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*Note: Two interesting books on these subjects include Lawrence Lessig's Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace AND Lessig's Code, v. 2January 23
Introduction/Freedom of ExpressionJanuary 28
Freedom of Expression
Lessons 40-45 AND 48-53 (Free Speech) on the Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers site at www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp01.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp02.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp03.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp04.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp05.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp06.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp09.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp10.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp11.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp12.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp13.htmlJanuary 30
Freedom of Expression
Lessons 54-65 (Free Speech) on the Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers site at www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp14.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp15.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp16.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp17.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp18.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp19.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp20.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp21.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp22.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp23.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp24.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp25.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp26.htmlFebruary 4
Freedom of Expression
Cyberspeech: First Amendment Analysis in a New Place, found online at http://www.lclark.edu/~loren/cyberlaw99/projects/onartohara.html
February 6
Freedom of Expression
Teens' Online Postings Are New Tool for Police by Wendy Davis.
Hypothetical Assignment 1 due! Details here
February 11
Regulation
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, found online here
February 13
Regulation
Spam Wars: The Ongoing Battle Against Junk E-Mail by Jack Germain.
AND, CAN-SPAM a year later by Deborah Fallows. Read pages 1-7.
February 18
Regulation
The End of the Internet? By Jeff ChesterFebruary 20
Libel
Lessons 32-39 (Libel Law) on the Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers site at http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe01.html
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe02.html
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe03.html
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe04.html
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe05.html
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe06.html
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe07.html
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe08.htmlFebruary 25
Libel
Libel Law in Cyberspace (Zeran v. America Online, Inc.) found online at www.cyberspacelaw.org/easton/easton6.htmlFebruary 27
Libel
Troubling Global Trends Emerging in Online Defamation
AND Student's MySpace Rant is Protected Speech, Says Court by Chris Maxcer
March 3
LibelMarch 5
Midterm exam!
Here is a review guide for this exam.
Graduate students only! Here are the details for your final paper assignment.March 10-16
Spring break!March 17
Privacy
Lessons 13-25 (Privacy Law) on the Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers site at http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv01.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv02.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv03.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv04.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv05.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv06.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv07.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv08.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv09.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv10.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv11.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv12.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/priv13.htmlMarch 19
Privacy
Big Business Becoming Big Brother by Kim Zetter
AND Worker privacy: you have none by Joanna Glasner
AND Should the Government Have Access to Personal E-Mails? by John P. Mello Jr.
AND, browse the Electronic Privacy Information Center web siteMarch 24
Privacy
The Surveillance Society, by Adam Penenberg, found online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/surveillance.html
AND With technology growing, our privacy is shrinking by Stephen KobrinMarch 26
Privacy
The talk of the town: You by Mark Williams
AND Facebook's advertising system provokes questions about how companies share data by Erica Naone
AND Why 'Anonymous' Data Sometimes Isn't by Bruce Schneier
Optional Reading The Increasing Complexity of the New Spyware Landscape by Robert ScadutoMarch 31
Privacy
Hypothetical Assignment 2 due! Details hereApril 2
Privacy
Satellite Imagery: The Ethics of a New Technology by Adam Clayton Powell, III found in the "Additional Readings" section on Blackboard
AND What Your Phone Knows About You by Kate Greene
AND US and UK have become "endemic" surveillance societies by Nate AndersonApril 7
Copyright/Intellectual Property
Lessons 2-12 (Copyright Law) on the Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers site at http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr01.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr02.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr03.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr04.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr05.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr06.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr07.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr08.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr09.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr10.html http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/copyr11.htmlApril 9
Copyright/Intellectual Property
Cultivating the Public Domain
AND Legal Concepts from Creative CommonsApril 14
Copyright/Intellectual Property
Digital Millennium Copyright Act Overview at http://www.gseis.uc la.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
AND Copyright -- or wrong? by Janelle Brown available online at http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/07/22/scientology/
AND Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA
AND Digital Content Protection Act would be consumer disaster by Andrew KantorApril 16
Copyright/Intellectual Property
Licensed to Bill, by Jeff Howe, found online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.10/drm.html
AND May the Source be With You, by Lawrence Lessig, found online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/lessig.html
AND Dig Deep to Get the Truth About File Sharing by Jon Newton
AND Does File Sharing Hurt the Music Biz? by Nate Anderson
AND Federal judge: Making files available for download = distribution by Eric Bangeman
AND RIAA Believes MP3s Are A Crime: Why This Matters - Updated by Ryan Singel
Optional Readings Music and video downloading moves beyond P2P by Mary Madden and Lee Rainie
AND Webcasting Royalties: A Modest Proposal by Eliot Van Buskirk
AND The Tipping Jar: Does Radiohead's Internet release of its latest album tell us anything about the future of the music business? by Larry HardestyApril 21
Obscenity
Hypothetical assignment 3 due! Details here
Lessons 46-47 (Speech and Sex) on the Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers site at www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp07.html
www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/fresp08.htmlApril 23
Obscenity
Excerpt from "Not in Front of the Children:' Indecency,' Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth" By Marjorie HeinsApril 28
Obscenity
Porno for Rugrats, by Dawn MacKeen, available online at http://www.salon.com/mwt/hot/1997/12/09hot.html
AND, The Morality Police by Charles Taylor.
AND, Too much sex or too much law? by Paul K. McMasters, a brief, clear summary of online obscenity law (COPA).April 30
Obscenity
May 5
Course wrap-up
The study guide for the second exam can be found here
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