The Digital Wild West and the Importance of Intellectual Property Law
It is hard to know who coined the term Digital Wild West. It is clear, however, that the term is a good description for the state of the World Wide Web (WWW, or “web”) today. Similar to the American “Wild West” in the latter half of the 19th century, the web still has a frontier. Its outer limits are unknown.
The web and our use of it are still changing and evolving. More people are accessing the internet and using the web than ever before. World internet usage grew over 1,167 percent between the years 2000 and 2020.1 Many different devices can access the internet, which has led to a new term, the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT refers generally to the devices that collect ...
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