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Nathan Burkan Writing Competition/Memorial Award 1964-2004, Notre Dame Law School, American Society Of Composers, Authors And Publishers

Student, Faculty, and Staff Awards

The Nathan Burkan Competition is a national writing competition designed to promote better understanding of the development of copyright law.

Individual law schools select the best paper which are then submitted to a special committee appointed by the American Bar Association to judge the entries.

Distinguished lawyers, jurists, and public officials read and judge the essays. Monetary awards are provided for the first through fifth prize papers.

Defending Cyberproperty, Patricia L. Bellia

Journal Articles

This Article explores how the law should treat legal claims by owners of Internet-connected computer systems to enjoin unwanted uses of their systems. Over the last few years, this question has become increasingly urgent and controversial, as system owners have sought protection from unsolicited commercial e-mail and from robots that extract data from Web servers for competitive purposes. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, courts utilizing a wide range of legal doctrines upheld claims by network resource owners to prevent unwanted access to their computer networks. The vast weight of legal scholarship has voiced strong opposition to these cyberproperty …