Digital Trade

Over at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, Luke Peterson talks about the investment aspects of the Chinese PC filtering issue.  He notes: One critical question in any claims arising out of this internet-filtering software dispute would be the expectations that investors had upon entering the Chinese market. For instance, it has

The Economist mentions an interesting new detail about China's efforts to have all personal computers sold in China come with filtering software called Green Dam Youth Escort: An American firm, Solid Oak Software, claims Green Dam includes stolen copyrighted code from one of its products, and has launched

At the Huffington Post, Michael Santoro and Wendy Goldberg make the case to the incoming Obama team for Chinese internet censorship to be treated as a trade barrier: Almost all discussion of the harm done by China's strict censorship of the Internet focuses around its human rights implications.

From the AP: The rising popularity of markets where guesses are wagered on the outcome of everything from presidential elections to celebrity marriages has led to a situation that, well, many had predicted. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday said it is considering whether these markets should be regulated,

I've mentioned before some suggestions in the U.S. that internet censorship be treated as a trade barrier (see here and here).  Now the EU is getting into the act as well: The European Parliament recently passed a proposal to treat Internet censorship by repressive regimes as a

It has been clearly established that online gambling is within the WTO's jurisdiction. Now some want to expand the WTO's role in internet matters even further. The Associated Press reports: Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight