Week 12: Law & Internet Seminar (LAW 745)

 

Intellectual Property and the InfoBahn (II)

Reading:

Copy Protection Techonologies

• Divx Protects Content, But Not Your Liberties
• Review Julie E.Cohen,  A Right to Read AnonymousIy: A Closer look at "Copyright Management" in Cyberspace, 28 Conn. L. Rev. 981 (1996). [Note: this is a pdf file.]
• Using PICS to manage intellectual property rights

Copyright

Thomas G. Field, Jr., Copyright on the Internet

Trademark

• Is putting a competitor's trademark in your META tag a trademark dillution?  This complaint in OPPEDAHL & LARSON v. ADVANCED CONCEPTS argues that it is.

Dan L. Burk, Trademarks Along the Infobahn , 1 Richmond J.L. & Tech. (1995)

Doing:

The following students will be presenting their papers on Nov. 13:

Jon Gibbons:
Matthew Hoberman
Samir Masri
Ana Mato
Matthew Militzok
Homayoon Saedi

The following students will be presenting their papers on Nov. 20:

 Angela Adasme
 Marc Berger
 Jeremy Birchman
 Walter Boholst
 Todd  Borow
  Francis DePeiza

Please have the current draft of your paper on line at least 7 days before your presentation (i.e. if you are presenting on Nov. 13, please have something up by Nov. 6).  Put a link to the text in a prominent place on your homepage, and also send me email one week before your presentation telling me where it is, so I can put it on the class homepage.

Optional

• William S. Strong, Copyright in the New World of Electronic Publishing
• Oppedahl & Larson's Web Law FAQ
• The Corbis Website terms and conditions of use. This is Bill Gates's new archive of the visual images of modernity. Are these terms enforceable? Just? Reasonable? Wise? Essential? Precatory? [Added Apr. 4]
• Did Bruce Lehman really threaten to rip a law professor's throat out?
• I. Trotter Hardy, Contracts, Copyright and Preemption in a Digital World, 1 Richmond J.L. & Tech. 2 (1995).
• Dan L. Burk, Transborder Intellectual Property Issues on the Electronic Frontier, 6 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. (1994).
• Dan L. Burk, Patents in Cyberspace: Territoriality and Infringement on Global Computer Networks, 68 Tulane L. Rev. 1 (1993).
• Mark Lemley, Intellectual property and Shrinkwrap Licenses, 68 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1239 (1995).
• Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Frena, 839 F. Supp. 1552 (M.D. Fla. 1993)
• MTV Networks v. Curry, 867 F. Supp. 202 (S.D.N.Y. 1994)
• Thomas G. Field, Jr., Intellectual Property: The Practical and Legal Fundamentals
• The Great "White Paper" war
1. The White Paper.  Note especially Sections A.1 through A.8, and also Part IV ("Recommendations"). Choose from the ASCII copy or a PDF format copy or a Microsoft Word 6.0 copy or a zipped postscript copy.
2. S. 1284. Note that Congressional hearings on S. 1284 are planned for March 26, 1996; you can check here for updates. Well that was easy -- they've been postponed...
3. Critiques of the White Paper/S.1284 approach
• Prof. Pamela Samuelson's essay in WIRED, The copyright grab
• The USACM position. See also, if time permits, other USACM NII-related papers.
• Sample some of the many links from the Home Recording Rights Coalition.
4. Supporters of the White Paper/S. 1284 approach
• Commissioner Lehman (congressional testimony)
• Senator Hatch (sponsor of S. 1284)
• The software publishers
• Eight myths about S. 1284
• EFF's "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright" Archive

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