Syllabus

Internet Law

Fall 1999

Professor Ronald W. Staudt

SYLLABUS

The syllabus that follows is tentative. It may take us more time to complete our analysis of these cases and materials; we may be completed in less time than indicated. This course will examine Internet law developments in the following general areas on the dates specified. Reading assignments for course are posted below. I will add reading assignments as we progress through the semester based on my own selections and the student linking assignments. The initial assignments draw heavily from Professor Nicolas Terry's course materials for Cyberspace Law that he teaches at Saint Louis University. Dozens of other law professors have launched Internet Law courses during the past 5 years and have generously shared suggestions for course materials. I have drawn frequently on the work of Professor David Post at Temple and Professor Pam Samuelson at Berkeley. The best reference text for the law of the Internet is Perritt, Law and the Information Superhighway.

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Class	Topic	Reading Assignment
August 23, 1999	Introduction	Read the Course Information and Syllabus Perritt, What is the Internet? ACLU v. Reno, 929 F. Supp. 824 (E.D. Pa. 1996) http://www.aclu.org/court/cdadec.html, read Part II, Findings of Fact Brief history of the Internet http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html
August 25	Domain Name/TM	Beverly v. Network Solutions, 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8888 (N.D. Cal. 1998) Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Panavision Int'l, L.P. V. Toeppen, 141 F.3d 1316 (9^th Cir. 1998), 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 7557 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers November 1998 InterNIC, Network Solutions, Inc. Registration Services Network Solutions' Domain Name Dispute Policy The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority US Patent & Trademark Office, Trademark Examination of Domain Names
August 30	Domain Name/TM	Jews for Jesus v. Brodsky, 993 F. Supp. 282 (D.N.J. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2962 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Data Concepts, Inc. v. Digital Consulting, Inc., 150 F.3d 620 (6^th Cir. 1998), 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 17758 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Patmont Motor Works, Inc. v. Gateway Marine, Inc., 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20877 (N.D. Cal. 1997) Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
September 1	Domain Name/TM	Assignment #1 Due. Planned Parenthood Fed'n of Am., Inc. v. Bucci, 42 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1430 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 19, 1997), 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3338 aff'd and cert. denied. Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Avery Dennison Corp. v. Sumpton, 999 F. Supp. 1337 (C.D. Cal. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4373 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit *AVERY DENNISON CORP. v. SUMPTON, LEXSEE® 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 19954* Toys 'R' Us, Inc. v. Feinberg, 26 F. Supp. 2d 639 (S.D. N.Y. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17217 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
September 6	No Class	Chicago-Kent Closed for Labor Day
September 8	Domain Name/TM (Prof. Samuelson’s current additions)	Team Assignment Due. Brookfield Communications v. West Coast Entertainment, 174 F.3d 1036 (9th Cir. 1999), http://laws.findlaw.com/9th/9856918.html Porsche Cars North America, Inc. v. Porsch.com, ___ F.Supp.2d ___, 51 U.S.P.Q.2d 1461, (E.D.Va. 1999), 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8750 ICANN’s June 15, 1999 Status Report to Dept. of Commerce, http://www.icann.org/statusreport-15june99.htm Executive Summary, WIPO report to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), http://wipo2.wipo.int/process/eng/final/FinalReport.html Michael Froomkin, A Commentary on WIPO’s The Management of Internet Names and Addresses: Intellectual Property Issues, http://www.law.miami.edu/~amf/commentary.htm
September 13	Domain Name/TM In Class Notes	Domain Name/Trademark Slack New links since class session: Hasbro v. Clue Computing, Inc
September 15	Content Regulation	Student Links by David Ballard, Benjamin Barr, Julia Ceffalo, Kavita Chopra Reno v. ACLU, 117 S.Ct. 2329 (1997), 1997 U.S. LEXIS 4037 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit ACLU v. Miller, 977 F. Supp. 1228 (N.D. Ga. 1997), 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14466 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
September 20	No Class	Yom Kippur – No Classes
September 22	Content Regulation In Class Notes	Mainstream Loudoun v. Bd. Of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library, 2 F. Supp.2d 783 (E.D. Va. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18479 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit American Civil Liberties Union, et al. v. Janet Reno, 31 F. Supp. 2d 473 (E.D. Pa. 1999), LEXSEE® 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 735
September 27	Content Liability 3^rd Parties	Student Links by April Cheek, Aurora Donnelly, Kelly Marks Cubby v. Compuserve, 776 F. Supp. 135 (S.D. N.Y. 1991), 1991 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15545 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 23 Media L. Rep. (BNA) ¶ 1794, 1995 N.Y. Misc. Lexis 229 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. May 24, 1995) Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Communications Decency Act & sect;230 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Zeran v. America Online, 129 F.3d 327 (4th Cir. 1997), 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 31791 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
