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  Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age, 3rd Edition

Written by:

Patricia L. Bellia

John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C.
Associate Professor of Law
Notre Dame Law School

Paul Schiff Berman

Jesse Root Professor of Law
University of Connecticut
School of Law

David G. Post

I. Herman Stern
Professor of Law
Temple University Beasley
School of Law



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Chapter 2

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Students pursuing paper topics: below are some helpful sources for internet law news and issues, as well as a list of general topics mentioned in class.

Privacy / Free Speech / Civil Liberties sites:
      Center for Democracy and Technology (www.cdt.org)
     Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
     Electronic Privacy Information Center (www.epic.org)
     ICANN Watch (www.icannwatch.org)

Internet News Sources:
     Packets (Stanford)(cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets)
     Tech Law Practice Center(www.law.com/jsp/pc/techlaw.jsp)
     GigaLaw.com Daily news(www.gigalaw.com/news/index.html)
     BNA's Internet Law News (free subscription) (www.bna.com/ilaw/)


General topics:


Intellectual Property

Copyright
  • Application of Supreme Court’s decision in MGM v. Groksterto other file-sharing technologies.
  • Possible legislative alternatives to the FCC's failedregulatory "broadcast flag" effort
  • Breadth of DMCA; application to after-market products and/or reverse engineering (see, e.g., Lexmark Int’l v. Static Control Components; Davidson & Assoc. v. Internet Gateway, Inc.(a/k/a Blizzard v. BnetD))
Trademark
  • Reverse domain name hijacking
  • Evolution of the law w/r/t ".sucks" domains
  • WIPO arbitration vs. ACPA
Computer Crime
  • Combatting spyware (existing law; possible legislative responses)
  • Combatting phishing (existing law; possible legislative responses)

Data Privacy

  • Privacy issues in VOIP (e.g., location tracking)
  • RFID (radio frequency identification) devices
  • Government access/use of personally identifiable information from commercial sources
Free Expression

  • Anonymity; CyberSLAPP and John Doe cases
  • Bloggers' rights / liabilities
Internet Governance
  • Internet Governance Report (recently released by UN-chartered Working Group on Internet Governance)
  • Proposals for structural reform of ICANN
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