Law, Business, and Society,
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,Table of Contents are given below
1. Capitalism and the Role of Government
2. Business Ethics
3. The Corporation and Public Policy Expanding Responsibilities
4. The American Legal System
5. Constitutional Law and the Bill of Rights
6. Contracts
7. Business Torts and Product Liability
8. Government Regulation of Business
9. Business Organizations and Securities Regulation
10. Antitrust Law—Restraints of Trade
11. Antitrust Law—Monopolies and Mergers
12. Employment Law I Employee Rights
13. Employment Law II Discrimination
14. Employment Law III Labor–Management Relations
15. Consumer Protection
16. International Ethics and Law
17. Environmental Protection
18. Internet Law and Ethics
,Solutions Manual organized in reverse order, with the last chapter displayed first, to ensure
that all chapters are included in this document. (Complete Chapters included Ch18-1)
Chapter 18
Internet Law and Ethics
Chapter Goals
The primary goal of this chapter is explore some of the current, ongoing, and emerging challenges facing the full
spectrum of entities (public or private, for-profit or non-profit) in their use of the Internet, as well as highlighting a few
businesses that exist solely because of the Internet (for example, social networks and cryptocurrencies). We will
consider also explore the perspectives of individuals in their dealings via the Internet with those entities.
Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, students will be able to fulfill the following learning objectives:
1. Be able to identify some of the ongoing and emerging challenges for businesses in their use of the
Internet.
2. Be able to describe some of the limitations of work produced by generative A.I. and steps that can
be taken to correct for those limitations.
3. Explain the term digital sovereignty with respect to the jurisdiction to legislate and give examples.
4. Identify the three foundational laws governing the Internet in the EU and be able to describe the
primary purpose of each of them.
5. Be able to compare and contrast the legal frameworks governing the Internet in the EU and in the
U.S.
6. Be able to apply the requirements of personal jurisdiction to a dispute arising in cyberspace, both
where the parties are residents of different states and where they are residents of different
countries.
7. Identify free speech issues that arise in the context of the Internet and present the competing
interests that make each particular issue difficult to resolve.
8. Provide examples of online activities that raise privacy concerns and be able to identify those
concerns.
9. Explain the differences in online privacy protection among the federal law of the U.S., California’s
specific laws, and those of the EU.
10. Describe several Internet-related crimes - including ransomware, data theft, and control of physical
assets - and identify how to protect against them.
11. Be able to classify specific items of property associated with the Internet as either real property or
personal property, and either tangible property or intangible property.
12. Be able to explain what a stablecoin is and distinguish it from an asset-backed stablecoin, as well
as how they both differ from other cryptocurrencies.
13. Be able to identify ways in which the Internet is dependent on the protection provided by patent,
copyright, and trademarks.
14. Explain the trademark issues affecting e-commerce facilitators like eBay.
15. Be able to describe the tax implications of mining, receiving, and spending cryptocurrencies.
16. Discuss several ethical issues raised by social media.
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Chapter Outline
I. Introduction: The Internet and Globalization
By its very nature, the Internet is a rapidly evolving space. It is also a unique and complex space for a
number of reasons:
• It is potentially accessible by any person in the world:
• According to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations specialized agency for
information and communication technologies, as of November 2021, 4.9 billion people had used
the Internet, or 63 percent of the population.1 Ninety-six percent of the 2.9 billion who have not
been online live in developing countries. The largest annual percentage increase in the number of
users occurred in the first year of the pandemic.2
• Not surprisingly, the least developed countries have the lowest percentage of usage, and the
women in those countries have a lower percentage of usage than the men, 27 percent compared
to 30 percent.3
• Some countries have put in place measures to restrict access beyond their national boundaries. As of
this writing, China and North Korea have the most stringent controls. Iran, Myanmar, Turkmenistan, and
the United Arab Emirates also exert substantial controls.4
• Every country can potentially develop standards that apply to residents of thethat country, which
means, for the most part, most individuals will be most highly impacted by the laws of the country in which
they reside. In the EU, the most powerful laws are those enacted by the European Parliament, but there
may be national laws that also apply. In the U.S., federal laws are often supplemented by more stringent
state laws, in addition to state laws governing areas in which Congress has not acted.
Where does all this leave businesses? They are left with the challenge of complying with the laws of all of
the states and nations in which they operate. This may affect more businesses than you might initially
realize. According to the International Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), “about 70% of international trade today involves global value chains (GVCs), as services, raw
materials, parts, and components cross borders–often numerous times. Once incorporated into final
products they are shipped to consumers all over the world.”5
Part One—The Market, Law, and Ethics
By the end of the 1980s, a backbone system of networked computers had been created and e-mail use
reached the general public. In the mid-1990s, the first browser was released, and the World Wide Web
was born. Originally, it was an open-access forum only lightly touched by regulation. The exponential growth in
users and uses arguably has now created the most diverse community imaginable—nearly as diverse as the human
race itself. Unfortunately, along with volume and diversity come conflicting interests and disputes. No existing judicial
or legislative body, however, has obvious or natural jurisdiction over the Internet in its entirety.
Practicing Ethics ChatGPT and Other Generative A.I.
As this is being written, ChatGPT, a creation of OpenAI, is the first readily accessible generative artificial intelligence
(A.I.) tool on the market. Like the initial releases of other technology, improvements will come. But people are already
taking it out for a test drive to see what it can, and cannot (at least not yet), do. Examples tried, albeit not necessarily
successfully, include composing an entire song, making a logo, and writing an entire book in one day. Others have
used it to write homework assignments with and without permission by the instructor.
The “with” permission submissions have come from instructors who are themselves experimenting with
ways AI can aid in the educational process. One high school English teacher in Oregon had the class use
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