TWiL on ecommerce

The latest episode of Ian Ballon as a guest and discusses the latest in electronic commerce or "Internet Law". The episode starts off with a brief discussion about what it means to have "ecommerce" or "internet" as a type of law. John Palfrey brought up the Posner opinion that it doesn't really make sense to designate certain types of law by subject area (like "horse law"). Posner argues that it's all just "law", and then applied to different areas of business or life. I like that issue because it reminds me when I speak to podcasters, I have to remind them that there are very few new laws at work in podcasting. But the questions about how the existing law will apply to a new technology is what lawyers in these fields need to grapple with. This episode is really a great listen, as Ian literally wrote the book on the field of "internet law".