Week 7.2: Copyright: Liability of Internet Service Providers and Other Intermediaries

Required Reading:

	Religious Technology Center v. Netcom, 907 F. Supp. 1361 (N.D. Cal. 1995): SAIL at 872-888; http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Scientology_cases/whyte_netcom_112195.order
	A& M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 114 F.Supp.2d 896 (N.D. Cal. 2000) (safe harbor defense ruling, para. 24): http://news.cnet.com/News/Pages/Special/Napster/napster_patel.html
	ALS Scan v. Remarq Communities, Inc., 239 F.3d 619 (4th Cir. 2001), available at http://pub.bna.com/eclr/001351.htm
	The Digital Millennium Copyright Act USC s 512: http://www.eff.org/Intellectual_property/DMCA/hr2281_dmca_law_19981020_pl105-304.html
	No Electronic Theft Act, 1997, USC s 506: SAIL 890-91.

Optional reading:

	Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure, 1995 (The White Paper)" pp. 114-30: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/
	Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian, U.S. Government Information Policy, (see section on copyright and internet service providers): http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/policy/policy.html
	Alfred C. Yen, Internet Service Provider (ISP) Liability for Subscriber Copyright Infringement, Enterprise Liability and the First Amendment, 88 Geo. L. J. 1833 (2000), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=236478
	Kamiel J. Koelman and Rosa Julia-Barcelo, Intermediary Liability in the E-Commerce Directive: So Far, So Good, But It's Not Enough, 4 Computer Law & Security Report 231 (2000): http://www.ivir.nl/publications/koelman/notenough.html
	Rosa Julia-Barcelo, On-line Intermediary Liability Issues : Comparing E.U. and U.S. Legal Frameworks, 22 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 105 (2000)
	European electronic commerce directive and ISP liability: http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/ecommerce/999.htm

Discussion