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Facilitated Plagiarism: The Saga Of Term-Paper Mills And The Failure Of Legislation And Litigation To Control Them, Darby Dickerson Dec 2016

Facilitated Plagiarism: The Saga Of Term-Paper Mills And The Failure Of Legislation And Litigation To Control Them, Darby Dickerson

Darby Dickerson

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Patent Injunctions And The Problem Of Uniformity Cost, Michael W. Carroll Nov 2016

Patent Injunctions And The Problem Of Uniformity Cost, Michael W. Carroll

Michael W. Carroll

In eBay v. MercExchange, the Supreme Court correctly rejected a one-size-fits-all approach to patent injunctions. However, the Court's opinion does not fully recognize that the problem of uniformity in patent law is more general and that this problem cannot be solved through case-by-case analysis. This Essay provides a field guide for implementing eBay using functional analysis and insights from a uniformity-cost framework developed more fully in prior work. While there can be no general rule governing equitable relief in patent cases, the traditional four factor analysis for injunctive relief should lead the cases to cluster around certain patterns that often …


Creative Commons And The New Intermediaries, Michael W. Carroll Nov 2016

Creative Commons And The New Intermediaries, Michael W. Carroll

Michael W. Carroll

This symposium contribution examines the disintermediating and reintermediating roles played by Creative Commons licenses on the Internet. Creative Commons licenses act as a disintermediating force because they enable end-to-end transactions in copyrighted works. The licenses have reintermediating force by enabling new services and new online communities to form around content licensed under a Creative Commons license. Intermediaries focused on the copyright dimension have begun to appear online as search engines, archives, libraries, publishers, community organizers, and educators. Moreover, the growth of machine-readable copyright licenses and the new intermediaries that they enable is part of a larger movement toward a Semantic …


Introduction, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Introduction, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

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Chapter Five: The San Bernardino Iphone Case, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Chapter Five: The San Bernardino Iphone Case, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

The San Bernardino iPhone case burst on the scene as I was nearing the completion of this manuscript. I could not have imagined a better scenario to sum up the issues of free speech, privacy, intellectual property and security than this case. Not least because the San Bernardino Apple iPhone case generated considerable public interest and policy debate in the United States and abroad. At stake are issues such as the balance between national security and personal privacy, tensions between global technology companies and domestic law enforcement, and the potential supremacy of technology -- particularly encryption -- over traditional notions …


Chapter Four: Information Security, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Chapter Four: Information Security, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

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Chapter One: Free Speech, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Chapter One: Free Speech, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

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Chapter Two: Privacy, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Chapter Two: Privacy, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

"Free speech" and "privacy" operate as integral, essential supporting values that underpin the missions of colleges and universities in the United States. Chapter One focused attention on free speech. Many of the same arguments could be made by and for privacy. It would be interesting to subject the same content about free speech to a global "find and replace" function for the applicable legal and policy points between them! Nonetheless, US law separates these two areas. Therefore, this chapter will focus on privacy law in particular: government surveillance and consumer privacy. Both subsets of privacy law, I will argue, have …


Chapter Three: Intellectual Property, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Chapter Three: Intellectual Property, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

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Title Page, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Title Page, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

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Conclusion, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Conclusion, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

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Shareholder Wealth Maximization As Means To An End, Robert P. Bartlett, Iii Aug 2016

Shareholder Wealth Maximization As Means To An End, Robert P. Bartlett, Iii

Robert Bartlett

In several recent cases, the Delaware Chancery Court has emphasized that where a conflict of interest exists between holders of a company’s common stock and holders of its preferred stock, the standard of conduct for directors requires that they strive to maximize the value of the corporation for the benefit of its common stockholders rather than for its preferred stockholders. This article interrogates this view of directors’ fiduciary duties from the perspective of incomplete contracting theory. Building on the seminal work of Sanford Grossman and Oliver Hart, incomplete contracting theory examines the critical role of corporate control rights for addressing …


Rats, Traps, And Trade Secrets, Elizabeth A. Rowe May 2016

Rats, Traps, And Trade Secrets, Elizabeth A. Rowe

Elizabeth A Rowe

Technology has facilitated both the amount of trade secrets that are now stored electronically, and the rise of cyber intrusions. Together, this has created a storm perfectly ripe for economic espionage. Cases involving unknown or anonymous offenders who may not be in the United States and who steal trade secrets using remote access tools (“RATs”) are especially problematic. This Article is the first to address and place trade secret misappropriation within the larger backdrop of cybersecurity. First, it argues that systemic issues related to technology will continue to make legislative and judicial solutions suboptimal for cyber misappropriation. Second, it explores …


Book Review: Digital Crime And Forensic Science In Cyberspace, Gary C. Kessler Mar 2016

Book Review: Digital Crime And Forensic Science In Cyberspace, Gary C. Kessler

Gary C. Kessler

This document is Dr. Kessler's review of Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace, by P. Kanellis, E. Kiountouzis, N. Kolokotronis, and D. Martakos. Idea Group Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 1-59140-873-3.


