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Full-Text Articles in Law
Once And Future Copyright, James Gibson
Once And Future Copyright, James Gibson
Law Faculty Publications
Copyright is like a well-meaning but ultimately bothersome friend, eager to help but nearly impossible to get rid of. It attaches indiscriminately to the simplest acts of expression, without regard for whether the author needs or wants its protection. This automatic propertization made sense in the print era, when mass distribution of information was an expensive process rarely undertaken by those with no plans to profit from their creativity. It makes little sense today. The following article shows that copyright's overly solicitous nature is the source of several seemingly unrelated and intractable problems - e.g., closed code, copyright as censorship, …
Sexual Harassment: Limiting The Affirmative Defense In The Digital Workplace, Donald P. Harris, Daniel B. Garrie, Matthew J. Armstrong
Sexual Harassment: Limiting The Affirmative Defense In The Digital Workplace, Donald P. Harris, Daniel B. Garrie, Matthew J. Armstrong
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Digital communications sexual harassment is on the rise. Such harassment occurs through sexually offensive and unwarranted e-mails, placing harassing messages on electronic bulletin boards, and other forms of harassment that occur through the Internet. To date, courts have remained silent on the issue of sexual harassment by digital communications. Should this type of harassment be treated any differently than harassment that occurs in the physical space? The somewhat surprising answer is yes.
This Article advocates applying a new judicial framework for addressing digital communications sexual harassment. This new framework accounts for the real-world technology in the digital workplace and the …
Initial Interest Confusion: Standing At The Crossroads Of Trademark Law, Jennifer E. Rothman
Initial Interest Confusion: Standing At The Crossroads Of Trademark Law, Jennifer E. Rothman
All Faculty Scholarship
While the benchmark of trademark infringement traditionally has been a demonstration that consumers are likely to be confused by the use of a similar or identical trademark to identify the goods or services of another, a court-created doctrine called initial interest confusion allows liability for trademark infringement solely on the basis that a consumer might initially be interested, attracted, or distracted by a competitor's, or even a non-competitor's, product or service. Initial interest confusion is being used with increasing frequency, especially on the Internet, to shut down speech critical of trademark holders and their products and services, to prevent comparative …
'Code' And The Slow Erosion Of Privacy, Bert-Jaap Koops, Ronald Leenes
'Code' And The Slow Erosion Of Privacy, Bert-Jaap Koops, Ronald Leenes
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
The notion of software code replacing legal code as a mechanism to control human behavior--"code as law"--is often illustrated with examples in intellectual property and freedom of speech. This Article examines the neglected issue of the impact of "code as law" on privacy. To what extent is privacy-related "code" being used, either to undermine or to enhance privacy? On the basis of cases in the domains of law enforcement, national security, E-government, and commerce, it is concluded that technology rarely incorporates specific privacy-related norms. At the same time, however, technology very often does have clear effects on privacy, as it …
Education Elementary And Postsecondary Education: Amend The "Quality Basic Education Act"; Change Certain Provisions Relating To Determination Of Enrollment By Institutional Programs; Authorize The Establishment Of The Georgia Virtual School; Provide For Rules And Regulations; Provide For A Georgia Virtual School Grant Account; Provide For Statutory Construction; Provide For Related Matters; Provide An Effective Date; Repeal Conflicting Laws; And For Other Purposes, Kristen Swift
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act authorizes the State Board of Education to establish a Georgia Virtual School where students may enroll in state-funded courses via the Internet. All Georgia students who are age 21 or younger are eligible to enroll, but the Act gives public school students priority. The Act also authorizes the State Board of Education to establish rules and regulations, including the processes for enrollment and reporting grades on students' transcripts. Students may register for courses in excess of the maximum number of courses allowed per year at a tuition rate the State Board of Education will establish. The Professional Standards …
Introduction – 21st Century Law, Technology And Ethics: The Lawyer’S Role As A Public Citizen Serving The Public Good, Irma S. Russell
Introduction – 21st Century Law, Technology And Ethics: The Lawyer’S Role As A Public Citizen Serving The Public Good, Irma S. Russell
Faculty Works
The lawyer's role as a "public citizen" also involves a duty to "seek improvement of the law." Changing technology has changed the way lawyers practice law. As public citizens lawyers have an affirmative commitment to the social goal of a just society. Ethical issues arise in the use of technology in society, and lawyers play a central role in social ordering. The idea that advocates in an adversary system have special responsibilities is not new.
Securing The Freedom Of The Communications Revolution, Michael K. Powell
Securing The Freedom Of The Communications Revolution, Michael K. Powell
Federal Communications Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Law’S Box: Law, Jurisprudence And The Information Ecosphere, Paul D. Callister
Law’S Box: Law, Jurisprudence And The Information Ecosphere, Paul D. Callister
ExpressO
For so long as it has been important to know “what the law is,” the practice of law has been an information profession. Nonetheless, just how the information ecosphere affects legal discourse and thinking has never been systematically studied. Legal scholars study how law attempts to regulate information flow, but they say little about how information limits, shapes, and provides a medium for law to operate.
