. It allows the custom definition of the auction parameters, and provides a decentralized control of the auction process. Auction policies are defined as laws in the Law Governed Interaction (LGI) paradigm. Each of these laws specifies not only the auction algorithm itself (e.g. open-cry, dutch, etc.) but also how ...

Terry Jones and Mary Norris are with Wiggin & Dana LLP in New Haven, CT. Ms. Norris practices intellectual property and general business law, with particular emphasis on information technology, artistic, and copyright and trademark licensing, e-commerce and Internet issues, and publishing in all media, in the United States and abroad. She is chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Gr...

Traditional “traceability” (the flipside idea to “anonymity”) on the Internet attempts to identify the IP address that caused an action to occur. This is sufficient for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to take action against the authorized user of that IP address. Law enforcement agencies usually need to go beyond this in order to identify the individual concerned. However, shared accounts, u...

In our digitally connected world, the law is arguably behind the technological developments of the Internet age. While this causes many issues for law enforcement, it is of particular concern in the area of child pornography in the United States. With the wide availability of technologies such as digital cameras, peer-to-peer file sharing, strong encryption, Internet anonymizers and cloud compu...