Life in the Network

I had a class about copyright laws last year and I did not imagine it would be so complicated. I have to admit I forgot half of it right now, but I was amazed by the number of different cases and the precision with which everything is planned (after all, it is of course normal and reassuring).
Reading the article, I remembered about the difficulty of that class and that our teacher told us that many details change in different countries. With Internet, the notion of countries is so flouted that I wonder how this can work. If a French person breaks a copyright of an American brand, will he be judged under the French law or this American one? (I actually don't know, and the teacher told that these kind of conflicts can last years just because of fights between lawyers.

Before getting into the articles and the CC website, I was thinking that every laws concerning these subjects should be actualised because many of them were written such a long time ago. If everything did not change, I was happy to see the principle of Creative Commons and that people try to deal with the new technologies in an interesting way, and not always trying to repress more and more Internet users. A domain where the changes have affected very much an industry is music and I think that this industry should completely re-think its way of functionning instead of blaming and threatening people online. I don't want to get to deep into this because I think we'll talk about it next week.

Anyway, I don't have the answer of how the copyright should evolve in the future but I strongly believe that many laws should be adapted to the new technologies, and people should start realizing that Internet is not only a threat to the products they invented but also a great way to involve them, collectively.