Part I of the paper introduces a holistic approach to “medium theory”—the idea that methods of communication influence social development and ideology—and applies the theory to the development of legal thinking and institutions. Part …
Not All Bad: An Historical Perspective On Software Patents, Martin Campbell-Kelly
Not All Bad: An Historical Perspective On Software Patents, Martin Campbell-Kelly
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
This Paper places the current debates about software patents in the historical context of patenting in the information technology industries. The first computer-program products were sold in the mid 1960s when software patents were not generally allowed; as a result, trade secrecy became endemic to the software industry. Software products were also protected by copyright, but in practice this offered little protection against most forms of appropriation by reverse engineering or cloning. By the early 1980s a series of landmark cases led to the acceptance of software patents. It is argued that this development was consistent with the patenting of …
Technology Wars: The Failure Of Democratic Discourse, Gregory N. Mandel
Technology Wars: The Failure Of Democratic Discourse, Gregory N. Mandel
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
Conflicts over the use and regulation of various technologies pervade public discourse and have dramatic implications for the public interest. Controversies over the regulation of genetically modified products, nuclear power, and nanotechnology, among others, provoke some of the most socially and politically volatile debates of our time. These technology conflicts extract a substantial price from society--they create costly inefficiencies, prevent society from optimally managing new technologies, consume vast resources, and retard technological growth. This Article develops a framework for understanding technology controversies, and consequently proposes new means for resolving or ameliorating a variety of seemingly intractable legal and regulatory standoffs. …
A Technological Theory Of The Arms Race, Lee B. Kovarsky
A Technological Theory Of The Arms Race, Lee B. Kovarsky
ExpressO
No abstract provided.
Four More Years... Of The Status Quo? How Simple Principles Can Lead Us Out Of The Regulatory Wilderness, Adam Thierer
Four More Years... Of The Status Quo? How Simple Principles Can Lead Us Out Of The Regulatory Wilderness, Adam Thierer
Federal Communications Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Random Numbers, Chaos Theory, And Cogitation: A Search For The Minimal Creativity Standard In Copyright Law, Ralph D. Clifford
Random Numbers, Chaos Theory, And Cogitation: A Search For The Minimal Creativity Standard In Copyright Law, Ralph D. Clifford
Faculty Publications
This article explores the second type of expressive work, those where there is a question if the author’s contribution is qualitatively sufficient, to determine how much creativity and of what type is required to sustain a copyright. Initially, the historic standards of creativity use before Fiest was decided in 1991 will be presented. Then, after a brief discussion of Fiest, the scientific basis of creativity will be explored. Next, the confusion regarding creativity that exists in the lower courts will serve to expose the source of misapplication of the law – a disconnect between how courts perceive creativity and …
An Umbrella Or A Canopy?: Why The 17 U.S.C. Section 512(A) Safe Harbor Should Be Read Broadly, Sven Skillrud
An Umbrella Or A Canopy?: Why The 17 U.S.C. Section 512(A) Safe Harbor Should Be Read Broadly, Sven Skillrud
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
With technology constantly changing, the interaction between copyright law and technology is always at odds, especially since the evolution of the Internet. To keep up with the ever-changing Internet, Congress enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; specifically, it created four safe harbors that are intended to protect entities from copyright infringement that qualify as online service providers. However, it seems that the courts have had trouble interpreting who is covered under these safe harbors, namely, as to what entities qualify under the first safe harbor "Transitory Digital Network Communications." There are only a few cases where entities have qualified under …
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 …
Congress, The Courts, And New Technologies: A Response To Professor Solove , Orin S. Kerr
Congress, The Courts, And New Technologies: A Response To Professor Solove , Orin S. Kerr
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Fattening Foods: Under Products Liability Litigation Is The Big Mac Defective?, Charles E. Cantú
Fattening Foods: Under Products Liability Litigation Is The Big Mac Defective?, Charles E. Cantú
Faculty Articles
Excessive consumption of fast food may produce negative results, but it does not render fast food products, like the McDonald’s Big Mac, defective. While no product is technologically perfect, and any product can cause injury, American jurisprudence has always held purveyors of defective food liable. The question is whether fattening foods, such as the Big Mac, are defective under a strict products liability theory.
