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The Web That Binds Us All: The Future Legal Environment of the Internet, in Houston Journal of International Law » Read Now
by Howard L. Steele Jr. 23 pgs.

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...A. Contract Law Paradigm Prior to the massive influx of people onto the Internet, the vastly homogenous...regard to cyber-law. Considering the speed at which Internet crime...
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Law and Policy in the Age of the Internet, in Duke Law Journal » Read Now
by Robert E. Litan. 42 pgs.

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...questions about jurisdiction on the Internet. Whose law governs taxation, privacy...Decentralized, Emergent Law, in COORDINATING THE INTERNET 62-91 (Brian Kahin...
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Law in a Digital World » Read Now
by M. Ethan Katsh. 296 pgs.

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The world of law is a world of information. Rules, judgments, decisions, interpretations, and agreements all involve using and communicating information. Today, we are experiencing a significant transition, from letters fixed on paper to information stored electronically. The digital era, where...
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The world of law is a world of information. Rules, judgments, decisions, interpretations, and agreements all involve using and communicating information. Today, we are experiencing a significant transition, from letters fixed on paper to information stored electronically. The digital era, where information is created, stored, and communicated electronically, is quickly approaching, if not already here. The future of law will no longer be found in impressive buildings and leather-bound books, but in small pieces of silicon, in streams of light, and in millions of miles of wires and cable. It will be a world of new relationships and greater possibilities for individual and group communication, an environment where the value of information increases as it is shared. In Law in a Digital world, M. Ethan Katsh explores how these new technologies will alter one of our most central institutions. He considers the different ways in which people will not only electronically read and write, but also interact with our vast storehouses of legal knowledge and information. He envisions how sounds and pictures will play into the largely imageless print world of law, and looks at the future importance of graphic and nontextual communication. He explores how the flexible, personalized organization of data will transform the way we gather information, and whether information can or cannot be contained, raising questions of copyright and privacy. What happens to the law when information is more plentiful and accessible? What happens to those people who suddenly have access to information never before available? Does the use of information in a new form change the institution, the user, and those who come in contact with the user? And, what role does the lawyer play in all of this? For citizens, for lawyers, for all those who will be part of the digital world rushing toward us, Katsh answers these questions while considering the implications of this new era.
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The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology ("The Future of Lawyers and the Role of the World Wide Web" begins on p. xliv) » Read Now
by Richard Susskind. 312 pgs.

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Written by a leading expert on computers and law, this important new book book shows exactly why and how information technology (IT) will radically alter the practice of law and the administration of justice. Beyond automating and streamlining traditional ways of providing legal advice, IT is...
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Written by a leading expert on computers and law, this important new book book shows exactly why and how information technology (IT) will radically alter the practice of law and the administration of justice. Beyond automating and streamlining traditional ways of providing legal advice, IT is re-engineering the entire legal process, resulting in legal products and information services whose focus will be dispute pre-emption rather than dispute resolution, and legal risk management rather than legal problem solving. With easy and inexpensive access available, IT will help integrate the law with business and domestic life. This book considers the implications, opportunities, and challenges for all concerned in the information society. The IT revolution cannot be ignored, and this book is essential reading for all those who would successfuly adapt to the changes and challenges IT brings.
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Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm » Read Now
by Peter Huber. 272 pgs.

