Prof. Julie E. Cohen
jec@law.georgetown.edu
Cyberspace and the Law Seminar
Georgetown University Law Center
Spring 2001
Week 6: Who Owns Cyberspace?, Part I/Privacy, Anonymity, and Accountability,
Part I: Employers, Access Providers, and Online Speech
Required Reading:
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O'Connor v. Ortega,
480 U.S. 709 (1987).
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18 U.S.C. § 1708.
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Smyth
v. The Pillsbury Co., 914 F. Supp. 97 (E.D. Pa. 1996).
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H.R.
1218 (102d Cong.), Privacy for Consumers and Workers Act.
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Jonathan Rabinovitz, Intel
Gadfly at it Again, San Jose Mercury News (July 5, 1999).
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Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Intel
v. Hamidi Web page.
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Kaitlin Quistgaard, Caveat
Poster: Online Anonymity Is Under Siege By a Barrage of Court Orders --
And No One Is Fighting Them, Salon (April 20, 1999).
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Bruce D. Fischman, Protecting
the Value of Your Goodwill from Online Assault (March 2000).
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Press Release, John
Doe Fights Back by Suing Yahoo! for Privacy Infringement (May 11, 2000).
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David L. Sobel, The
Process that "John Doe" Is Due: Addressing the Legal Challenge to Internet
Anonymity, 5 Va. J.L. & Tech. 3 (2000).
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Feminist Majority Foundation Online, "Nuremberg
Files" Creator Sues Mindspring, Feminist News (June 11, 1999).
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Earthlink, Acceptable
Use Policy.
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Georgetown University, Computer
Systems Acceptable Use Policy.
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Home Web page of Arthur R. Butz.
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Urofsky v. Gilmore,
216 F.3d 401 (4th Cir. 2000).
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Robert M. O'Neil, Free Speech in the College Community, 29 Ariz. St. L.J.
537 (1997) [in reader only, or obtain via WESTLAW or LEXIS]
Recommended Reading:
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Rod Dixon, Windows
Nine-to-Five: Smyth v. Pillsbury and the Scope of an Employee's Right
of Privacy in Computer Communications, 2 Va. J.L. & Tech. 4 (1998).
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Mark S. Dichter & Michael S. Burkhardt, Electronic
Interaction in the Workplace: Monitoring, Retrieving and Storing Employee
Communications in the Internet Age (June 1999).
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Explore the SurfControl
Web site.
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ACLU of Florida, Hvide
v. Does 1-8 Web page.
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David J. Goldstone, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cyber Forum:
Public vs. Private in Cyberspace Speech, 69 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1 (1998).
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David G. Post, Pooling Intellectual
Capital: Thoughts on Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Limited Liability
in Cyberspace, 1996 U. Chi. Legal. F. 139.