Cyberlaw

Summer 2011

LAWS 545

  1. All reading and written assignments must be completed prior to the class in which they are due.
  2. Attendance is encouraged but not mandatory. Students are responsible for keeping current with the assignments. The professor is not responsible for keeping students current.
  3. Class participation is encouraged and will be rewarded academically.
  4. Graduate students are required to complete additional coursework as a condition of the class.
  5. Readings will be from the text, cyberspace, or handouts.
     
 DATE  ASSIGNMENT  NOTES
 07.05.11 Code Code and Code:  Introduction to the course and concepts Cyberspace, law and technology; L:Preface;; Disussion of Second Life as virtual space.
 07.07.11 What is Cyberlaw now and later. L:3-62; L:63-110;
 07.12.11 The New Frontier; Sovereignty; Rule-Making in Cyberspace.  
 07.14.11

 Procedural Issues such as the dimensions of privacy and jurisdiction.

Intellectual Property : Intellectual property and changing landscapes - MP3, Berne Convention, No Electronic Theft Act ; Trademark Trademark Sites and Info;  Copyright The WIPO Copyright Treaty, US Copyright Act , MP3 Players

L:188-212; H: Ch 1

L:122-141; H: Ch 5

07.19.11

Defamation online; Privacy Issues and Cases on Privacy: Think before you hit "enter".

Privacy continued; A tort is a tort of course of course: Fake Facebook sites.

L:142-163; Paper Requirements: Choose one major issue confronting your company and/or industry and explain how you would resolve it referencing Lessig and Helewitz.; H:Ch 2

  07.21.11 TAKE HOME EXAM - Will be posted on BlackBoard - No in class meeting

List of Key Terms for Midterm; S: Read Snow Crash

07.26.11

The issue and metaphor of viruses in cyberspace and in real space.

Cybercommerce and  Electronic Contracts and Signatures; Parallel Questions: How does it feel to be biomass for Internet Commerce?


H: Ch 4
Are ideologies and religions viruses?

 

 08.28.11
 Freedom of speech and association: 1st Amendment: RENO, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, et al. v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al. Internet Filtering. Spamming. Taking Info without waiver or permission and use in litigation; Communication Decency

H: Ch 3

Overreaching Provisions in Software License Agreements by Michael Liberman

 08.02.11

Freedom of love and lust: Looking for love in all the wrong cyberplaces.

L:164-185; H: Ch 3. Free Speech in the College Community Robert M. O'Neil, Indiana University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0-253-33267-2 Reviewed by Rodney A. Smolla; Free Speech & The Internet: The Inevitable Move Toward Government Regulation, James J. Black; THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT: ABORTING THE FIRST AMENDMENT? BY Sheryl L. Herndon

 08.04.11

 

Don't do the cybercrime if you can't do the time: J Dibbell 'A Rape in Cyberspace' in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, ed Peter Ludlow, Actual piece; The top ten ways to break the law on the Internet; True Threats; "If there were no laws, the Mafia would just be another franchise". - Hiro Protagonist.

L:111-121; H: Ch 6. State Criminal Laws in Cyberspace: Reconciling Freedom for Users with Effective Law Enforcement , Sean M. Thornto; Cyberspace, General Searches, and Digital Contraband; The Fourth Amendment and the Net-Wide Search, Michael Adler, 105 Yale L. J. 1093 (1996); Self Incrimination and Cryptographic Keys by Greg S. Sergienko

 08.09.11

Journey back to the future.

Final Thoughts on Cyberspace

 

 

08.11.11
FINAL EXAMINATION - IN CLASS