Syllabus: Internet Law 2006

Brooklyn Law School

Introduction

August 24, 2006
Assignment

• John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996) <http://www.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html>
• Lawrence Lessig, The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 501 (1999), pages 501-511, <http://www.lessig.org/content/articles/works/finalhls.pdf> (first 10 pages)

Online Speech and How to Stop It

August 31, 2006
Assignment

• Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) (excerpts)
• United States v. American Library Association, 539 U.S. 194 (2003) (excerpts)
• CDT fact sheet on CDT v. Pappert, 337 F.Supp.2d 606 (E.D. Penn. 2004), <http://www.cdt.org/speech/pennwebblock/20040915highlights.pdf>
• BoingBoing banned in UAE, Qatar, elsewhere, BoingBoing.net, February 27, 2006
• Social Network Sites, Blogs, Wikis Fret Over Proposed Regulation, TechWeb, August 2, 2006

• Hobbes’ Internet Timeline, <http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/>
  
• RFC 1958: Architectural Principles of the Internet, <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1958.txt>
  
• J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark, End-to-End Arguments in System Design (1981), <http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf>
  
• Jonathan Zittrain, Internet Points of Control, 44 B.C.L.Rev. 653 (2003), <http://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/what_things.pdf>
  
• Lawrence Lessig, What Things Regulate Speech? 38 Jurimetrics 629 (1998) <http://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/what_things.pdf>
  

Who rules the Net?

September 7, 2006
Assignment

• Jonathan Zittrain, Jurisdiction
• Cybersell, Inc. v. Cybersell, Inc., 130 F.3d 414 (9th Cir. 1997) (excerpt)
• Zippo Mfg. Co. v. Zippo Dot Com. Inc., 952 F. Supp. 1119 (W.D. Pa.1997) (excerpt)
• Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et l'Antisemitisme, 433 F.3d 1199 (9th Cir. 2006)(excerpt: background only)
• Dow Jones & Co. Inc. v. Gutnick, [2002] HCA 56 (10 December 2002), High Court of Australia (excerpt)
• Law And Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, David R. Johnson and David G. Post, 48 Stanford Law Review 1367 (1996) (excerpt)
• ICANN, a solution or another problem?: browse <http://www.icann.org>
• Sharon Eisner Gillett and Mitchell Kapor, The Self-governing Internet: Coordination by Design, <http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP197/CCSWP197.html>

Speech: Too Much or Not Enough

September 14, 2006
Assignment

• Cubby, Inc. v. Compuserve Inc., 776 F.Supp. 135 (S.D.N.Y. 1991)
• Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Servs Co., 1995 N.Y. Misc. Lexis 229 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. May 24, 1995)
• CDA § 230, 47 USC § 230 (1996)
• Zeran v. America Online, 129 F.3d 327 (4th Cir. 1997)
• Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F.Supp. 44 (D.D.C. 1998)
• Doe v. 2TheMart.com, 140 F. Supp. 2d 1088 (W.D.Wash. 2001)
• Columbia Ins. Co. v. Seescandy.com, 185 F.R.D. 573 (N.D. Cal. 1999)
  

For further reading (optional):

• Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Silencing John Doe: Defamation & Discourse in Cyberspace, 49 Duke L. J. 855 (2000) <http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dlj/articles/dlj49p855.htm>
• EFF, Blogging Anonymously, <http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php>

Content, Sharing, Copyright

September 21, 2006
Assignment

• Playboy Enterprises v. Webbworld, 991 F.Supp. 543 (N.D.Tex. 1997)
• MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511 (9th Cir. 1993)
• Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp., 336 F.3d 811 (9th Cir. 2003)
• The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, October 2004
• Creative Commons, <http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/>
• Grey Tuesday, see <http://www.greytuesday.org/> and <http://www.eff.org/IP/grey_tuesday.php>
• The Google Library Controversy:
  • Google Books Library Project
  • Search and Rescue, Tim O'Reilly, New York Times op-ed, September 28, 2005
  • Not at the Writers' Expense, Nick Taylor, Washington Post op-ed, October 22, 2005

• Pamela Samuelson, Copyright Grab, 4.01 WIRED 135 (1996), http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/white.paper.html
• John Perry Barlow, The Economy of Ideas, Wired, July 1995, <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas_pr.html>
• Jessica Litman, The Exclusive Right to Read, 13 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 29 (1994) <http://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/papers/read.htm>
• Jane Ginsburg, From Having Copies to Experiencing Works: The Development of an Access Right in U.S. Copyright Law, 50 J. Copyr. Soc. 113 (2003)

Licensing and Open Source

September 28, 2006
Assignment

• Shrinkwrap: Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software, Ltd., 847 F.2d 255 (5th Cir. 1988)
  
• ProCD v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996)
  
• Browsewrap: Specht v. Netscape, 306 F.3d 17 (2d Cir. 2001)
  
• Free Software: GNU General Public License (GPL)
  
• Creative Commons: Commons Deed and Legal Code to Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
  
• Free Software Foundation, Philosophy of the GNU Project
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond

For further reading (optional):

• Yochai Benkler, Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm, 112 Yale L.J. (2002)
• Jessica Litman, Sharing and Stealing, 26 Comm/Ent 1 (2004)
• Mark Lemley, Beyond Preemption: The Federal Law and Policy of Intellectual Property Licensing, 87 Cal. L.Rev. 111 (1999)
• "The Simple Economics of Open Source" Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, Journal of Industrial Economics 50 (2002)
• Lawrence Lessig, The Limits in Open Code: Regulatory Standards and the Future of the Net, 14 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 759 (1999).

