syllabus

Class 1 (1/22):  The Basics of Cyberlaw

Readings:

• John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

• Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997)

• Zeran v. America Online, Inc., 129 F.3d 327 (4th Cir., 1997)

• eBay, Inc. v. Bidder's Edge, Inc., 100 F.Supp.2d 1058 (N.D. Cal., 2000)

• Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme Et L'Antisemitisme, 433 F.3d 1199 (9th Cir. 2006)

• WNET, Thirteen v. Aereo, Inc., 712 F.3d 676 (2nd Cir. 2013)

Class 2 (1/29):  Online Copyright Protection

Readings:

• Recording Industry Ass’n of Am. v. Diamond Multimedia Sys., Inc., 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999)

• A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001)

• In re Aimster Copyright Litigation, 334 F.3d 643 (7th Cir. 2003)

Class 3 (2/5):  Online Copyright Protection (Cont'd) and Contract-based Solutions

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. 913 (2005)

• Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas, 579 F.Supp.2d 1210 (D.Minn. 2008)

• ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996)

Class 4 (2/12):  Technology-based Solutions

Readings:

• Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Tech., Inc., 381 F.3d 1178 (Fed. Cir. 2004)

• Lexmark Int'l, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 387 F.3d 522 (6th Cir. 2004)

• Edward W. Felten, A Skeptical View of DRM and Fair Use, Comm. ACM, Apr. 2003, at 57

• Barbara L. Fox & Brian A. LaMacchia, Encouraging Recognition of Fair Uses in DRM Systems, Comm. ACM, Apr. 2003, at 61

Class 5 (2/19):  Business-oriented Solutions

Due:  Short Paper 1

Readings:

• Spotify v illegal downloads: Free but legal, Economist, July 30, 2009

• YouTube, How Content ID Works

• Electronic Frontier Foundation, A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing (2004)

• John Kelsey & Bruce Schneier, The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights, First Monday, June 7, 1999

• David Kushner, Tipping for Tunes, RollingStone.com (Mar 7, 2001)

• Evan Hansen, Simon & Schuster Offers Net-only Stephen King Novel, CNET News.com (Mar. 8, 2000)

• Sandeep Junnarkar, Horrors for Publishing Industry: King e-book Cracked, CNET News.com (Mar. 31, 2000)

• Gwendolyn Mariano, Stephen King Puts "The Plant" on Ice, CNET News.com (Nov. 28, 2000)

• Kevin Maney, Apple’s iTunes Might Not Be Only Answer to Ending Piracy, USA Today, Jan. 21, 2004, at 3B

• Rep. Howard L. Berman, The Truth About the Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act: Why Copyright Owner Self-help Must Be Part of the P2P Piracy Solution, FindLaw’s Writ: Legal Commentary (Oct. 1, 2002)

Class 6 (2/26):  Online Service Provider Liability

Readings:

• 17 U.S.C. § 512 (2012)

• Jennifer M. Urban & Laura Quilter, Efficient Process or "Chilling Effects"? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 22 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 621 (2006) Read Parts II and III Only

• Recording Indus. Ass’n of Am. v. Verizon Internet Servs., Inc., 351 F.3d 1229 (D.C. Cir. 2003)

• BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe, [2004] F.C. 488

• WNET, Thirteen v. Aereo, Inc., 712 F.3d 676 (2nd Cir. 2013) Reading from Class 1!

Class 7 (3/5):  Graduated Response and Internet Border Control

Readings:

• Copyright Alert System FAQs

• Independent Review FAQs

• The Graduated Response, 62 Fla. L. Rev. 1373 (2010) Read Part I Only

• Annemarie Bridy, Graduated Response American Style: “Six Strikes” Measured Against Five Norms, 23 Fordham Intell. Prop., Media & Ent. L.J. 1 (2012) Read Parts III and IV Only

• The Alphabet Soup of Transborder Intellectual Property Enforcement, 60 Drake L. Rev. Discourse 16 (2012) Read Part IV Only

Class 8 (3/12):  The Internet Policy Task Force Green Paper

Due:  Short Paper 2

Readings:

• Internet Policy Task Force, US Department of Commerce, Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (2013) Read II.C, III.C, IV.B and IV.C

• Copyright Modernization Act § 29.21 (Can.) Read § 29.21 Only

• Many Routes to Allowing Parodies within Hong Kong's Copyright Law, S. China Morning Post, Jan. 8, 2014

Class 9 (3/26):  Google Book Search and Mass Digitization

Readings:

• Sergey Brin, A Library to Last Forever, N.Y. Times, Oct. 8, 2009

• Pamela Samuelson. Google Books Is Not a Library, Huffington Post, Oct. 13, 2009

• Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google Inc., 2013 WL 6017130 / 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 162198

Class 10 (4/2):  Geographical Restrictions and Cloud Computing

• Region Codes and the Territorial Mess, 30 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 187 (2012) Read Parts II and III

• UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3.com, Inc., 92 F. Supp. 2d 349 (S.D.N.Y. 2000)

• Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc., 934 F. Supp. 2d 640 (S.D.N.Y. 2013)

Class 11 (4/9):  Internet Domain Names

• Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

• ICANN, About the New gTLD Program

• ICANN, New gTLD Fast Facts

• Brookfield Commc'ns, Inc. v. W. Coast Entm't Corp., 174 F.3d 1036 (9th Cir. 1999)

• Playboy Enters., Inc. v. Netscape Commc'ns Corp., 354 F.3d 1020 (9th Cir. 2004)

• Tiffany (NJ) Inc. v. eBay, Inc., 600 F.3d 93 (2nd Cir. 2010)

• Joined cases C-236/08 - 238/08, Google France S.A.R.L, Google Inc. v. LouisVuitton Malletiere SA et al., 2010 E.C.R.I-02417

Class 12 (4/16):  Global Digital IP Enforcement

• Handout 1

• Digital Copyright Enforcement Measures and Their Human Rights Threats, in Human Rights and Intellectual Property: From Concepts to Practice (Christophe Geiger ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2014) Read Section on "Digital Copyright Enforcement Measures"

• Trade Agreement Cats and the Digital Technology Mouse, in Science and Technology in International Economic Law: Balancing Competing Interests 185 (Bryan Mercurio & Ni Kuei-Jung eds., Routledge 2014) Read Section on "Eight Issues for Consideration"

Class 13 (4/23):  Paper Presentations (Cont'd)

Class 14 (4/30):  Paper Presentations (Cont'd)

Final Paper Due:  May 15, 2014