Laws and codes for the Internet: a continental European legal perspective
Laws and codes for the Internet: a continental European legal perspective
Fernando Galindo.
Faculty of Law
University of Zaragoza
Lessig directs himself primarily to American users of the Internet and this clearly affects the value of his work outwith the US. His work suggests to these users that some Laws are precise and can be applied to the Internet so that the Internet functions well rather than displaying a constant fight amongst its users. However Lessig thinks that the mere translation of the Constitution (he concentrates upon Constitutional matters rather than wider legislative matters) by jurists is not enough to develop solutions to all legal problems of the Internet: new problems exist whose solutions cannot be found through legal decisions made through the traditional legal route – new norms must be arrived at in a different manner.
This paper, however, will argue that Lessig’s US-oriented view is not going to contribute to European jurists basic strategies to solve the practical problems that the use of the Internet and the Information and Communication Technologies create.
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