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Required Readings:
All of the required course materials may be found on the web. Links to the Required Readings are provided below.  You may review these on-line, you may save them to a disk or hard drive and read them on your computer at a later time, or you may print them out to read them.  Note that if you save the files and then read them in edit mode, you can make generally make notes right in the document itself.  Printing in the law library on the inkjet printers is free but time-consuming and cumbersome.  Printing on the laser printers in the Computer Center or at Bierce is also free, and faster, however they request that you limit your print jobs to 15 pages at a time.  Obviously, this is less of a concern when they are not busy.

For Further Exploration:
In addition to specific documents to read for each topic, I have also provided links to web sites which deal generally with the subject matter, as well as optional reading materials.

Reserve materials:
While there is no casebook or general text assigned, there are some background materials which you may find helpful.

Links:
Finally, I have provided links to internet law and general law-related sites for background.  And, like any self-respecting web site author, I have include links to a short list of favorite sites that I like.
 

Readings

Class	Topic	Assignment
Week 1	Introduction	No Assignment
Week 2 Sep. 2	What Is The Internet?	Required: ACLU v. Reno, 929 F. Supp. 824 (E.D.Pa. 1996) (Especially the Findings of Fact) Perritt, What is the Internet?   A Brief History of the Internet (1997)
		For Further Exploration: Digital Citizen, WIRED Dec. 97, Issue 5.12  World Wide Web Consortium [W3C] Backgrounder  Life on the Internet: Netiquette  Introduction to the Information Society: The European Way
Week 3 Sep. 9	E-Commerce	Required: A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce (Especially Part II, Legal Issues) The Next Economy? [DRAFT!]  A 13-Step Internet Program Student Presentation Overview Focus on GATT/WTO
		For Further Exploration: The Emerging Digital Economy (4/15)  "The Information Economy: How much will two bits be worth in the digital marketplace?"
Week 4 Sep. 16	Copyright	Required: Hardy, Project Looking Forward (PDF) (Read the Executive Summary, Part 4.4 on intermediaries' liability, and pp. 259-276 on decentralized infringement; the rest is background.) Religious Technology Center v Netcom 907 F.Supp 1361 (NDCa 1995) Sega v. Maphia 857 F.Supp 679 (NDCa 1994) Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure, or "White Paper" (PDF) (Focus especially on "Background" and "Recommendations") Samuelson, The Copyright Grab Student Presentation  Overview: Copyright and ISP Liability   Litman Article: Review and Responses  For Further Exploration: U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 1 "Copyright Basics"  Boyle, Intellectual Property Policy On-Line: A Young Person's Guide Barlow, Selling Wine Without Bottles Litman, Revising Copyright for the Digital Age
Week 5 Sep. 23	Trademarks and Domain Names	Required: Panavision Int'l v. Toeppen (C.D. Cal. 1996) Planned Parenthood Federation of America v. Bucci (S.D.N.Y. 1997) Shetland Times Ltd. v. Wills (Scotland 1996) Loundy, A Primer on Trademark Law and Internet Addresses This Just In:  Final Draft of Domain Name Plan Released Student Presentation  Outline (No longer available) For Further Exploration: Management of Internet Names and Addresses (White Paper, June 1998) Network Solutions' Domain Name Dispute Policy  Trademark Issues in Cyberspace Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Trademarks
Week 6 Sep. 30	Personal Jurisdiction	Required: Cybersell v. Cybersell 130 F.3d 414 (9th Cir. 1997) Minnesota v. Granite Gate Resorts (Minn. Ct. App. Sept. 5, 1997) Jurisdiction Over Commerce On The Internet  Minnesota AG Memo Student Presentation  Outline  For Further Exploration: Post, Law And Borders--The Rise of Law in Cyberspace  Bensusan Restaurant Corp. v. Richard B. King (2d Cir. 1997) Hall v. LaRonde (Cal Ct. App. 1997)
Week 7 Oct. 7	Y2K	Required: Fed Battles Bug to Save Economy Wired, 5/8/98  Millennium bugging out salon 21st  OMB Report (browse) The start of Y2K lawsuit rush? Liability Analysis Lawsuits  Countdown For Y2K Bills Wired, 8/27/98  Will Your Pacemaker Stop Working?  Student Presentation  Technical Overview   Liability Issues  For Further Exploration: Gary North's Y2K Links (the Doomsday view) H.R. 4455 and The President's Proposal President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion  The Y2K Law Site  The Year 2000 Information Center
