International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society

Cyberlaw is a new phenomenon that has emerged since the advent of the internet, which burst onto the scene in a completely unplanned and unregulated manner. Even the inventors of internet could not have anticipated the sheer scope and far reaching consequences of cyberspace, which has grown at an unprecedented rate. The emergence of cyberspace as a new 'environment' that people can inhabit has created various legal challenges and difficulties. New issues are cropping up all the time. In response to these newly emerging legal issues relating to cyberspace, cyberlaw - or the law of internet - has emerged.

Cyberlaw applies many areas of law to computers and the online environment, including intellectual property, contracts, freedom of speech, privacy, and public access to information, defamation and tort law and jurisdictional issues.