| 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? |
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| 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
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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 |
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| 08.11.11 |
FINAL EXAMINATION - IN CLASS
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