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the law in cyberspace

Kevin Lipsitz of Krazy Kevin's Magazine Club and Tempting Tear-Outs thought he had found a great way to drum up subscriptions to the periodicals he sold: send out a massive quantity of e-mail spam. Orders did come in, but Lipsitz soon found himself the defendant in consumer-fraud case as customers complained that they never got the merchandise they paid for. This article from the New York Times uses the case a jumping-off point for a discussion of a discussion of the legal conundrums that often arise from the nebulous world of e-commerce. Exactly whose laws are an e-business subject to, when the seller's headquartered in San Francisco and the buyer's based in Beijing? This is an issue that all e-commerce businessespeople will be forced to face sooner or later, so it's best to get in the loop now.

Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:35:03 -0800