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Nov 29, 2024
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LAW 2896 - Law in Cyberspace
This course examines the distinctive legal issues presented by the new terrain of cyberspace. Among other topics, the course examines constraints on speech in cyberspace (including efforts to prohibit obscenity and how libel law applies in cyberspace); privacy and anonymity issues (including the rights of employees against employers, and individuals against the government); questions of jurisdiction over Internet conduct; issues arising in the context of Web-based commerce (relating, for instance, to e-cash and anonymous payment systems, as well as to “spamming,” the intensified Internet equivalent of junk mail); and intellectual property issues (including rights to Internet domain names, temporary copies of Web materials, rights in databases, and new international approaches to intellectual property regulation on the Web). Throughout, the course confronts the peculiar difficulties of governing cyberspace, and possible alternatives to traditional forms of public regulation.
Credits: 2
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