"Most Counts As "Total When Blocking Websites In Mexico

With authors' works of arts often being made freely available online, laws have had to be updated to maintain necessary protection. Luis Schmidt, OLIVARES, investigates a selection of cases that stood in front of the Supreme Court in Mexico about website blocking that have thus impacted the future of copyright law in the country.

The web connects virtual space, where information flows and spreads around to reach all the people. Neutrality is the principle steering the web, which states that the flow of information cannot be affected, limited, or suspended; but, as a last source, in order to protect human rights, before pondering opposing interests.

The web can be viewed as an online community, living apart from the off-line, as it follows a rule of its own. While the off-line community has evolved from a systematized legal framework, the on-line community has developed from the notion of neutrality.