September 29	Content Liability 3^rd Parties	Doe v. American Online, Inc., 718 So. 2d 385 (Fla. Ct. App. 1998), 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 12841 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F. Supp. 44 (D. D.C. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5606 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
October 4	Privacy -- Common Law In Class Notes	Student Links by Juliana Duan, Eduardo Fernandez, Bernadette Freeman, Matthew Goldberg, Damon Fisch, Ayman Nour, Indu Varma, Marcel Kuchler Shibley v. Time, Inc., 341 N.E.2d 337 (Ohio Ct. App. 1975) LEXSEE® 341 N.E.2d 337 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Michaels v. Internet Entertainment Group, 5 F. Supp. 2d 823 (C.D. Cal. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10678 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Smyth v. Pillsbury Co., 914 F. Supp. 97 (E.D. Pa. 1996), 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 776 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
October 6	Privacy -- Federal Statutes In Class Notes	Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978, 12 USC 3401 et seq., 12 U.S.C. 3401, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit, 12 USC 3402, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit, 12 USC 3403, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Electronic Communications Privacy Act ("ECPA"), 18 USC 2701 et seq., 18 U.S.C. 2701, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit, 18 U.S.C. 2702, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit, 18 U.S.C. 2703, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit, 18 U.S.C. 2707, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Protection of subscriber privacy (Cable TV) 47 USC 551 FTC, Internet Site Agrees to Settle FTC Charges of Deceptively Collecting Personal Information in Agency's First Internet Privacy Case, August 13, 1998 Microsoft Privacy Policy McVeigh v. Cohen, 983 F. Supp. 215 (D. D.C. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 790 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Andersen Consulting LLP v. UOP and Bickel & Brewer, 991 F. Supp. 1041 (D. Ill. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. Lexis 1016 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
October 13	Privacy -- Spam Virginia Proposal, Washington Post	CompuServe, Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc., 962 F. Supp. 1015 (S.D. Ohio 1997), 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1997 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit America Online, Inc. v. IMS, 24 F. Supp. 2d 548 (E.D. Va. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17437 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit MCI Telecommunications Corporation and Affiliates Policy on Spamming EarthLink Network Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, No. BC 167502 (Cal. Super. Ct. L.A. County, Mar. 30, 1998) (Settlement) Washington House Bill 2752 (1998) (enacted 3/25/98, effective. 6/25/98) Seidl v. Greentree Mortgage Co., 30 F. Supp. 2d 1292 (D. Col. 1998),1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17253 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
October 11	Privacy -- International In Class Notes	The Swedish Personal Register Law[summary and critique] Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data International Trade Administration Safe Harbor Principles November 4, 1998, April 19, 1999
October 18	Copyright on the Web Copyright Basics, U.S. Copyright Office	Student Links by Michael Heller, Nicholle Hempel, Erin Joffre Linking and Framing Washington Post v. Total News (Settlement) Ticketmaster v. Microsoft (Background) Hotmail frames raise legal ire, by Paul Festa, CNET News.com, October 9, 1998, 1:15 p.m. PT Futuredontics, Inc. v. Applied Anagramics, No. 97-56711, 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2265 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 30, 1998), aff'd. Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
October 20	Copyright on the Web In Class Notes	Software Counterfeiting, Piracy and Bootlegging U.S. v. LaMacchia, 871 F. Supp. 535 (D. Mass. 1994), 1994 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18602 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit NO ELECTRONIC THEFT (NET) ACT, LEXSTAT® 105 P.L. 147 (redlined version from DOJ) Marobie-FL, Inc. d/b/a Galactic Software v. Nat'l Ass'n of Fire Equip. Dist. and Northwest Nexus, Inc., 983 F. Supp. 1167 (N.D. Ill. 1997), 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18764 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Storm Impact, Inc. v. Software of the Month Club, 13 F. Supp. 2d 782 (N.D. Ill. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11789 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
October 25	Copyright on the Web In Class Notes	Data Warehouses Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publ. Co., 158 F.3d 693 (2nd Cir. 1998), 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 28024, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit [On Findlaw, No. 977910, No. 977910 dissent, No. 977430, No. 977430 dissent] Tasini V. New York Times Co., LEXSEE® 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 23360 Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the Legal Protection of Databases Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998 H.R.228 ["Also at "Thomas" Enrolled Bill (Sent to and signed by President)] Copyright Office Summary (pdf) Book Sites Hurt by Copyright Law New York Times, October 28, 1998
