Prof. Julie E. Cohen
jec@law.georgetown.edu
Cyberspace and the Law Seminar
Georgetown University Law Center
Spring 2001
Week 3: Speakers and Listeners in Cyberspace, Part I: Indecent
or Offensive Speech
Required Reading:
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Reno v. ACLU,
117 S. Ct. 2329 (1997).
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ACLU
v. Reno II, 217 F.3d 162 (3d Cir. 2000).
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Jonathan Weinberg, Rating
the Net, 19 Hastings Comm/Ent L.J. 453 (1997).
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W3C, Statement on the
Intent and Use of PICS: Using PICS Well (June 1998).
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Paul Resnick, ed., PICS,
Censorship, & Intellectual Freedom FAQ (Jan. 26, 1998).
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Lawrence Lessig & Paul Resnick, Zoning
Speech on the Internet: A Legal and Technical Model, 98 Mich. L. Rev.
395 (1999).
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Mainstream
Loudoun v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library, 24 F. Supp.2d
552 (E.D. Va. 1998).
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CNN.com, Cyberpatrol
Decoding Brawl Gets Ugly and International (Mar. 21, 2000).
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Microsystems
Software, Inc. v. Scandinavia Online AB, 98 F. Supp.2d 74 (D. Mass.
2000).
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Mark S. Nadel, The
First Amendment's Limitations on the Use of Internet Filtering in Public
and School Libraries: What Content Can Librarians Exclude?, 78 Tex.
L. Rev. 1117 (2000).
Recommended Reading:
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ACLU
v. Reno, 929 F. Supp. 824 (E.D. Pa. 1996).
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ACLU
v. Reno II, 31 F. Supp.2d 473 (E.D. Pa. 1999).
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Information Infrastructure
Task Force, A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce (1997) (III.8:
"Content" only) [in reader with Week 1 materials].
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Explore the PICS Web site.
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Explore The Library Channel.
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Explore the Peacefire Web site.
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Lawrence Lessig, What Things Regulate Speech, 38 Jurimetrics J. 629 (1998)
(draft
version).
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American Civil Liberties Union, Fahrenheit
451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning? How Rating and Blocking Proposals
May Torch Free Speech on the Internet (1998).
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J.M. Balkin, Beth Simone Noveck, & Kermit Roosevelt, Filtering
the Internet: A Best Practices Model (Sept. 15, 1999).
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Human Rights Watch, Freedom
of Expression on the Internet, in World Report (2000).