Advanced Commercial Law: Law of Electronic Commerce (LAW 6386)

SMU Dedman School of Law

Dallas, Texas

 

Peter S. Vogel, Adjunct

Fall 2009

(Monday, 8:00 – 9:40 am)

(101 Florence)

 

 (updated August 27, 2009)

 

Take Home Final Exam Beginning November 30, 2009 and must be returned to the Registrar by 5pm on December 17, 2009.

 

Class#1 - August 24, 2009 Five Big Bang Theory: History of the Internet and e-Commerce

 

A Brief History of the Internet: by those who made the history, including Barry M. Leiner , Vinton G. Cerf , David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Lawrence G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff.

 

The Internet: A Short History of Getting Connected, http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/internet/


Class#2 – August 31, 2009 Formation of Electronic Contracts

 

ProCD v. Zeidenberg 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996) http://www.law.emory.edu/7circuit/june96/96-1139.html

              

Groff v. AOL http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dlother/groff.html

Hotmail Corp. v. Van$ Money Pie, Inc., 47 U.S.P.Q 2d 1020 (BNA) (N.D. Cal. April 16, 1998) http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property00/alternatives/hotmail.html

 

Caspi v. Microsoft Network, L.L.C., No. A-2182-97T5 (Sup. Ct. N.J., July 2, 1999) http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dlother/caspi.html

Specht et al v. Netscape http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/2nd/case/017860&exact=1

Feldman v. Google, Inc., 2007 WL 966011 (E.D. Pa. March 29, 2007) Feldman v. Google 2007.pdf


Class#3 - September 14, 2009 Jurisdiction & Venue

 

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

Mink v. AAAA, 190 F.3d 333 (5th Cir. 1999) http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dlother/mink.html

Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F. Supp. 44 (D.D.C. 1998) http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/drudge/80423opin.htm

Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et L’ Antisemitisme., DC No. CV-00-21275-JF (9th Cir). Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre LeRacisme et L’ Antisemitisme.

Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roomates.com LLC, No. 04-56916 (9th Cir., May 15, 2007) Fair-Housing-Council-Roomate.com-9th-Cir.pdf

 

Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc., No. CIV.A.06 4925 (E.D. Pennsylvania, May 30, 2007) http://pub.bna.com/eclr/064925_053007.pdf

Class#4 – September 21, 2009 UETA, e-Sign, and e-Filing

 

Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=106_cong_bills&docid=f:s761enr.txt.pdf

Texas Uniform Electronic Transaction Act (UETA) UETA Chapter 322 Business & Commerce Code.pdf

Texas Department of Information Resources http://www.dir.state.tx.us/standards/UETA_Guideline.htm

Texas electronic filing (e-Filing) http://www.texasonline.state.tx.us/portal/tol/en/info

US EC/CFM http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/cmecf/

M.A.  Mortenson Co. v. Timberline Software Corp., et al. http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dlother/mortensonopinion.html

WIREdata, Inc. v. Village of Sussex, No. 2005AP1473 (Wisc. App., January 3, 2007) http://www.wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=27629

Class#5 – September 28, 200 9Intellectual Property

US PTO http://www.uspto.gov/

US Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/

Uniform Trade Secrets Act (National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws) http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/archives/ulc/fnact99/1980s/utsa85.htm

Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/464_US_417.htm

Panavision International v. Toeppen (9th Cir. 1997)   http://trudalane.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/panavision-international-v-toeppen-abridged.pdf

Madonna Ciccone, p/k/a Madonna v. Dan Parisi and "Madonna.com" (WIPO 2000)  http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2000/d2000-0847.html

Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 00 Civ. 0277 (LAK) (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 2, 2000)   http://cryptome.org/dvd-mpaa-3-mo.htm

Perfect 10 v. Amazon (9th Cir. 2007)  Perfect 10 v Amazaon.pdf

Capitol Records, Inc. v. Does 1-16,  No. 07-485 (D.N.M, May 24, 2007) http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDFfull.asp?filename=capitol_does1-16_070524OrderDenyExParteApplication

Class#6 - October 5, 2009 Spam, Phishing, Spyware, and VOIP

 

OnGuard Online http://www.onguardonline.gov/index.html

 

FTC http://www.ftc.gov/spam/

 

CAN SPAM http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/ecommerce/bus61.shtm

 

FTC v. Phoenix Avatar, LLC http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0423084/040506pi0423084.pdf

 

FTC v. Global Web Promotions http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0423086/040428globalwebcomplaint.pdf

 

US v. Daniel Lin http://www.ftc.gov/os/2004/04/040429phhoenixavatarcriminalcmplt.pdf

 

FBI http://www.fbi.gov/

 

FTC: How Not to Get Hooked by a ‘Phishing’ Scam http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt127.shtm

