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Name Calling On The Internet: The Problems Faced By Victims Of Defamatory Content In Cyberspace, Sarudzai Chitsa

Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers

In the past decade or so, internet libel has become one of the hot topics in internet law. Internationally, courts have dealt with an enormous amount of cases brought by both the suppliers and consumers of the internet services. Although the advent of the World Wide Web has come with many legal problems; this paper will only focus at the problems that are being faced by the victims of defamatory speech on the internet in trying to seek compensation through the courts. These problems include, inter alia, the reluctance of the courts in unmasking the identity of the authors of …

Defending Disclosure In Software Licensing, Robert A. Hillman, Maureen O'Rourke

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This Article surveys prominent kinds of disclosures in contract law-of facts, contract terms, and performance intentions. We show why the disclosure tool, although subject to substantial criticism, promotes important social values and goals, including efficiency, autonomy, corrective justice, fairness, and the legitimacy of the contract process. Further, proposals to replace disclosure with other alternatives are unrealistic because they are too expensive or complex. Our working example is the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Software Contracts.

The Google Dilemma, James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann

Web search is critical to our ability to use the Internet. Whoever controls search engines has enormous influence on all of us; whoever controls the search engines, perhaps, controls the Internet itself. This short essay (based on talks given in January and April 2008) uses the stories of five famous search queries to illustrate the conflicts over search and the enormous power Google wields in choosing whose voices are heard on the Internet.

Accidental Privacy Spills, James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann

The realm of privacy law has more crimes than criminals, more wrongs than wrongdoers. Some invasions of privacy are neither intentional nor negligent; it's easy to recognize the harm, but hard to pin the blame. Laurie Garrett attended the World Economic Forum as a journalist and wrote a private email to a few close friends, only to see that email end up on a widely-read weblog.

This essay tells the story of that inevitable accident: an "accident" in that it needn't have happened, but "inevitable" in that there's no principled way to prevent similar misunderstandings from recurring, again and again …

Entrepreneurs And Regulators: Internet Technology, Agency Estoppel, And The Balance Of Trust, James T. O'Reilly

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Wild Wild Web: Non-Regulation As The Answer To The Regulatory Question, Shamoil Shipchandler

Cornell International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Closing One Gap But Opening Another?: A Response To Dean Perritt And Comments On The Internet, Law Schools, And Legal Education, Michael Heise

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

No Regulation, Government Regulation, Or Self-Regulation: Social Enforcement Or Social Contracting For Governance In Cyberspace, Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

There Is A Need To Regulate Indecency On The Internet, Robert W. Peters

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Freedom Of Speech On The Electronic Village Green: Applying The First Amendment Lessons Of Cable Television To The Internet, Robert Kline

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.