| Week 1: 8/26 & 8/31 | Week 2: 9/5 & 9/7 | Week 3: 9/12 & 9/14 |
| Week 4: 9/19 & 9/21 | Week 5: 9/26 & 9/28 | Week 6: 10/3 & 10/5 |
| Week 7: 10/10 & 10/12 | Week 8: 10/17 & 10/19 | Week 9: 10/24 & 10/26 |
| Week 10: 10/31 & 11/2 | Week 11: 11/7 & 11/9 | Week 12: 11/14 & 11/16 |
| Week 13: 11/21 & 11/23 | Week 14: 11/28 & 11/30 | Week 15: 12/1 & 12/1 |
Week 1
Monday, August 29: Introduction to Information Law & Policy
- To Diffuse “Flash’ Protest, BART Cuts Riders’ Cell Service. Is That Legal?
- BART Cellphone Shutdown Confronts Anonymous Protest: Awaiting FCC Investigate
- BART Cell Phone Shutdown: Safety Issue or Free Speech Violation?
- Bart’s Shutdown-of Cell Phone Service Two Legal Opinions
Wednesday, August 31: Introduction to Information Law and Policy
- Moor, James, “What is computer ethics?” [HTML]
- Clark, D. D., Wroclawski, J., Sollins, K. R., and Braden, R. 2005. Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow’s internet. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 13, 3 (Jun. 2005), 462-475. [PDF]
- Recommended: Orin S. Kerr, How to Read a Legal Opinion, 11 Green Bag 2d 51 (2007). [PDF]
Week 2
Monday, September 5: No Class
Labor Day Holiday
Wednesday, September 7: Introduction to Information Law and Policy
Architecture’s influence on regulation
- Berman, J. and Weitzner, D.J., “Abundance and User Control: Renewing the Democratic Heart of the First Amendment in the Age of Interactive Media,” 104 Yale Law Journal 1619, (1995). [PDF]
- ACLU v. Mukasey, 534 F.3d 181, 2008 (3d Cir. Pa. 2008) (skip sections III, IV A, IV C, and Conclusion) [PDF]
Week 3
Monday, September 12: Freedom of Expression
Relationship Between Architecture and State Regulation
- Ward v. Rock
- Krishna v. Lee
- Pentagon Papers
- Brandenburg
- UNITED STATES V. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSN., INC. (02-361) 539 U.S. 194 (2003) (plurality opinion). [PDF] or [HTML]
Wednesday, September 14: Freedom of Expression
Private Property and Freedom of Expression
- Lloyd v. Tanner 407 U.S. 551 (1972)
- UNITED STATES V. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSN., INC. (02-361) 539 U.S. 194 (2003) (plurality opinion). [PDF] or [HTML]
- Intel Corp. v. Hamidi, 114 Cal. Rptr. 2d 244 (Ct. App. 2001). (read Factual and Procedural Background section & section III) [HTML]
- MacKinnon, Rebecca. “WikiLeaks, Amazon and the new threat to internet speech.” Special to CNN, December 3, 2010 [HTML]
- Testimony of Leslie Harris before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law on Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility and the Rule of Law” [PDF]
Week 4
Monday, September 19: Privacy and Exposure
- Ryan Shaw, “Recognition Markets and Visual Privacy” [PDF]
- Jean-Francois Blanchette, Deborah G. Johnson, “Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness” [PDF]
- Martin House, NLRB
- Face Matching with Facebook Profiles
- Foggy thinking about the Right to Oblivion
- OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (Parts 1-5)
Wednesday, September 21: Privacy— Consumer Protection Approaches
- FTC Policy Statement on Deception [PDF]
- FTC Policy Statement on Unfairness [PDF]
- In the Matter of Google. Read the Agreement, Complaint, Exhibits A-D, and Concurring Statement [all links PDF]
- In the Matter of Sears Holdings Management Corporation (order) [PDF]
- In the Matter of Sears Holdings Management Corporation (complaint) [PDF]
Week 5
Monday, September 26: Privacy—Special Considerations
Kids, Location, and Information goods
- COPPA http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm
- Nick Doty, Deirdre K. Mulligan and Eric Wilde. (2010). Privacy Issues of the W3C Geolocation API. UC Berkeley: School of Information. Report 2010-038. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rp834wf
- The Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc. – Privacy Authors And Publishers’ Objection To Proposed Settlement pp. 6-10; 12-15; 17-25
Wednesday, September 28 Consumer Protection and Security
- FTC Statement on Data Security [PDF]
- In the Matter of Eli Lilly [PDF]
- In the matter of CardSystems [PDF]
- California Office of Privacy Protection’s Recommended Practices under the Security Breach Notice law: Read pages 5-15 [PDF]
Week 6
Monday, October 3: Copyright
- 17 USC §§ 102, 103, 106, 107, 117 (definitions of works eligible for copyright; all links HTML)
- Feist v. Rural, 499 U.S. 340 (1991) [HTML]
Wednesday, October 5: Patent Basics
Guest Lecturer: Robert Barr
- Patent Laws
- KSR v. TELEFLEX 550 U.S. 398; 127 S. Ct. 1727 (read: majority opinion)
- Bilski v Kappos 130 S. Ct. 3218 (read: majority opinion)
- US Patent No. 5960411:_Method_and_system_for_placing_a purchase order via a communications network (this is an example of a software patent – you don’t have to read the entire thing)
Week 7
Monday, October 10: Copyright and Personal Use
- Mulligan, Han, Burstein, “How DRM Content Systems Disrupt Expectations of Personal Use” [PDF]
