Software & Internet Law 2008

Introduction to Internet Law

Introduction

Media Law Project's introduction to the Wikileaks.org takedown.</a>

Compare Barlow's 1996 vision of the Internet with Lessig's view and the Internet of 2008. Which do you find most attractive?

The Net: How it works, how it can be broken

March 5, 2008

Assignment 2

• 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>

For further reading (optional):

• 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.law.harvard.edu/home/2003-01>
• Lawrence Lessig, What Things Regulate Speech? 38 Jurimetrics 629 (1998) <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/works/lessig/what_things.pdf>
  
• Blind Ballots: Web Sites of U.S. Political Candidates Censored by Censorware, Peacefire.org

Who rules the Net?

March 10, 2008

• Jonathan Zittrain, Jurisdiction
• Cybersell, Inc. v. Cybersell, Inc., 130 F.3d 414 (9th Cir. 1997)
• Zippo Mfg. Co. v. Zippo Dot Com. Inc., 952 F. Supp. 1119 (W.D. Pa.1997)
• Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et l'Antisemitisme, 433 F.3d 1199 (9th Cir. 2006) (en banc)
• ICANN, a solution or another problem? browse http://www.icann.org/
• OpenNet Initiative: About Filtering <http://opennet.net/about-filtering>
• Law And Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, David R. Johnson and David G. Post, 48 Stanford Law Review 1367 (1996) excerpt full
For Further Reading (optional):
• Dow Jones & Co. Inc. v. Gutnick, High Court of Australia, [2002] HCA 56 (10 December 2002)
• 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

March 12, 2008

• 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 sec. 230, 47 USC sec. 230 (1996)
• Zeran v. America Online, 129 F.3d 327 (4th Cir. 1997)
• Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F.Supp. 44 (D.D.C. 1998)
• James Goodale, "Yale Law Students May Be Out of Luck," N.Y.L.J. Dec 7, 2007
• 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>

Copyright

March 17, 2008

• 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

For further reading (optional):

• 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)

Free and Open Source, Peer Production

March 19, 2008
Assignment

• Free Software Foundation, The Free Software Definition
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond (2000)
• Free Software: GNU General Public License (GPL v.3), http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
  
• Creative Commons: Commons Deed and Legal Code to Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 U.S., http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
  
• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks, ch. 3: Peer Production and Sharing read pp. 59-67.
• Grey Tuesday, see <http://www.greytuesday.org/> and <http://www.eff.org/IP/grey_tuesday.php>
• Find something offered under copyright terms other than "all rights reserved."

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).
• Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation
• Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture, http://www.free-culture.cc/

Peer-to-Peer

March 24, 2008

• Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 US 417 (1984)
• A&M Records v. Napster, 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer v. Grokster, No. 04-480, (U.S. June 27, 2005), <http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/04-480.pdf>
• 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>
• EFF, A Better Way Forward, Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing, <http://www.eff.org/share/?f=collective_lic_wp.html>
• 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)

Interoperability, promises and threats

March 26, 2008

• Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99 (1879) (excerpt)
• Sega v. Accolade, 203 F.3d 596 (9th Cir. 1993) (excerpt)
• Sony v. Connectix, 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir. 2000)
• U.S. v. Microsoft, excerpt from the expert report of Edward W. Feltexn

• Pamela Samuelson and Suzanne Scotchmer, The Law and Economics of Reverse Engineering, 111 Yale L. J. 1575-1663. May, 2002.

Anticircumvention

March 31, 2008

• 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)
• Death by DMCA, IEEE Spectrum, June 2006

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>

Contract

April 2, 2008
Assignment

• ProCD v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996)
• Shrinkwrap: Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software, Ltd., 847 F.2d 255 (5th Cir. 1988)
• Browsewrap: Specht v. Netscape, 306 F.3d 17 (2d Cir. 2001)
• Bowers v. Baystate, 320 F.3d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2003)

Privacy from government

April 7, 2008
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)
• Doe v. Ashcroft, 334 F. Supp. 2d 471 (S.D.N.Y. 2004)
• Barton Gellman, "The FBI's Secret Scrutiny," Washington Post, Nov. 6, 2005 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR2005110501366_pf.html>

For further reading (optional):

• 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

Privacy from commerce and the public

April 9, 2008
Assignment

• Facebook's Beacon
• 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>

Domain Names and Trademarks

April 14, 2008
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)

Trademark, Redux

April 16, 2008
Assignment

• 1-800-Contacts, Inc. v. WhenU.com, Inc., 414 F.3d 400 (2d. Cir., June 27, 2005)
• Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Netscape Communications Corp. 354 F.3d 1020 (9th Cir. 2004)
• ICANN browse New gTLD program briefing and
• workshop briefing material on New gTLDs

For Further Reading:

• Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Trademark
• 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

Safe Harbors or Choppy Waters?

April 23, 2008
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 Socyy 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

• 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)
• Register.com, Inc. v. Verio, Inc., 356 F.3d 393 (2d Cir. 2004)
• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030
  
• EF Cultural Travel BV v. Zefer Corp., 318 F.3d 58 (1st Cir. 2003)
  
• MAPS, Introduction to the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) servers, <http://www.mail-abuse.com/wp_introrbl.html>
  
• e360 Insight complaints against Spamhaus RBL
• Yahoo!, DomainKeys, <http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys>
  

• 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>

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