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When the U.S. Congress created the Federal Radio Commission in 1927, what we now call cyberspace was just "ether." Broadcasting had only begun to carry tinny human voices and music across the fields and prairies, while Sunday afternoon phone calls to Aunt Mabel snaked through wires below, courtesy...
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When the U.S. Congress created the Federal Radio Commission in 1927, what we now call cyberspace was just "ether." Broadcasting had only begun to carry tinny human voices and music across the fields and prairies, while Sunday afternoon phone calls to Aunt Mabel snaked through wires below, courtesy of an army of operators who switched each circuit by hand. It didn't take long, though, for the wires and airwaves to fill up with untrammeled chatter, so much so that by 1934 after complaints by the Navy that ship to shore communications had become hopelessly chaotic, and under the unproved but widely held belief that the broadcast spectrum was a finite natural resource all federal authority over electronic communications was forged into a new, powerful Federal Communications Commission. The amount of information traversing the airwaves has increased a million fold since 1927, but has the FCC changed along with the technology? The answer, according to Peter W. Huber, in Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm, is an emphatic No. In this well researched, lively, even witty polemic, Huber recounts the history of telecommunications over the last century to argue that the FCC "should have been extinguished years ago." With scarcity of communications channels no longer an issue, and the virtual elimination of distinctions between carriage and broadcast,the Commission's anachronistic laws have no basis for existence, and have in fact impeded growth and progress to the tune of billions of lost dollars. Today, the "telecosm," that complex universe of invisible communications traffic, has expanded, supplanted, and subdivided itself many times over with each new technological breakthrough. Cable television, direct broadcast satellite, cell phones, the V chip, Caller ID, personal computers, and the Internet have transformed the world. Huber argues that large bureaucratic entities like the FCC fail to adjust to such rapidly changing technologies because they see their mission as maintaining the status quo, and that instead of preserving the rights of common citizens they actually favor rich monopolies. Addressing charged points of conflict such as free speech vs. censorship, privacy vs. right to know, and market vs. controlled pricing, Law and Disorder in Cyberspace energetically proposes that sensible national telecommunications policies evolve through common law--the accretion of decisions arrived at in specific cases where basic principles such as private property and fair business practice are challenged and upheld--and not through the top down, government imposition of inflexible regulatory mandates created in the vacuum of uninformed, theoretical disussion. Given the heated climate on Capitol Hill surrounding debate over ways to reduce federal spending, Peter Huber's arguments are timely, urgent, and meticulously documented. Law and Disorder in Cyberspace is not only informative and entertaining, but will be one of those rare books that will influences public policy before the end of this decade.
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Architecture of Consent: Internet Protocols and Their Legal Implications, in Stanford Law Review » Read Now
by Eric J. Feigin. 41 pgs.

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...The idea of applying property law to the Internet is an intuitively pleasing...The application of copyright law to the Internet is somewhat murkier than the...influenced...
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Free Expression in the Age of the Internet: Social and Legal Boundaries » Read Now
by Jeremy Harris Lipschultz. 331 pgs.

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Jeremy Harris Lipschultz is communication graduate chair and associate professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Ownership Rights » Read Now
by Debora J. Halbert. 186 pgs.

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Halbert examines the expansion of intellectual property rights in the information age. She critiques the theoretical foundations and current American approach to copyright law, and she suggests that we should not extend copyright law without critically assessing the impact such a move would have on the free exchange of information.
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Legislating the Tower of Babel: International Restrictions on Internet Content and the Marketplace of Ideas, in Federal Communications Law Journal » Read Now
by Michael F. Sutton. 22 pgs.

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...FOR SPEECH LAW HARMONIZATION Despite the need for clear notice to Internet content providers...Jurisdiction over the Internet: A Canadian...32 INTL LAW. 1027, 1028...to...
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Fighting Software Piracy in Cyberspace: Legal and Technological Solutions, in Law and Policy in International Business » Read Now
by Kory D. Christensen. 40 pgs.

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...multinational Internet piracy occurs, what law applies to the disputes, and...combined with law is the best prescription for fighting Internet piracy in...
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Deregulation Reconsidered: Protecting Internet Speech in the United States, Germany, and Japan, in Communications and the Law » Read Now
by Jae-Young Kim. 23 pgs.

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...plausibly link the Internet to public forums. As case law suggests, however...provisions of the law against racist...proscribes Internet content that...to control Internet...
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Staying Afloat in the Internet Stream: How to Keep Web Radio from Drowning in Digital Copyright Royalties, in Federal Communications Law Journal » Read Now
by Emily D. Harwood. 25 pgs.

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...COPYRIGHT LAW AND MUSICAL...B. The Birth of the Internet...copyright law, from its beginnings in the U.S. Constitution...to its post-Internet changes...
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Reno v. ACLU: The First Amendment, Electronic Media, and the Internet Indecency Issue, in Communications and the Law » Read Now
by J. Robert Craig. 14 pgs.

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...thought that the law shows limited...situations where the party initiating...material on the Internet knows that...the whole Internet indecency...reminder of the laws...
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The First Amendment and Problems of Political Viability: The Case of Internet Pornography, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy » Read Now
by Mark C. Alexander. 54 pgs.

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...unwarranted. While the law develops slowly, the Internet has exploded...Any federal law regulating Internet pornography must confront the question of what...material found...