 

FTC: Spyware http://www.ftc.gov/spyware

 

FCC: VOIP http://www.fcc.gov/voip/

Class#7 - October 12, 2009 Search Engines, Publishing, Wikis, and Blogs

Google http://www.google.com/

Bing http://www.bing.com/

Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com/

AOL http://www.aol.com/

Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/

New York Times Co., Inc., et al. v. Tasini et al. (US SCT 2001) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=00-201

Federal Communications Commission http://www.fcc.gov/

 

Broadband over Power Lines http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-266773A1.pdf

 

Wikipedoa http://www.wikipedia.org/

 

LexBlog http://www.lexblog.com/

 

Class#8 – October 19, 2009 Social Networking and Privacy

 

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/

 

FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/home.php

 

MySpace http://www.myspace.com/

 

Twitter  http://twitter.com/

 

FTC Identity Theft http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm

 

Electronic Privacy Information Center http://www.epic.org/

 

Electronic Frontier Foundation  http://www.eff.org/

 

Privacy International http://www.privacyinternational.org/

 

EU Data Protection Directive http://www.cdt.org/privacy/eudirective/EU_Directive_.html

 

US Department of Commerce – Safe Harbor http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/

 

California Office of Privacy Protection http://www.privacy.ca.gov/

 

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada http://www.privcom.gc.ca/legislation/index_e.asp

Class#9 - October 26, 2009 PayPal, eBay, Internet Payment and B2C

PayPal https://www.paypal.com/

 

eBay http://www.ebay.com/

 

PaymentsNation http://www.paymentsnation.com/

 

FTC v. Verity (S.D. NY 2004)  http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0023386/040927memo0023386.pdf

 

Federal Reserve http://www.federalreserve.gov/

 

Electronic Funds Transfer Association http://www.efta.org

 

National ACH Association http://www.nacha.org

Class#10 - November 2, 2009 EDI and B2B

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: Competition Policy in the World of B2B Electronic Marketplaces http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/10/b2breport.pdf

FTC Terminates HSR Waiting Period for Covisint B2B Venture (September 11, 2000) http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/09/covisint.htm

Covisint http://www.covisint.com

RosettaNet http://www.rosettanet.org/cms/sites/RosettaNet/

Class#11 - November 9, 2009 Antitrust

US v. Microsoft (DC Cir. 2004) http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f204400/204468.htm

US v. Microsoft (D.C. 2009) http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f245100/245110.htm

Google and DoubleClick http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0710170/index.shtm

FTC – Competition in the Technology Marketplace http://www.ftc.gov/bc/tech/index.htm

EU Antitrust: Commission statement on Microsoft Internet Explorer announcement http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/09/272&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Class#12 - November 16, 2009 Crime and Security

U.S. v. Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir. 1991) http://www.loundy.com/CASES/US_v_Morris2.html

Thrifty-Tel, Inc. v. Bezenek, 46 Cal. App. 4th 1559 (1996) Thrifty-Tel v Bezenek.pdf

U.S. v. Czubinski, 106 F.3d 1069 (1st Cir. 1997) http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/feb97/96-1317.01a.html

FTC v. Craig Lee Hare (S.D. Fla. 4/98) FTC v. Hare.htm

US v. Cohen (2nd Cir. 2000) http://pub.bna.com/eclr/001574.htm

US v. Corrar (N.D. Ga 2007) US v Corrar 2007.pdf

US v. Kichinka (indictment May, 2007) http://www.cybercrime.gov/kichinkaIndict.htm

 

2600 http://www.2600.com/

 

CERT http://www.cert.org/

 

Cyberspace Policy Review http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Cyberspace_Policy_Review_final.pdf

 

Class#13 - –November 23, 2009 Domain Names, Open Source, Software Police, and Regulating Music

 

Panavision Int'l, L.P. v. Toeppen, 141 F.3d 1316 (9th Cir. 1998) http://trudalane.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/panavision-international-v-toeppen-abridged.pdf

              

ICANN http://www.icann.org/

 

ICANN http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm

                              

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Management of Internet Names and Addresses White Paper, June 5, 1998, http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/6_5_98dns.htm

 

Barney’s New York v. BNY http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2000/d2000-0059.html

 

Classic Metal Roofs, LLC v. Interlock Industries, Ltd. Classic Metal Roofs v. Interlock.pdf

 

Open Source http://www.opensource.org/

 

Business Software Alliance http://www.bsa.org/

 

Software & Information Industry Association http://www.siia.net/default.asp

 

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Grokster  http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/

 

Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) http://www.riaa.com

     

Class#14 – November 30, 2009 Issues for the Future, Course Review

 

Take Home Final Exam Beginning November 30, 2009 and must be returned to the Registrar by 5pm on December 17, 2009.