LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY

LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY

Computer Science 181b

Fall 2001

UPDATED 8/27/01

Meets Mon. & Wed. 1:00-2:15 p.m.

in Room 500, Watson Hall

Instructor:

Robert Dunne

Watson Hall, Room 208A

Email: robert.dunne@yale.edu

COURSE SYLLABUS

Required Reading

Cases as assigned below

Eoghan Casey, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Academic Press, 2000

Mike Godwin, Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age, MIT Press (Note: may not be available for the fall term)

Recommended Reading

Peter Ludlow, ed., High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace, 1996

Clifford Stohl, Silicon Snakeoil: Second Thoughts on the Information Superhighway (1995)

Class Assignments

September 5: Introduction

Part One: Intellectual Property Issues

Week of September 10: Displays, Output, and User Interfaces

Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994)
Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., 964 F.2d 965 (9th Cir. 1992)

Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International, Inc., 49 F.3d 807 (1st Cir. 1995), aff'd by an equally divided court, 516 U.S. 233 (1996)

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation, 203 F.3d 596 (9^th Cir. 2000)

Week of September 17: Electronic Publishing and Distribution

Amsinck v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 862 F. Supp. 1044 (S.D.N.Y. 1994)

Recording Industry Association of America v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., 180 F.3d 1072 (9^th Cir. 1999)

Universal Studios, Inc., et al v. Shawn C. Reimerdes, et al, 82 F. Supp. 2d 211(S.D.N.Y. 2000)

New York Times v. Tasini, 121 S.Ct. 2381 (2001)

Week of September 24: Trademark Problems of Domain Names, Metatags, and Keywords

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Bucci, 42 U.S.P.Q.2d 1430 (S.D.N.Y. 1997)

Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corporation, 174 F.3d 1036 (9^th. Cir. 1999)

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles, 7 F.Supp.2d 1098 (S.D. Cal. 1998)

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Excite, Inc., 55 F.Supp.2d 1070 (C.D. Cal. 1999)

Week of October 1: Trade Secrets and Confidentiality on the World Wide Web

Barr-Mullin, Inc. v. Browning, 424 S.E.2d 226 (N.C. App. 1993)

Religious Technology Center v. Lerma, 897 F. Supp. 260 (E.D. Va. 1995)

Rivendell Forest Products v. Georgia-Pacific Corp., 28 F.3d 1042 (10^th Cir. 1994)

Part 2: Networks and Privacy Issues

Week of October 8: Data Communications

United States v. Smith, 978 F.2d 171 (5th Cir. 1992)

United States v. Davis, 978 F.2d 415 (8th Cir. 1992)

HotMail Corporation v. Van Money Pie, Inc., 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10729 (N.D. Cal.)

Week of October 15: Data Communications (continued)

United States v. Daccarett, 6 F.3d 37 (2d Cir. 1993)

Brown v. Waddell, 50 F.3d 285 (4th Cir. 1995)

United States v. Maxwell, 42 M.J. 568 (Air Force Ct. Crim. App. 1995)

Smyth v. Pillsbury Co., 914 F. Supp. 97 (E.D. Pa. 1996)

Week of October 22: Data Communications (continued)

McVeigh v. Cohen, 983 F.Supp. 215 (D.D.C. 1998)

Ebay, Inc. v. Bidder’s Edge, Inc., 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7287 (N.D. Cal.)

Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp., 77 F.Supp.2d 1116 (C.D. Cal. 1999)

Week of October 29: Databases and Privacy Rights

Dr. K. v. State Board of Physician Quality Assurance, 632 A.2d 453 (Md. Ct. App. 1993)

State v. City of Akron, 640 N.E.2d 164 (Ohio 1994)
Tribune-Review Publishing Company v. Allegheny County Housing Authority, 662 A.2d 677 (Pa. 1995)

Taylor v. Internal Revenue Service, 186 B.R. 441 (N.D. Iowa 1995)

Casella v. Equifax Information Servs., 56 F.3d 469 (2d Cir. 1995)
DEADLINE FOR APPROVAL OF PAPER TOPICS

Part 3: Jurisdiction

Week of November 5: The "Seamless Web" and Jurisdiction

Digital Equipment Corp. v. Altavista Technology, Inc., 960 F. Supp. 456 (D. Mass. 1997)

Zippo Mfg. Co. v. Zippo Dot Com, Inc., 952 F. Supp. 1119 (W.D. Pa. 1997)

People v. Lipsitz, 663 N.Y.S.2d 468 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1997)

United States v. Stevens, 842 F. Supp. 96 (S.D.N.Y. 1994).

Part 4: The First Amendment in Cyberspace

Week of November 12: Access Controls and the First Amendment

People v. Barrows, 664 N.Y.S.2d 410 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1997)

ACLUv. Reno, 2000 U.S. app. lexis 14419

Junger v. Daley, 209 F.3d 481 (6^th Cir. 2000)

FALL RECESS

Week of November 26: The Technology of Pornography

Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969)

United States v. Thomas, 893 F.2d 1066 (9th Cir. 1990)

U.S. v. Hilton, 999 F.Supp. 131 (D. Maine 1998)

U.S. v. Hilton, 167 F.3d 61 (1^st Cir. 1999)

The Free Speech Coalition v. Reno, 198 F.3d 1083 (9^th Cir. 1999)

Part 5: The Criminal Law in Cyberspace

Week of December 3: The Digital Criminal

United States v. Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir. 1991)

Jackson v. State, 636 So.2d 1372 (Fla. App. 1994)

United States v. Meriwether, 918 F.2d 955 (6th Cir. 1990)

State v. Riley, 8476 P.2d 1365 (Wash. 1993)

People v. Krause, 609 N.E.2d 980 (Ill. 1993)

State v. Corcoran, 522 N.W.2d 226 (Wis. App. 1994)

American Tel. & Tel. v. Jiffy Lube Int'l, Inc., 813 F. Supp. 1164 (D. Md. 1993)

Werner, Zaroff, Slotnick, Stern & Askenazy v. Lewis, 588 N.Y.S.2d 960 (Civ. Ct. N.Y County 1992)