Domain Names And Trade Marks - Two Worlds Collide

In the brave new Internet world, the old business models are being cast aside to create the new electronic economy. Many have thought that the Internet is an unregulated wilderness, a sort of electronic wild west, where old laws do not exist and cannot be enforced. This is a myth, as events are starting to show. Over the past twelve months, many legal issues relating to the Internet have surfaced: pornography, libel, copyright, data protection and financial services regulation are all starting to impact on the evolving e-economy. Politicians and law enforcement officers, their concern often ignited by rather inflammatory reporting by the mass media, are struggling with applying established rules and regulations to the Internet.