Peer-to-peer

October 5, 2006
Assignment

• Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 US 417 (1984) (excerpts)
• A&M Records v. Napster, 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001) (excerpts)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer v. Grokster, 545 U.S. 913 (2005), (excerpts)
• skim Complaint in Capitol Records v. Does 1-250, 04-CV-00472, <http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/RIAA_v_ThePeople/JohnDoe/20040121_capitol_complaint.pdf>
  
• skim EFF, A Better Way Forward, Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing, <http://www.eff.org/share/?f=collective_lic_wp.html>
  
• skim Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman, The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution (2002) <http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc>
  

For further reading (optional):

• Mark Lemley & R. Anthony Reese, Reducing Digital Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation, 56 Stan. L. Rev (2004), <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=525662>
• William Fisher, Promises to Keep (2005)

Anticircumvention

October 12
Assignment

• DMCA Anticircumvention, 17 U.S.C. 1201
  
• Universal v. Corley, 273 F.3d. 429, (2d Cir. 2001)
  
• Lexmark v. Static Control Components, 387 F.3d 522 (6th Cir. 2005)    
  
• Wendy Seltzer, The Broadcast Flag: It’s not just TV, 57 Fed. Comm. L.J. 209 (2005), <http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v57/no2/Seltzer.pdf>
  

For further reading (optional):

• Julie Cohen, A Right to Read Anonymously: A Closer Look at "Copyright Management" In Cyberspace" 28 Conn. L. Rev 981 (1996), <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property/alternative/Cohen.html>
• Pam Samuelson, Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy: Why the Anti-Circumvention Regulations Need to Be Revised, BTLJ (1999), <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Epam/papers/Samuelson_IP_dig_eco_htm.htm>
• Fred von Lohmann, Measuring the DMCA Against the Darknet, 24 Loyola of Los Angeles L.Rev. 635 (2005) <http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/DMCA_against_the_darknet.pdf>
• EFF, Unintended Consequences <http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php>
• Dean Marks and Bruce Turnbull, Technical Protection Measures: The intersection of technology, law and commercial licenses, 46 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S. 563 (1999), <http://www.wipo.org/documents/en/meetings/1999/wct_wppt/doc/imp99_3.doc>
• Death by DMCA, IEEE Spectrum, June 2006

Privacy from commerce

October 19, 2006
Assignment

• In re GeoCities, Federal Trade Commission (1999)
• In re DoubleClick Inc. Privacy Litig., 154 F. Supp. 2d 497 (S.D.N.Y. 2001)
• Browse the TRUSTe website, <http://www.truste.org/>
• Jeri Clausing, Privacy Watchdog Declines to Pursue Microsoft, a Backer, N.Y. Times, March 22, 1999, <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/cyber/articles/23privacy.html>
• Joseph Reagle and Lorrie Faith Cranor, The Platform for Privacy Preferences, <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-P3P-CACM/>

For further reading (optional):

• Federal Trade Commission, Privacy Online: Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace: A Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress (May 2000), <http://www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy2000/privacy2000.pdf>
• Jerry Kang, Information Privacy in Cyberspace Transactions, 50 Stan. L. Rev. 1193 (1998)
• James Boyle, Foucault in Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hard-Wired Censors (1997), <http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/foucault.htm>
• Joel R. Reidenberg, Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules Through Technology, 76 Tex.L.Rev. 553 (1998), <http://reidenberg.home.sprynet.com/lex_informatica.pdf>

Privacy from government

October 26, 2006
Assignment

• Electronic Communications Privacy Act, as amended by USA PATRIOT Act (read the summaries; the full text of the statutes is included at the end for your convenience, but is not required)
• Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967); Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979); Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)
• Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. U.S. Secret Service, 36 F.3d 457 (5th Cir. 1994)
• James Risen & Eric Lichtblau, Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts, New York Times, Dec. 16, 2005
• EFF Complaint, Hepting v. AT&T, N.D. Cal. Feb. 22, 2006, <http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/att_complaint_amended.pdf>

For further reading (optional):

