Internet Law 2006

Week 1: Introduction to Internet Law

Instead of a printed casebook, Internet Law will use cases and materials compiled on the course website, <http://wendy.seltzer.org/brooklaw/ilaw06/>.

For the first class, please read:

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)

Compare Barlow’s 1996 vision of the Internet with Lessig’s 1999 view and the Internet of 2006. Which do you find most attractive?