JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES, CONFLICT OF LAWS OR ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES THAT RELATED TO THE INFRINGEMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Abstract

The Internet has revolutionized not only every-day life, but also showed the need to redefine many legal terms, including some of the key ones, considered so far as fully sufficient to describe and explain international relations. One of the key categories, that demands alterations, is the idea of statehood. Such a need results from the fact of the territorial character of states, as they are defined, among others, through a territorially established international space, that can be physically placed and described. In the very opposition to “territorially” regulated state relations, the cyberspace is defined as “aterritorial”. Therefore, regarding the limitlessness of the Internet, its aterritoriality and its common presence, the intellectual property rights in their traditional sense, or, to be more particular, its territorially described context of regulating social and international relations, needs to be verified or amended in respect of the new electronic dominium.