Social Policy Choices and Choice of Law for Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace

This article explores the role of the "territoriality thesis" in copyright law from the perspective of copyright's role in the regulatory state, focusing on differences in approaches to copyright issues withing different national legal systems. These differences implicate the role of copyright in shaping domestic information policy, including access to the materials of culture. Suggestions by US scholars to depart from the territoriality of copyright law are scrutinized in the light of these issues