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Protecting The Future: A Strategy For Creating Laws Not Constrained By Technological Obsolescence, Jay Campbell
Protecting The Future: A Strategy For Creating Laws Not Constrained By Technological Obsolescence, Jay Campbell
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This note will examine the obsolescence of laws through the lens of recent cases relating to "wiretapping laws" and propose the creation of laws that protect certain rights independent of technology. Recently, a number of courts have held that laws created in the mid-1980's to protect communications do not apply to Internet-related communications, reasoning that the method of transmission falls outside the language of the statutes. As a result, e-mail and other forms of Internet-based communications are treated differently from older forms of communication such as telephone conversations. This note will propose a broad legislative solution with the aim of …