Syllabus

Week 1: Jan. 2 - Jan. 5

Day 1: Introduction

(Wed. Jan. 2)

• Readings:
  • Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (Forthcoming 2008), Chapters 1-2
  • Worldwide but Homegrown, New York Times, Oct. 30, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/opinion/30sun2.html

Day 2

(Thu. Jan. 3)

• Readings:

Day 3

(Fri. Jan. 4)

• Readings:
  • Debora Spar, Ruling the Waves

Week 2: Jan. 7 - Jan. 11

Day 4 (Intermediary Liability)

(Mon. Jan. 7)

• Readings:
  • Communications Decency Act § 230
  • Cases and case studies related to the CDA:
    • Doe v. MySpace, 474 F.Supp.2d 843 (W.D. Tex. 2007)
    • Fair Housing Council v. Roommate.com, 489 F.3d 921 (9th Cir. 2007)
    • Zeran v. America Online, Inc., 129 F.3d 327, 328 (4th Cir. 1997)
    • John Siegenthaler controversy on Wikipedia
• Assignment due today: Edit Wikipedia

Day 5

(Tue. Jan. 8)

• Readings:
  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act § 512
  • Viacom complaint against Google/Youtube
  • User-generated content?
    • UCG Principles document
    • EFF/Berkman Fair Use Principles for User Generated Video Content
  • Internet Archive (browse)

Day 6

(Wed. Jan. 9)

• Readings:
  • Sony v. Universal, 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
  • MGM v. Grokster, 545 U.S. 913 (2005)
    • MGM v. Grokster Permanent Injunction
  • Randy Picker, Rewinding Sony: The Evolving Product, Phoning Home and the Duty of Ongoing Design (is SSRN working paper OK? or do we want piece published in case western l rev?)
  • Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

Day 7

(Thu. Jan. 10)

• Readings:
  • Zittrain, Technological Complements to Copyright, pp. ??? -- Available in the Coop or printed packets
  • Julie Cohen, "Copyright and the Jurisprudence of Self-Help" (pp. 1-13?)
  • Third-party development
    • Facebook Developers Terms of Service
    • iPhone development info (need password) (probably not going to be much here until feb)
  • Carl Kaplan, Assessing Linking Liability (NY Times description of Corley) (should we include the actual opinion?)
  • Zittrain, The Future of the Internet, chap. 5

Day 8

(Fri. Jan 11)

• Readings:

Week 3: Jan. 14 - Jan. 18

Day 9

(Mon. Jan. 14)

• Readings:

Day 10

(Tue. Jan. 15)

• Readings:

Day 11

(Wed. Jan. 16)

• Readings:
  • Ex Parte Filing United States DOJ In the Matter of Broadband Industry Practices
  • Proposal for Use of Search Engines to Administer the Internet and Next Steps (sensitive)

Day 12

(Thu. Jan. 17)

• Readings:

Day 13

(Fri. Jan. 18)

• Readings:
  • OLPC
    • Frank Bajak, Laptop project enlivens Peruvian village (AP)
    • Steve Stecklow & James Bandler, A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions (WSJ)
  • Zittrain, The Future of the Internet, Conclusion