You know it’s only a matter of time before governments begin regulating the search industry. Yale Law School is banking on it, holding a symposium next month to discuss the implications of the emerging online marketplace.
Legal matters surrounding the indexing of information have been in rapid ascent lately. Google is constantly sued anymore by publishers and other fearful parties. The problem in courts, however, as been a relative lack of Internet case law and legislation, causing many cases to be dismissed for lack of these cornerstones.
But there is little doubt that the next hot area of law will be intellectual property, especially as it pertains to the Internet and the digital age.
Yale’s academic conference, to be held on December 3rd, will pull from experts in “the search industry, government, civil society, and academia to discuss the emerging intersection of search engines and various forms of regulation.”
The questions the symposium will address: “How will this potential to wield control affect search engine companies, their advertisers, their users, or the information they index? What will search engines look like in the future, and what is the role of regulators in this emerging market?”
Interested parties can register
here.
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