• Doe v. Ashcroft, 334 F. Supp. 2d 471 (S.D.N.Y. 2004) (excerpt)
• Deirdre Mulligan, Reasonable Expectations in Electronic Communications: A Critical Perspective on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 72 Geo. Wash.L. Rev. 1557, 1565 (2004)
• Susan Freiwald, Online Surveillance: Remembering the Lessons of the Wiretap Act, 56 Ala. L. Rev. 9, 46-52 (2004)
• Orin S. Kerr, Internet Surveillance Law after the USA PATRIOT Act: The Big Brother that Isn't, 2003 NW. U. L. Rev. 607, 616-18 (2003

Domain Names and Trademarks

November 2, 2006
Assignment

• Panavision International, L.P. v. Toeppen, 141 F.3d 1316 (9th Cir. 1998)
  
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney, 263 F.3d 359, 364 (4th Cir. 2001)
  
• Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles, 279 F.3d 796 (9th Cir. 2002)
  
• Lamparello v. Falwell, 420 F.3d 309 (4th Cir. 2005)
  
• ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), <http://www.icann.org/dndr/udrp/policy.htm>
• Domain Dispute: Madonna Ciccone, p/k/a Madonna v. Dan Parisi and "Madonna.com", WIPO D2000-0847 <http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2000/d2000-0847.html>

For further reading (optional):

• Mark Lemley, The Modern Lanham Act and the Death of Common Sense, 108 Yale L.J. 1687 (1999).
  
• Jessica Litman, Breakfast with Batman: The Public Interest in the Advertising Age, 108 Yale L.J. 1717 (1999)
  
• The DNS Wars: Trademarks and The Internet Domain Name System, Jessica Litman, 4 Small & Emerg. Bus. L. 149 (2000)
• WIPO RFC3: The Recognition of Rights and the Use of Names in the Internet Domain Name System
• Rough Justice: An Analysis of ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, Milton Mueller
• Fair.com?: An Examination of the Allegations of Systemic Unfairness in the ICANN UDRP, Michael Geist

ISPs, search, and safe harbors

November 9, 2006
Assignment

• DMCA Safe Harbors, 17 U.S.C. 512 (enacted 1998)
  
• Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Comm. Servs., Inc., 907 F.Supp. 1361 (N.D. Cal. 1995)
  
• Hendrickson v. eBay, Inc., 165 F. Supp. 2d 1082 (C.D. Cal. 2001)
  
• ALS Scan, Inc. v. RemarQ Communities, Inc., 239 F.3d 619 (4th Cir. 2001)
  
• Online Policy Group v. Diebold, 337 F Supp 2d 1195 (N.D. Cal. 2004)
  
• Chilling Effects, <http://www.chillingeffects.org/>, see Google DMCA Takedowns: A three-month view http://www.chillingeffects.org/weather.cgi?WeatherID=498
  

For further reading (optional):

• EFF, Unsafe Harbors, <http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20030926_unsafe_harbors.php>
  
• David Nimmer, Repeat Infringers, 52 J. Copyright Soc’y 167 (2005);
  
• Tim Wu, Copyright's Communications Policy, 103 Mich. L.Rev. 278 (2004)
  
• Recording Indus. Ass’n of Am. v. Verizon Internet Servs., 351 F.3d 1229 (D.C. Cir. 2003)
  

Intrusion: Trespass, Spam

November 16, 2006

• CompuServ, Inc. v. Cyberpromotions, Inc., 962 F. Supp. 1015 (S.D. Ohio 1997)
• eBay, Inc. v. Bidder's Edge, Inc. 100 F. Supp. 2d 1058 (ND Cal. 2000)
• Intel Corp. v. Hamidi, 30 Cal. 4th 1342; 71 P.3d 296; 1 Cal. Rptr. 3d 32 (Cal. 2003)
• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030
• EF Cultural Travel BV v. Zefer Corp., 318 F.3d 58 (1st Cir. 2003)
• CAN-SPAM, S.877, 108th Congress, <http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/108s877.shtml>
• MAPS, Introduction to the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) servers, <http://www.mail-abuse.com/wp_introrbl.html>
• Yahoo!, DomainKeys, <http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys>

For further reading (optional):

• I. Trotter Hardy, The Ancient Doctrine of Trespass to Websites, 1996 J. Online L. art. 7 <http://www.wm.edu/law/publications/jol/95_96/hardy.html>
• Dan L. Burk, The Trouble With Trespass, 3 J. SMALL & EMERGING BUS. L. 1 (1998) <http://www.isc.umn.edu/research/papers/trespass-ed2.pdf>
• David E. Sorkin, Technical and Legal Approaches to Unsolicited Electronic Mail, 35 U.S.F. L. Rev. 325 (2001), <http://www.spamlaws.com/articles/usf.html>
• David Johnson, Susan Crawford, and John Palfrey, The Accountable Net: Peer Production of Internet Governance, 9 Va. J.L. & Tech. 9 (2004) <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/336/AccountableInternet.pdf>
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, Noncommercial Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against Spam, <http://www.eff.org/wp/?f=SpamCollateralDamage.html>

Network regulation, redux: Do we need to regulate the 'Net to save it?

November 30, 2006
Assignment