Copyright Law: Essential Cases And Materials, Alfred Yen, Joseph Liu Feb 2016

Copyright Law: Essential Cases And Materials, Alfred Yen, Joseph Liu

Joseph P. Liu

This casebook emphasizes the essential cases and materials at the heart of copyright law. The result is a streamlined and well-organized casebook of manageable length that keeps the central themes of copyright front and center. It also provides access to a companion Web site containing an extensive library of additional modules, topics, edited cases, notes, problems, and audio-visual materials. Together these materials, along with a companion teacher's manual, allow teachers to easily customize the copyright law course to suit their specific goals. The authors have written extensively about copyright, the arts, and the impact of new technology.


A Roundtable Discussion With Lawrence Lessig, David G. Post & Jeffrey Rosen, Thomas E. Baker Feb 2016

A Roundtable Discussion With Lawrence Lessig, David G. Post & Jeffrey Rosen, Thomas E. Baker

Thomas E. Baker

This article is a transcript of a discussion between Lawrence Lessig, David G. Post and Jeffrey Rosen on a variety of issues surrounding law, technology and the Internet. The moderator was Thomas E. Baker and the discussion was part of a Drake University Law School symposium in February of 2001.


Small Data Surveillance V. Big Data Cybersurveillance, Margaret Hu Feb 2016

Small Data Surveillance V. Big Data Cybersurveillance, Margaret Hu

Margaret Hu

This Article highlights some of the critical distinctions between small data surveillance and big data cybersurveillance as methods of intelligence gathering. Specifically, in the intelligence context, it appears that “collect-it-all” tools in a big data world can now potentially facilitate the construction, by the intelligence community, of other individuals' digital avatars. The digital avatar can be understood as a virtual representation of our digital selves and may serve as a potential proxy for an actual person. This construction may be enabled through processes such as the data fusion of biometric and biographic data, or the digital data fusion of the …


Employee Electronic Communications In A Boundaryless World, Robert Sprague Dec 2015

Employee Electronic Communications In A Boundaryless World, Robert Sprague

Robert Sprague

In 2007, the National Labor Relations Board decided that an employer could maintain an email communications policy that prohibits nonwork-related messages, even if those messages involved communications otherwise protected under the National Labor Relations Act. In December 2014, the National Labor Relations Board reversed this holding, but in doing so, limited its decision to just workplace email. This article argues that such a prescription is outdated and archaic in light of today’s modern workplace filled with communications devices and systems that blur the distinction between work and personal life. This article explains that such a prescription can cause employees to …


The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche & The Network-Centric Condition Dec 2015

The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche & The Network-Centric Condition

Dan Mellamphy

No abstract provided.


Private Technology (Foreword), Daniel Harris Brean Dec 2015

Private Technology (Foreword), Daniel Harris Brean

Daniel Harris Brean

Privacy and technology issues tend to implicate one another. Sometimes they reinforce each other, such as when improved data security thwarts hackers. But often the use of technology diminishes privacy because, in order to benefit from the technology, users must surrender some personal, otherwise private information. In such cases the technology may be powerful, profitable, fun, or convenient, but the privacy consequences of its use can be quite profound.


Fourth Amendment Time Machines (And What They Might Say About Police Body Cameras), Stephen E. Henderson Dec 2015

Fourth Amendment Time Machines (And What They Might Say About Police Body Cameras), Stephen E. Henderson

Stephen E Henderson

When it comes to criminal investigation, time travel is increasingly possible.  Despite longstanding roots in traditional investigation, science is today providing something fundamentally different in the form of remarkably complete digital records.  And those big data records not only store our past, but thanks to data mining they are in many circumstances eerily good at predicting our future.  So, now that we stand on the threshold of investigatory time travel, how should the Fourth Amendment and legislation respond?  How should we approach bulk government capture, such as by a solar-powered drone employing wide-area persistent stare technology?  Is it meaningfully different …