October 27	Copyright on the Web In Class Notes Basics Overview	Copyright Slack
November 1	Jurisdiction In Class Notes	Student Links by Alyson Lanzer, Kevin Lehrer, Justin Major, Ross Mantell, Christine Bell Zippo Mfg. Co. v. Zippo Dot Com, Inc., 952 F. Supp. 1119 (W.D. Pa. 1997), 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1701 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Cybersell, Inc. v. Cybersell, Inc., 130 F.3d 414 (9th Cir. 1997), 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 33871 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Bensusan Restaurant Corp. v. King, 126 F.3d 25 (2nd Cir. 1997), 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 23742 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Millennium Enterprises v. Millennium Music, 33 F. Supp. 2d 907 (D.C. Ore. 1999), 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3709 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
November 3	Jurisdiction In Class Notes	U.S. v. Thomas, 74 F. 3d 701 (6^th Cir. 1996), 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 1069 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit State of Minn. v. Granite Gate Resorts, Inc., 568 N.W.2d 715 (Minn. App. 1997), 1997 Minn. App. LEXIS 1053 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Recommended reading, review the jurisdiction analysis in the following cases previously read: Panavision Int'l, L.P. v. Toeppen, 141 F.3d 1316 (9^th Cir. 1998), 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 7557 [Assigned, supra, Feb 1] Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Am. Library Ass'n v. Pataki, 969 F. Supp. 160 (S.D. N.Y. 1997), 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8793 [Assigned, supra, Feb 22] Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F. Supp. 44 (D.D.C 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5606 [Assigned, supra, March 1] Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Michaels v. Internet Entertainment Group, 5 F. Supp. 2d 823 (C.D. Cal. 1998), 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10678 [Assigned, supra, March 3] Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
November 8	Court Systems & Process	Student Links by Eric Moran, Paul Padron, Kyle Petersen, Stuart Primack, Joy O’Shell Electronic Case Files in the Federal Courts: Executive Summary in pdf format. http://www.uscourts.gov/casefiles/ECFMAR97.PDF Northern District of Ohio Electronic Filing Policy and Procedures Manual in pdf format. http://ecf.ohnd.uscourts.gov/op-fin.pdf Electronic Dockets: Use of Information Technology in Rulemaking and Adjudication Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States. (1995) http://www.kentlaw.edu/classes/rstaudt/internetlaw/dotnrc.doc
November 10	Court Systems & Process In Class Notes	Review the material on the five top links in the student links for this area.
November 15	Commerce	Student Links by Ryan Schpritz, Bryan Sugar, Donald Sullenger, Atul Trivedi, Megan Valentine, Tomasz Sieniow, Yunying Sun ProCD Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996), 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 14951 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Brower v. Gateway 2000, Inc., 676 N.Y.S.2d 569 (New York Supreme Ct. App. Div. [Aug.] 1998), 1998 N.Y. App. Div. Lexis 8872 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
November 17	Commerce	United States Working Group on Electronic Commerce November 1998 (PDF) Richard Warner, Electronic and Digital Signatures Summary of Illinois Electronic Commerce and Digital Signature Legislation by McBride, Baker & Coles, http://www.mbc.com/ecommerce/ds_sum.html
November 22	Crime	Student Links by Tim Loevschal, Michel Kahr, Anna Pahl, Christine Keijer, Michael Barrett, LeHigh Cohen, Kandel Eaton Background The Web Police Sheri A. Dillon, Douglas E. Groene and Todd Hayward, Computer Crimes, 35 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 503 (1998) Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (as amended), 18 USCS § 1030 (1998) U.S. v. Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2^nd Cir. 1991), 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 3682, cert.denied. Professor Staudt Casebook Edit U.S. v. Riggs, 739 F. Supp. 414 (N.D. Ill. 1990), 1990 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6970 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit U.S. v. Riggs, 980 F.2d 1449 (11th Cir. Ga. 1992), 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 17592 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
November 24	Crime This material also assigned for Copyright on October 20, 1999. In Class Notes	U.S. v. LaMacchia, 871 F. Supp. 535 (D. Mass. 1994), 1994 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18602 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit NO ELECTRONIC THEFT (NET) ACT, LEXSTAT® 105 P.L. 147 (redlined version from DOJ)
November 29	Crime In Class Notes	State New York Penal Law §156.10, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit , §156.20, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit , §156.30, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit , §156.50, Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Wisconsin Computer Crimes Law, Wis. Stat. § 943.70 , Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Briggs v. State, 348 Md. 470, 704 A.2d 904 (1998), 1998 Md. LEXIS 9 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit Ohio v. Perry, 697 N.E.2d 624 (Ohio 1998), 1998 Ohio LEXIS 2211 Professor Staudt Casebook Edit
November 30	Review/Slack
December 8	Final Exam