| Week 1: 1/17 & 1/19 | Week 2: 1/24 & 1/26 | Week 3: 1/31 & 2/2 |
| Week 4: 2/7 & 2/9 | Week 5: 2/14 & 2/16 | Week 6: 2/21 & 2/23 |
| Week 7: 2/28 & 3/2 | Week 8: 3/7 & 3/9 | Week 9: 3/14 & 3/16 |
| Week 10: 3/21 & 3/23 | Week 11: 3/28 & 3/30 | Week 12: 4/4 & 4/6 |
| Week 13: 4/11 & 4/13 | Week 14: 4/18 & 4/20 | Week 15: 4/25 & 4/27 |
Week 1
Monday, January 17: No Class
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Wednesday, January 19: Introduction to Information Law & Policy
- Moor, James, “What is computer ethics?” [HTML]
- Latour, Bruno, “The Moral Dilemmas of a Safety-belt” [PDF]
- Recommended: Orin S. Kerr, How to Read a Legal Opinion, 11 Green Bag 2d 51 (2007). [PDF]
Week 2
Monday, January 24: Introduction to Information Law and Policy
- 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]
- Lessig, L. (2006). Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0. New York N.Y.: Basic Books. Excerpts: Regulating Code, read from “Z-theory” section to the end; What Things Regulate, read “A Dot’s Life” section only. Links HTML.
Wednesday, January 26: Freedom of Expression
Relationship Between Architecture and State 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, January 31: Freedom of Expression and Access to Information
Regulating through Architecture and Technology
- Lloyd v. Tanner 407 U.S. 551 (1972) [HTML]
- 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]
Wednesday, February 2: Copyright
Class canceled.
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Week 4
Monday, February 7: 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, February 9: Commercial Privacy in the United States
Web Privacy Roundtable at Bancroft Hotel
- FTC Staff Report, pages 1- 35 and 52-68. Available here (see link in right side bar titled “Text of the FTC Staff Report, and Concurring Statements of Commissioner Kovacic and Commissioner Rosch”)
Week 5
Monday, February 14: Introduction to Patent
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 Pantent 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)
Wednesday, February 16: Hot News
- NBA v. Motorola, 105 F.3d 841 (1997) (§§ I and II) [HTML]
Week 6
Monday, February 21: No Class
President’s Day
Wednesday, February 23: Reusing Other People’s “Works” — Fair Use
Guest Lecturer: Professor Brian Carver
- 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 7
Monday, February 28: Contracts and Terms of Service (TOS)
- Pro-CD v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (1996) [HTML]
- Good, N., Grossklags, J., Mulligan, D., and Konstan, J. (2007). Noticing Notice: A Large-Scale Experiment on the Timing of Software License Agreements. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 607-616. [PDF]
- Aleecia McDonald (2009). The Cost of Reading Privacy Policies [PDF]
Wednesday, March 2: 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]
Thursday, March 3
Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ) Symposium
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Week 8
Monday, March 7: Copyright in Software
Guest Lecturer: Professor Jason Schultz
- 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]
Wednesday, March 9: DMCA
Guest Lecturer: Professor Jennifer Urban
- 17 USC § 512 (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) [PDF]
- 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?
Week 9
Monday, March 14: Liability for Content Created and/or Posted by Others
- 17 USC § 230 (protection for blocking/screening; link HTML)
- Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley, et al. v. Roommates.com LLC [PDF]
Wednesday, March 16: 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]
- Cardozo v. True, 342 So. 2d 1053 (1977) [PDF
- Aetna v. Jeppesen, 642 F.2d 339 (1981) [PDF]
Week 10: Spring Break!
Monday, March 21 & Wednesday, March 23
No Class: Spring Break
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Week 11
Monday, March 28: Technology Design and Liability
Copyright
- Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) Excerpt. [HTML]
- MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. 545 U.S. 913 (2005). Read majority opinion (OPTIONAL: read Justice Breyer’s concurring opinion.) [PDF]
Wednesday, March 30: 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]
Week 12
Monday, April 4: Privacy, Surveillance, and the Government
- 18 USC § 2510 (ECPA) and 18 USC §§ 2701 (SCA) [links HTML]. Excerpts.
- Digital Due Process: About the Issue & Our Principles [links HTML]
- Global Network Initiative: Principles & Implementation Guidelines [links HTML]
Wednesday, April 6: Privacy — Data Protection and 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]
- 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]
Week 13
Monday, April 11
Class canceled.
Wednesday, April 13: 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 14
Monday, April 18: Copyright Default Rules for the Workplace
Guest Lecturer: Professor Brian Carver
- Jacobsen v. Katzer, Fed. Cir., No. 08-1001, 8/13/08 [PDF]
- Artistic License [HTML]
- Dennis Kennedy, A Primer on Licensing Legal Issues: Copyright, Copyleft and Copyfuture [PDF]
Wednesday, April 20: Access and Authorization
- United States v. Lori Drew: Opinion [PDF]
- Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 294 (2000) [PDF]
Week 15
Monday, April 25: Rules in the Workplace
- 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]
- Aetna-Standard Engineering v. Rowland, 343 Pa. Superior Ct. 64 (1985) [HTML
Wednesday, April 27: Professional Ethics and Approaches
- Collins, W. R. and Miller, K. W. 1992. Paramedic ethics for computer professionals. J. Syst. Softw. 17, 1 (Jan. 1992), 23-38. [CalNet Authentication Required]
- John Morris and Alan Davidson, “Policy Impact Assessments: Considering the Public Interest in Internet Standards Development,” August 2003 Sections III- VI and appendixes [PDF]