LAW 922: Regulation of the Internet Seminar
This course will first survey the gamut of Internet-related legislation and then focus on a few of the leading current or recent legislative initiatives, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Signature laws and related efforts to regulate online licensing agreements, proposed state and federal privacy legislation to regulate the flow of personal information, and international efforts to control domain name registration. Related legislative developments that will be surveyed include: the Online Child Protection Act, the European Privacy Directive, the No Electronic Theft Act, the Internet Tax Freedom Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, state law attempts to regulate junk e-mail, to install filtering devices in governmental workplaces and public libraries, and Internet gambling legislation. Pre-or co-requisite: Copyright Law. Enrollment limited. [3 credit hours]
