Advanced Commercial Law: Law of Electronic Commerce (LAW 6202)

SMU Dedman School of Law

Dallas, Texas

 

Peter S. Vogel, Adjunct

Fall 2007

(Monday, 8:00 – 9:40 am)

(101 Florence)

 

 (updated October 28, 2007)

 

Take Home Final Exam Beginning December 3, 2007 and must be returned to the Registrar by 5pm on December 20, 2007.

 

Class#1 - August 27, 2007 History of the Internet and e-Commerce Course Overview

Sharon Eisner Gillett & Mitchell Kapor, The Self-governing Internet: Coordination by Design (September 1996), http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP197/CCSWP197.html

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. A Spanish-language translation is also available.


Class#2 – September 10, 2007 Formation of Electronic Contracts

 

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

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

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

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


Class#3 - September 17, 2007 Intellectual Property

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

Panavision International v. Toeppen (9th Cir. 1997)   http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=9th&navby=docket&no=9755467

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

Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=464&invol=417

Perfect 10 v. Amazon (9th Cir. 2007) http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/DE8297F56287C0BC882572DC007DACC6/$file/0655405.pdf

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

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#4 - September 24, 2007 Jurisdiction & Venue

Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roomates.com LLC, No. 04-56916 (9th Cir., May 15, 2007) http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/870C17829A420BDA882572DC0051EC26/$file/0456916.pdf?openelement

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

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

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

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.

Class#5 – October 1, 2007 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 43 Texas Business and 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/app.jsp?language=eng&pageId=info

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#6 - October 8, 2007 Internet Payment and B2C

National Clearing House Association http://www.thencha.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#7 - October 15, 2007 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

Class#8 - October 22, 2007 Publishing, Wikis, and Blogs

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

 

WIKIPEDIA http://www.wikipedia.org/

Class#9 - October 29, 2007 Crime and Security

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

US vs Cohen (2nd Cir. 2000) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=2nd&navby=case&no=001574

Thrifty-Tel, Inc. v. Bezenek, 46 Cal. App. 4th 1559 (1996) http://www.law.seattleu.edu/fachome/chonm/Cases/bezenek.html

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

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

2600 http://www.2600.com/

 

Free Kevin Mitnick http://www.freekevin.com/

 

CERT http://www.cert.org/

 

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

Class#10 – November 5, 2007 Antitrust

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

US v. Oracle (ND Calif. Sept 9 2004) Finding of Facts and Conclusions of Law. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f205300/205388.pdf

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

Class#11 - November 12, 2007 Spam, Phishing, Spyware, and VOIP

 

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

 

CAN SPAM http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.htm

 

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/conline/pubs/alerts/phishingalrt.htm

 

FTC: Spyware http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/spywarealrt.htm

 

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

 
Class#12 - November 19, 2007 Privacy

 

Electronic Privacy Information Center http://www.epic.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#13 - –November 26, 2007 Domain Names, Open Source, Software Police, and Regulating Music

 

Panavision Int'l, L.P. v. Toeppen, 141 F.3d 1316 (9th Cir. 1998) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=9th&navby=docket&no=9755467

              

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Novell Anti-Piracy http://www.novell.com/programs/piracy/program.html

 

Defending Your Business http://www.bsadefense.com/

 

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 – December 3, 2007 Issues for the Future, Course Review

 

Take Home Final Exam Beginning December 3, 2007 and must be returned to the Registrar by 5pm on December 20, 2007.