http://www.iitf.nist.gov/index.html

Report of the Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) was formed in 1993 to articulate and implement the Administration's vision for the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The task force consists of high-level representatives of the Federal agencies that play a major role in the development and application of information and telecommunications technologies headed by the Secretary of Commerce.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/nii/toc.html

Agenda for Action for the National Information Infrastructure

http://www.iitf.nist.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm

Clinton/Gore A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce - July 1, 1997

http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/reports.htm

Reports on privacy in the information age developed by the Federal Trade Commission.

http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/dataprot/directiv/directiv.html

European Union privacy directive on the protection of individuals on the processing of personal data and on the free movement of data

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/9806/privacy2.htm

Federal Trade Commission’s "Report to Congress on Privacy Online

http://www.thecodex.com/c_links.html

A Web site that has a collection of links to other privacy Web sites.

http://www.law.seattleu.edu/chonm/Cases/shoars.html

Appeal of Alana Shoars, an employee of Epson America, who was dismissed in a dispute involving her employer intercepting her email.

http://www.Loundy.com/CASES/Smyth_v_Pillsbury.html

An employee claims he was wrongfully discharged from his position as a regional operations manager because he made "inappropriate and unprofessional comments" when using his employer’s e-mail system on his computer at home. [Smyth v. Pillsbury Co. (E.D. Pa. January 23, 1996)]

http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/olmr/privacy.html

Summary of report on protecting privacy in computerized medical information.

http://users.aol.com/mcluf/adm.htm

ACLU "alert" on the privacy issues associated with medical insurance portability.

http://www.epic.org/privacy/medical/EPIC_Principles.txt

Electronic Privacy Information Center’s "Principles for Federal Privacy Protection of Medical Records". [main site www.epic.org ]

http://www.epistemelinks.com/Text/JSMiText.htm

John S. Mill's Essay On Liberty - Chapter 2

http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/doc/b2000.html

The Real Meaning of Free Speech in Cyberspace. Text of talk given by Jeffrey Shallit at a conference at the University of Toronto, May 1 1996. Sponsored by Electronic Frontier Canada and the Department of Computer Science - University of Waterloo

http://w3.trib.com/FACT/index.html

Web site of the First Amendment Cyber Tribune. Contains links to various other First Amendment sites.

http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/

The Electronic Frontier Foundations censorship and freedom of expression archive.

http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/doc/b2000.html

The Real Meaning of Free Speech in Cyberspace. Text of talk given by Jeffrey Shallit at a conference at the University of Toronto, May 1 1996. Sponsored by Electronic Frontier Canada and the Department of Computer Science - University of Waterloo

http://w3.trib.com/FACT/index.html

Web site of the First Amendment Cyber Tribune. Contains links to various other First Amendment sites.

http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship

The Electronic Frontier Foundations censorship and freedom of expression archive.

http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/cyber_first_amend_johnson.article

Article by David R. Johnson entitled "Volume Controls in Cyberspace? -- Hard First Amendment Questions in the Age of Electronic Networking

http://www.fcc.gov

The Federal Communications Commission’s web site.

http://www.rcfp.org/pp.html

The Privacy Paradox. Argues that news gathering and reporting are hampered by an ever-increasing wall of restrictions erected in the name of protecting personal privacy with the result of a possible loss to the public good greater than the protections gained.

http://www.rcfp.org/pp_pt2.html#a

The Privacy Paradox. Summary of various laws granting access to government records.

http://www.rcfp.org/pp_pt3.html

The Privacy Paradox. Discussion and links to information regarding access to court documents and records.

http://www.bna.com/e-law/cases/delorme.html

This is the judicial opinion in an interesting FOIA case in which DeLorme Publishing, a Maine company that makes computer mapping software, sought electronic "raster" compilations of nautical charts prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA).

http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fcra.htm

The full text of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

http://www.epistemelinks.com/Text/LockText.htm

John Locke, Concerning Civil Government Chapter V

http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Intellectual_Property

Yahoo Intellectual Property Index

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/philo/people/moore.286/IPAnthology.html

Home Page for Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii

Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure - the Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. The report explains how intellectual property law applies to Cyberspace and makes legislative recommendations to Congress to fine tune the law for the digital age.

http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s intellectual property on-line archive.

http://www.fplc.edu/ipmall

Franklin Pierce Law Center’s intellectual property mall with extensive hyperlinks to IP materials.

http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/HighTechLaw/courses/ccp/ccp1.html

Southern California University site on computer crimes and privacy.

http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/cases/morris.txt

Text of the judicial opinion from the trial of a graduate student in Cornell University's computer science program, charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, for releasing a "worm" on the internet. [United States v. Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir. 1991)]

http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/cases/lamacchi.txt

Text of the judicial opinion from the trial of a MIT student who used MIT's computer network to operate an electronic bulletin board that contained popular software programs that could be downloaded by other users. [United States v. LaMacchia, 871 F.Supp. 535 (D. Mass. 1994)]

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/4th/962412p.html

A book written as a how-to guide to becoming a professional hit man found to be "reprehensible" and "induce nausea," publishers held liable in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the survivors of three people killed by a man who followed the book's instructions.

http://snyside.sunnyside.com/cpsr/free_speech/daniel_v_dowjones.txt

Dow Jones online new service sued by subscriber who claims that he made bad investment based on false and misleading information provided by news service. [Daniel v. Dow Jones & Co., 520 N.Y.S. 2d 334 (N.Y. Civ. Ct. 1987)]

http://www.wired.com/collections/future_of_money/4.10_wriston1.html

Interview in Wired with Walter Wriston, former CEO of Citibank, on the future of money.

http://www.ios.com/~lroth/clips/emoney.html

Article from the Economist (Nov. 26, 1994) on the cashless society.

http://www.digicash.com

http://www.mondex.com/mondex

http://www.firstvirtual.com

http://www.cybercash.com

Home pages of various purveyors and promoters of electronic money.

http://www.sec.gov/rules/concept/33-7516.htm

Discussion of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rules on on-line securities operations.

http://bandon.unisg.ch/links/elcomm/index.html

Collection of web links on electronic commerce.

http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/TIS/ecomcfp1.html

Abstracts of articles in special issue of the Information Society Journal regarding the theory and practice of electronic commerce.

http://www.ljx.com/internet/excerpt.html

On overview of Shrink-Wrap/Point-and-Click Agreements.

http://www.ljx.com/internet/97_12_click.html

Discussion of some of the issues surround the use of point and click contracts in cyberspace.

http://www.ljx.com/internet/UCC2Bintro.html

Some quick insight into the proposed UCC article 2B, which will govern transactions in computer programs and licenses of information (regardless of media). Some argue that this "new law" is one of the most important in the information age economy.

http://www.bna.com/e-law/cases/edias.html

http://www.law.emory.edu/6circuit/jan96/96a0032p.06.html

http://www.courts.state.mn.us/library/archive/ctappub/9709/c69789.htm

http://www.bna.com/e-law/cases/playmen.html

http://www.bna.com/e-law/cases/cyb_gold.html

http://www.gse.ucla.edu/iclp/dhdm.html

Reprint of article from the Los Angeles Daily Journal (July 15, 1996) - Personal Jurisdiction and the Net: Does Your Website Subject You to the Laws of Every State in the Union? Web site maintained by the UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy.

http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/braintennis/97/34/index0a.html

An on-line debate between David Post, co-founder and co-director of the Cyberspace Law Institute and a law professor at Temple University, and Jack Goldsmith is associate professor of law at the University of Chicago, on who should have the right to govern cyberspace.

The case (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility v. Secret Service) listed in the syllabus for Class 8 (Tuesday July 21)