How Law Made Silicon Valley (2014) https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1211&context=elj https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cg

How Law Made Silicon Valley (2014) https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1211&context=elj https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... presumably has been superseded (pointers appreciated) but points out some areas of law that made the US favorable to grow large internet companies relative to the EU, Japan, and South Korea -- IIRC more permissive and/or more certainty, sooner, concerning some areas of intellectual property, intermediary liability, and privacy.