Week 8 Oct. 14	Microsoft	Required: Microsoft Brief in Support of Summary Judgment 08.10.98 DOJ Response to Summary Judgment Motion 08.31.98 Bill Gates, Who Decides What Innovations Go Into Your PC?  Slate - The Microsoft Menace - Oct. 29, 1997  Required to buy Microsoft Windows  Explanation of Antitrust Law  Student Presentation:  Outline  For Further Exploration: CPT's (Anti-)Microsoft Antitrust Page (Anti-)Microsoft White Paper  Declaration of Economist, Kenneth J. Arrow  Antitrust and the Internet Standardization Problem  Microsoft Press Information Page  DOJ Microsoft Documents Page  The LJX Files  FindLaw: Microsoft
Week 9 Oct. 21	Privacy and Anonymity	Required: Privacy Online FTC Report to Congress, 4/98  Kang, Cyberspace Privacy (Introduction, Part I, and Appendix) ACLU of Georgia v. Miller Anonymity and Its Enmities DILBERT ZONE | about the dilbert zone The Privacy Partnership and TRUSTe, the self-regulation solution (browse) Student Presentation:  Outline  For Further Exploration: The Electronic Privacy Information Center  CDT Privacy Issues Page  EPIC REPORT - "Surfer Beware: Personal Privacy and the Internet"
Week 10 Oct. 28	Cryptography	Required: Washington Post Encryption Summary Page Bernstein v. U.S., 945 F. Supp. 1279  Junger v. Daley (N.D. Ohio): Opinion and Order 7/2/98 Froomkin, The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, The Clipper Chip, and the Constitution  (Parts I.A, IV, and Technical Appendix) Student Presentation:  Outline   Glossary  For Further Exploration: The Risks Of "Key Recovery," "Key Escrow," And "Trusted Third-Party" Encryption | 1998 Center for Democracy and Technology Encryption is Essential to Freedom
Week 11 Nov. 4	Censorship	Required: Reno v. ACLU (June 26, 1997) Child Online Protection Act (CDA II) ACLU: Internet Censorship, Round Two  S. 1619, Internet Filtering Systems  Mainstream Loudoun v. Loudoun County Libraries  (April 7, 1998)  The CyberSitter Diaper Change Lessig, Tyranny in the Infrastructure WIRED 5.07,   July 1997 Student Presentation:  Outline  For Further Exploration: ACLU White Paper: Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning? ALA v. Pataki (state law violates dormant Commerce Clause) Kathleen R. v. City of Livermore (Oct. 21, 1998)(failure to filter not a nuisance) EPIC Censorware Page Cyber Patrol
Week 12 Nov. 11	Spam	Required: Salon 21st | The war for your e-mail box  CAUCE: About The Problem  Cyber Promotions v. America Online CompuServe v. Cyber Promotions Spam king retires  H.R. 1748  H.R. 3888  Student Presentation:  Outline  Outline II For Further Exploration: Join the Fight Against Spam! Ohio Revised Code sections 2913.01-04  Washington House Bill 2752 (1998)
Week 13 Nov. 18	Governance	Required -- Choose ONE of the following to read in its entirety -- browse the others: Johnson & Post, Law Without Borders, 48 Stan. L. Rev. 1367 (1996)  Burk, Federalism in Cyberspace, 28 Conn. L. Rev. 1095 (1996)  Lessig, The Law of the Horse Student Presentation:  Outline For Further Exploration: Nov/Dec 98: The Web's Unelected Government  ICANN Press Release 06 November 1998  Agre, The Internet and Public Discourse
Week 14 Dec. 2	Summary	Opinion in Loudoun Library Filtering Case, 11/23/98  Virginia library moves against Net filters   Hacktivists disable China's Firewalls   Nuclear stockpile faces 2000 threat   U.S. vs. Microsoft -- Day 22   Netscapesucks.com asked to cease and desist   U.S. offers plan for meeting EU privacy law   CNET News.com - U.S. to hand over Net administration

 Reserve Materials

Not yet on reserve at the library:
    Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace
    CyberLaw
    Cyberspace and the Law

 Links

Internet Law

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
• The New York Times CyberLaw Journal Links
• WIRED
• BNA's Electronic Commerce and Law Report
• Cyberspace Law Subject Index
• Oppedahl & Larson Patent Law Web Server

General Law-Related Sites

• FindLaw:  Internet Legal Resources
• Oyez Oyez Oyez
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Legal Information Institute
• Net Law Library
• GPO Access
• Law Journal EXTRA!

Some Fun

•  Measure Your Implicit Attitudes (As promised.)
•  The Ultimate Prosperity Page
•  ALA Great Sites For Kids
•  Jon Carroll
•  Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall
•  Corbis
•  Electronic Civil Disobedience
•  How to Keep an Idiot Busy

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