The cornerstone of this cause of action requires a product to be defective, which may stem from: (1) mis-manufacturing, where the product enters the stream of commerce in an unintended condition; (2) mis-marketing, where the risks …
A Comparative Analysis Of The Impact Of Experimental Use Exemptions In Patent Law On Incentives To Innovate, Kevin Iles
A Comparative Analysis Of The Impact Of Experimental Use Exemptions In Patent Law On Incentives To Innovate, Kevin Iles
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Preserving Internet Expression While Protecting Our Children: Solutions Following Ashcroft V. Aclu, Steven E. Merlis
Preserving Internet Expression While Protecting Our Children: Solutions Following Ashcroft V. Aclu, Steven E. Merlis
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
High Plains Drifting: Wind-Blown Seeds And The Intellectual Property Implications Of The Gmo Revolution, Stephanie M. Bernhardt
High Plains Drifting: Wind-Blown Seeds And The Intellectual Property Implications Of The Gmo Revolution, Stephanie M. Bernhardt
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
In-Line Or Insane? The Federal Circuit's Recent Interpretation Of Festo In Honeywell V. Hamilton Sundstrand, Justin E. Gray
In-Line Or Insane? The Federal Circuit's Recent Interpretation Of Festo In Honeywell V. Hamilton Sundstrand, Justin E. Gray
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Free Radicals In Cyberspace: Complex Liability Issues In Information Warfare, Meiring De Villiers
Free Radicals In Cyberspace: Complex Liability Issues In Information Warfare, Meiring De Villiers
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Pharmacogenomics: Privacy In The Era Of Personalized Medicine, Berrie Rebecca Goldman
Pharmacogenomics: Privacy In The Era Of Personalized Medicine, Berrie Rebecca Goldman
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: From Preventing Genetic Disease To Customizing Children. Can The Technology Be Regulated Based On The Parents’ Intent?, Lindsey A. Vacco
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: From Preventing Genetic Disease To Customizing Children. Can The Technology Be Regulated Based On The Parents’ Intent?, Lindsey A. Vacco
Saint Louis University Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Telecommunications Technology And Sovereignty: Effects On States As Information Transfer Increased From The Speed Of Oxcart To The Speed Of Light, James H. Radford
Telecommunications Technology And Sovereignty: Effects On States As Information Transfer Increased From The Speed Of Oxcart To The Speed Of Light, James H. Radford
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
Sovereignty---the absolute and unlimited power of the state---provides independence of action. Information about actions or intentions of competitors, enemies, or even friends, arriving after extended periods of time, resulted in responses to fait accompli. When information travels nearly instantaneously, states must consider potentially rapid international reactions before the fact. This suggests that since a state's freedom of action has been abridged, the nature of their sovereignty has altered.
This study pursues the research question: In what ways does telecommunications technology affect state sovereignty? The evolution of sovereignty is compared to development of telecommunications technology over four distinct eras, each …
Arresting Vaulting Pole Technology, Russ Versteeg
Arresting Vaulting Pole Technology, Russ Versteeg
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Generally speaking, sports rules perform at least six functions, many of which overlap. Sports rules: 1) define the game; 2) promote safety; 3) prohibit unfair advantage; 4) promote administrative efficiency; 5) foster good sportsmanship; and, 6) promote fairness. Presumably, as sports evolve, rule makers must seriously consider at least two important questions when deciding how to respond to any given technological innovation that affects a sport. They must consider its potential impact on the integrity of the sport (i.e., how it affects both the definition of the game as well as whether it creates an unfair advantage and/or otherwise hinders …
Law's Box: Law, Jurisprudence And The Information Ecosphere, Paul D. Callister
Law's Box: Law, Jurisprudence And The Information Ecosphere, Paul D. Callister
Faculty Works
For so long as it has been important to know what the law is, the practice of law has been an information profession. Nonetheless, just how the information ecosphere affects legal discourse and thinking has never been systematically studied. Legal scholars study how law attempts to regulate information flow, but they say little about how information limits, shapes, and provides a medium for law to operate.
Part I of the paper introduces a holistic approach to medium theory - the idea that methods of communication influence social development and ideology - and applies the theory to the development of legal …
Dimensions Of Equality In Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Mary Crossley
Dimensions Of Equality In Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Mary Crossley
Articles
Although concerns about individual liberty and the nature and extent of reproductive freedom have tended to dominate discussions regarding the proliferation of and access to reproductive technologies, questions about the implications of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) for equality have also arisen. Despite the high number of invocations of equality in the literature regarding ARTs, to date little effort has been made to comprehensively examine the implications of ARTs for equality. This short Article seeks to highlight the variety of equality issues that ARTs present and to develop a framework for classifying different types of equality issues. Specifically, I suggest that …
Expanding Our Classroom Walls: Enhancing Teaching And Learning Through Technology, Kristin B. Gerdy, Jane H. Wise, Alison Craig
Expanding Our Classroom Walls: Enhancing Teaching And Learning Through Technology, Kristin B. Gerdy, Jane H. Wise, Alison Craig
Faculty Scholarship
The authors examine the reasons why law faculty should implement technology into the legal education experience, provide a brief overview of the learning theory supporting technology, discuss the thoughtful use of technology, and describe four specific projects they have used in their classrooms to aid in student learning.
Fourth Amendment Codification And Professor Kerr's Misguided Call For Judicial Deference, Daniel J. Solove
Fourth Amendment Codification And Professor Kerr's Misguided Call For Judicial Deference, Daniel J. Solove
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This essay critiques Professor Orin Kerr's provocative article, The Fourth Amendment and New Technologies: Constitutional Myths and the Case for Caution, 102 Mich. L. Rev. 801 (2004). Increasingly, Fourth Amendment protection is receding from a litany of law enforcement activities, and it is being replaced by federal statutes. Kerr notes these developments and argues that courts should place a thumb on the scale in favor of judicial caution when technology is in flux, and should consider allowing legislatures to provide the primary rules governing law enforcement investigations involving new technologies. Kerr's key contentions are that (1) legislatures create rules …