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1. Aims
2. Objectives
3. Course Description
4. Syllabus
5. Required Texts
5.1. Selected References
6. Assessment Req.
7. Research Topics
7.1. General Research Area
7.2. Specific Paper Topics
8. Course Methodology
   
Appendix: Research Paper Guidelines
 
Discussion Groups
  Week 1
  Week 2
  Week 3
  Week 4
  Week 4.2
  Week 5.1
  Week 5.2
  Week 6.1
  Week 6.2
  Week 7.1
  Week 7.2
  Week 8.1
  Week 8.2
   

Cyberlaw Readings

The Information Age

Week 8.2: Property in Cyberspace: Copyright and the Digital Distribution of Music Continued
· RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999) (SAIL at 903-12): http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=9th&navby=docket&no=9856727
· UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3.com, Inc., 92 F.Supp.2d 349 (S.D.N.Y., 2000):
http://www.riaa.org/PDF/MP3_Court_Ruling.pdf

Optional Reading

· The Audio Home Recording Act
of 1992, Copyright Act Of 1976, As Amended Chapter 10. Digital Audio Recording Devices And Media: http://www.hrrc.org/html/ahra.html
· MP3 Board v. RIAA Complaint, 2000: http://www.techfirm.com/briefs/riaacomp.pdf

· Steve Albini, The Problem with Music
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
· William Fisher, Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities, 2000:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/Academic_Affairs/coursepages/tfisher/Music.html
· Hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary United State Senate
on Online Entertainment: Coming Soon to a Digital Device Near You
Tuesday, April 3, 2001: http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/hr040301f.htm
· Declan McCullagh, Digital Security Fomenting a Feud: Regarding the proposed Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA): http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50702,00.html
· National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age, chapter on digital music: http://books.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/ch2.html
· NetPD (Internet security services) and Internet Piracy
http://www.netpd.com/a.htm
· Music Online Competition Act of 2001, HR 2724, 107th Cong. (2001): http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.02724:%20%20; and summary: http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/moca-summary.htm
· The Music Online Competition Act of 2001: Moderate Change Or Radical Reform?
http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2001dltr0031.html
· A Yen, Perspectives on Intellectual Property: A Personal Injury Law Perspective on Copyright in an Internet Age, 52 Hastings L. J. 929 (2001)

Business or bust? The future of file-trading services
· Fred von Lohmann Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law after Napster: http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/Napster/20010227_p2p_copyright_white_paper.html
· MusicCity.com is a file searching service that licenses Morpheus, a peer-to-peer enabling application: http://www.musiccity.com/
· Morpheus Looks To Gnutella For Help: http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,,38328,FF.html

Discussion
1. Case brief RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999).
2. Case brief UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3.com, Inc., 92 F.Supp.2d 349 (S.D.N.Y., 2000).
3. Can the file trading business survive Napster? Should it?
4. Discuss the alternatives to copyright protection?