- The Engadget Interview: Paul Aiken, Executive Director of the Authors Guild [HTML]
- Optional: Van Houweling, Molly Shaffer, Distributive Values in Copyright. Texas Law Review, Vol. 83, p. 1535, 2005. [PDF]
Wednesday, October 12: Reusing Other People’s “Works” — Fair Use
- Online Policy Group (OPG) v. Diebold 337 F.Supp.2d 1195 (N.D. Cal. 2004) Excerpt. [PDF]
- Perfect 10 v. Google — District Court Opinion [Google Scholar]
- Band, J., “The Google Library Project: Both Sides of the Story,” 2 Plagiary 1 (2006) [PDF]
Week 8
Monday, October 17: Contracts and Terms of Service (TOS)
- Pro-CD v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (1996) [HTML]
- Alan Charles Raul, Edward McNicholas, Colleen Theresa Rutledge, and Adam Rusnak, End of the Notice Paradigm?: FTC’s Proposed Settlement Casts Doubt On the Sufficiency of Disclosures in Privacy Policies and User Agreements, 8 PVLR 1070 (2009) [PDF]
Wednesday, October 19: Information Licensing and Consumer Protection
- Mortenson v. Timberline, 140 Wn.2d 568 (2000) [PDF]
- Williams v. AOL, 43 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d. 1101 (2001) [PDF]
Week 9
Monday, October 24: Hot News
- NBA v. Motorola, 105 F.3d 841 (1997) (§§ I and II) [HTML]
Wednesday, October 26: Access and Authorization
- United States v. Lori Drew: Opinion [PDF]
- Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc., 381 F.3d 1178 (Fed. Cir. 2004) Except Discussion A- C (roughly pp. 1188-1192)
- [Optional]Kerr, Orin S., “Cybercrime’s Scope: Interpreting ‘Access’ an ‘Authorization’ in Computer Misuse Statutes,” NYU Law Rev. Vol. 78 No.5, pp. 1596-1668, November 2003
Week 10
Monday, October 31: Tying it together
- FACEBOOK, INC. v. POWER VENTURES, INC., Dist. Court, ND California 2009
- FACEBOOK, INC. v. POWER VENTURES, INC., Dist. Court, ND California 2010 (Read: Section IV A & B)
Wednesday, November 2: Copyright in Software
Guest Lecturer: Professor Brian Carver
- Data East v. Epyx, 862 F.2d 204 (9th Cir. 1988) [HTML]
- Apple v. Microsoft, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994) [HTML]
- Lotus v. Borland, 49 F.3d 807 (1st. Cir. 1995) [HTML]
- Complaint: Tetris Holding LLC et. al. v. XIO Interactive [HTML] [PDF]
Week 11
Monday, November 7: Liability for Defective Information
Wednesday, November 9: Liability for Content Created and/or Posted by Others Section 230
- 17 USC § 230 (protection for blocking/screening; link HTML)
- Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley, et al. v. Roommates.com LLC (Majority Opinion Only) [PDF]
Week 12
Monday, November 14: Liability for Content Content Created and/or Posted by Others
- DMCA
- 17 USC § 512; SKIP: skip § 512 e-f, h, j (safe harbors; all links HTML)
- Summary Judgment: Viacom Int’l Inc., et al., v. YouTube, Inc., et al., Nos. 07-Civ-2103 (LLS), 07-Civ-3582 (LLS). (S.D.N.Y., 2010) SKIP: §3 and 4a [PDF]
- Optional: Urban, J., Quilter, L., “Efficient Process or ‘Chilling Effects’? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,” Executive Summary (2006). [PDF]
- Explore Google/YouTube’s ContentID tool: What is YouTube’s Content ID tool?
Wednesday, November 16: Technology Design and Liability
Copyright
- Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) Excerpt. Read majority opinion [HTML]
- MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. 545 U.S. 913 (2005). Read majority opinion (OPTIONAL: read Justice Breyer’s concurring opinion.) [PDF]
Week 13
Monday, November 21: Technology Design and Liability
Privacy
- 18 USC § 2512 (electronic communication interception devices; links HTML)
- United States of America v. The Spy Factory, Inc. 951 F. Supp. 450; U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108 (1997). Read the first two paragraphs of the background and then section II B 1 to the end (starts bottom of page 21) [PDF]
Wednesday, November 23: Privacy, Surveillance and the Government
TBA
Week 14
Monday, November 28: Rules in the Workplace
Guest Lecturer: Chris Ridder
- Definition of “work made for hire” [HTML]
- Ownership of Copyright [HTML]
- Wexler v. Greenberg, 399 Pa. 569 (1959) [Google Scholar]
- Whyte v. Schlage, 101 Cal. App. 4th 1443 (2002) [Google Scholar]
- Edwards v. Andersen, 44 Cal. 4th 937 (2008) [Google Scholar]
- Please skim: A confidentiality and invention assignment agreement: http://hrforms.thompson.com/samples/HFHRT015_sample.pdf
- Please skim:
An invention disclosure form: http://tech.uchicago.edu/docs/uctech_inventiondisclosure.pdf
Wednesday, November 30: Electronic Communications and Privacy
- 18 USC 2701-2703
- Refer to definitions from 18 USC 2510 as needed to understand.Consider:
- Under what standard can the government access your email from your internet service provider?
- What if your ISP can access your email for purposes other than storage and processing?
- Under what standard can the government access search terms you enter?
- How is a search engine classified under the statute?
- Under what standard can government access location information held by an electronic communication service provider?