Legal Issues In The Network Information Dissemination

The Internet has been developing rapid since it came into being. The network in China grows also at very high speed since the Internet server was initialized at March 1994. According to the survey of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), there were only 620,000 Internet users in October 1997, however, the number of users reached 22,500,000 at the beginning of 2001; the domain names ending with .cn amount to 122,099; the number of web sites (ending with .cn, .com, .net, .org) has been 265,405 totally. Even though the Internet information industry is in the down turn, especially the .com stocks crashed, the amount of venture capital in the United States is still as high as 1,05 trillion dollars in the year 2000, which is more than the total of that in the last 15 years. The venture capital in the Internet industry in China also hits about 1 billion dollars. The role of the Internet in the information transmission is more and more impor- tant. According the survey, 68.84% of the Internet users surf with the goal to obtain information. Developing the Internet, 搖sing information to promote industrialization? has been a national strategy of China. However, the network does not only mean efficiency and justice. To realize the decentralization is the aim of network, so the first network users are reluctant to follow the regulations and administrations. The initial users are mostly high-tech workers. They use the network to transmit and share information friendly by following network eti- queue. The internet is not the Shangri-La. While the Internet provides a space the human being never had before, it also results in absolution liberalism and anarchism. With the development of commercial network, the Internet has been a part of the lives of the V common people. The lawsuits in the reality have surfed in the virtual world, such as fraud, fake advertisement, tort, defamation, pornography and etc. The development of the Internet needs regulation of law. The Internet must be put on the track of the standardization and institutionalization in order to solve the problems in the Internet. This is the possibility to make information society develop in ordered way. On the other hand, just like what Nicolas Negroponte said, 揟he law we have is like a fish breaths desperately on the deck because the digital world is a total different place. The most of the laws are designed for the atomic world instead for the bite world.? It has been difficult challenges for the jurist to adapt the current laws in the Internet environment, and to establish adaptive legal system for the digital technology. The developed countries in network information industry, such as the US and EU, have accumulated many experiences in the legislation and justice. They are using huge economic powers to push their own standard to secure and expand their leading positions. At the same time, the network information industry in China has to explore its way with vague regulation, or even without law and regulations. Although the demand on the legislation for network is high, the corresponding research has not been done thoroughly. Some areas are even left blank. It leaves legislation without a profound theoretical foundation. In this scenario, the author chose 揟he Research on the Intellectual Properties Law in the Network Information Transmission?as her dissertation for the doctor degree.