Prof. Julie E. Cohen
jec@law.georgetown.edu
Cyberspace and the Law Seminar
Georgetown University Law Center
Spring 2001
Week 11: Who Owns Cyberspace?, Part III/Privacy, Anonymity, and
Accountability, Part V: A Private Law of Intellectual Property?
Required Reading:
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ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg,
86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1997).
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Mark Stefik, Shifting
the Possible: How Trusted Systems and Digital Property Rights Challenge
Us to Rethink Digital Publishing, 12 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 137 (1997).
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title I, §§ 103-104, 17
U.S.C. §§ 1201-1204.
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Universal
City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 294 (S.D.N.Y. 2000).
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Jane C. Ginsburg, From
Having Copies to Experiencing Works: The Development of an Access Right
in U.S. Copyright Law, in Hugh Hansen, ed., U.S. Intellectual Property:
Law and Policy (Sweet & Maxwell, 2000).
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John Browning, Libraries
Without Walls for Books Without Pages: Electronic Libraries and the Information
Economy, Wired 1.01 (Mar./Apr. 1993).
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Julie E. Cohen, Copyright
and the Jurisprudence of Self-Help, 13 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1089 (1998).
Recommended Reading:
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John Perry Barlow, The
Economy of Ideas: A Framework for Rethinking Patents and Copyrights
in the Digital Age, Wired 2.03, March 1994, at 84.
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Eric Schlachter, The
Intellectual Property Renaissance in Cyberspace: Why Copyright Law
Could Be Unimportant on the Internet, 12 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 15 (1997).
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J. Bradford DeLong & A. Michael Froomkin, Speculative
Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy (draft Nov. 22 1999).
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Explore the Digital Future Coalition Web
site.
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Explore the Electronic Frontier Foundation's MPAA
DVD Cases Archive.
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Uniform Computer
Information Transactions Act, (Final Act 2000).
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Jean Braucher, The Uniform
Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA): Objections From The Consumer
Perspective (Aug. 15, 2000).
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Explore the UCITA Online Web
site.
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Explore the Americans for Fair Electronic
Commerce Transactions Web site.