The Internet greatly increases the ease of accessing, reproducing, and transmitting information.

Many governments and regulatory bodies in Asia are starting, or have started to, recognize the

economic potential of electronic commerce and are considering a number of policy initiatives

designed to encourage the development of electronic commerce.


We have to mention that this ease raises a host of legal issues including the risk of copyright

infringement, the protection of patent rights, and the validity and enforcement of agreements

entered into via the medium of the Internet.

Goverments of many countries in Asia moved with initiatives include attempts to overlook to

existing laws to deal with the emerging legal issues that electronic commerce raises.


Conflict of law issues is becoming increasingly evident that the process of mapping existing legal

concepts and tools into this new domain is not effective and number of familiar legal concepts

will need to be reengineer before they can be efficiently usefull in the new environment.