CNET has a Story that covers all the latest in the never ending world of internet lawsuits. Some of these cases challenge the very Existence of the Web
\”It all depends on how broadly the opinion is written,\” said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. \”If an opinion is quite broad, it would interfere with a lot of things on the Web. But I don\’t think it\’s likely that a court would issue such an opinion.\”
CNET has a Story that covers all the latest in the never ending world of internet lawsuits. Some of these cases challenge the very Existence of the Web
\”It all depends on how broadly the opinion is written,\” said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. \”If an opinion is quite broad, it would interfere with a lot of things on the Web. But I don\’t think it\’s likely that a court would issue such an opinion.\”
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