Week 7.1: Property: Copyright Protection of Online Content

Required Reading:

Direct Infringement

	Playboy Enterprises v. Webbworld, 991 F. Supp. 543 (N.D. Tex. 1997): SAIL 859-867
	Temporary or intermediate copying: see note on MAI v Peak Computer Inc: SAIL 867-869 and 196

Fair Use

Leslie a. Kelly, et al. v Arriba Soft Corp, United States District Court, Central district of California, Southern Division, (1999): http://pub.bna.com/ptcj/99-560.htm

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

	WIPO Copyright Treaty: SAIL at 656-658
	See Note at SAIL 891-2.
	RealNetworks, Inc. v Streambox, Inc. No. C99-2070, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1889 <http://www.law.pitt.edu/madison/copyright/realnetworks.pdf>

Optional Reading:

	WIPO Copyright Treaty, available at www.jus.uio.no/lm/wipo.copyright.treaty.1996/doc.html
	The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (text): http://www.eff.org/Intellectual_property/ DMCA/hr2281_dmca_law_19981020_pl105-304.html
	The No Electronic Theft Act 1997: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hr2265.html
	Hayes, Advanced Copyright Issues On The Internet, (cited SAIL 872, provides good overview of issues): http://www.fenwick.com/pub/ip_pubs/Advanced_Copyright_Issues_2001/ Advanced_Copyright_Issues_2001.htm
	Cohen, A Right To Read Anonymously: A Closer Look At "Copyright Management" In Cyberspace, originally published 28 Conn. L. Rev. 981 (1996): http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/jec/read_anonymously.pdf
	National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age, Executive Summary, available at http://books.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/exec_summ.html
	Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure: Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights (Sept. 1995), available at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/
	John Perry Barlow, The Economy of Ideas, 2.03 WIRED 84 (1994) www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html
	Paul Edward Geller, From Patchwork to Network: Strategies for International Intellectual Property in Flux, 31 Vand. J. Transn'l L. 553 (1998), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=185868
	Jane C. Ginsburg, Putting Cars on the "Information Superhighway": Authors, Exploiters and Copyright in Cyberspace, 95 Colum. L. Rev. 1466 (1995)
	Jessica Litman, Digital Copyright (2001)
	Pamela Samuelson, The U.S. Digital Agenda at WIPO, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 369 (1997)
	Pamela Samuelson, Copyright Grab, 4.01 WIRED 135 (1996), http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/white.paper.html
	Eric Schlachter, The Intellectual Property Renaissance in Cyberspace: Why Copyright Law Could Be Unimportant on the Internet, 12 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 15 (1997): http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/12_1/ Schlachter/html/text.html

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