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International Cyberspace: From Borderless To Balkanized???, Beverley Earle, Gerald A. Madek Sep 2014

International Cyberspace: From Borderless To Balkanized???, Beverley Earle, Gerald A. Madek

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Who Owns "Hillary.Com"? Political Speech And The First Amendment In Cyberspace, Jacqueline D. Lipton Sep 2014

Who Owns "Hillary.Com"? Political Speech And The First Amendment In Cyberspace, Jacqueline D. Lipton

Akron Law Faculty Publications

In the lead-up to the next presidential election, it will be important for candidates both to maintain an online presence and to exercise control over bad faith uses of domain names and web content related to their campaigns. What are the legal implications for the domain name system? Although, for example, Senator Hillary Clinton now owns ‘hillaryclinton.com’, the more generic ‘hillary.com’ is registered to a software firm, Hillary Software, Inc. What about ‘hillary2008.com’? It is registered to someone outside the Clinton campaign and is not currently in active use. This article examines the large gaps and inconsistencies in current domain …


Repairing Online Reputation: A New Multi-Modal Regulatory Approach, Jacqueline D. Lipton Sep 2014

Repairing Online Reputation: A New Multi-Modal Regulatory Approach, Jacqueline D. Lipton

Akron Law Faculty Publications

In today’s interconnected digital society, high profile examples of online abuses abound. Cyberbullies launch attacks on the less powerful, often significantly damaging victims’ reputations. Outside of reputational damage, online harassment, bullying and stalking has led to severe emotional distress, loss of employment, physical assault and even death. Recent scholarship has identified this phenomenon but has done little more than note that current laws are ineffective in combating abusive online behaviors. This article moves the debate forward both by suggesting specific reforms to criminal and tort laws and, more importantly, by situating those reforms within a new multi-modal framework for combating …


Celebrity In Cyberspace: A Personality Rights Paradigm For Personal Domain Name Disputes, Jacqueline D. Lipton Sep 2014

Celebrity In Cyberspace: A Personality Rights Paradigm For Personal Domain Name Disputes, Jacqueline D. Lipton

Akron Law Faculty Publications

When the Oscar™-winning actress Julia Roberts fought for control of the domain name, what was her aim? Did she want to reap economic benefits from the name? Probably not, as she has not used the name since it was transferred to her. Or did she want to prevent others from using it on either an unjust enrichment or a privacy basis? Was she, in fact, protecting a trademark interest in her name? Personal domain name disputes, particularly those in the space, implicate unique aspects of an individual’s persona in cyberspace. Nevertheless, most of the legal rules developed for these disputes …


Hacking Back: Not The Right Solution, Emilio Iasiello Sep 2014

Hacking Back: Not The Right Solution, Emilio Iasiello

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


How Much Spam Can Can-Spam Can?: Evaluating The Effectiveness Of The Can-Spam Act In The Wake Of White Buffalo Ventures V. University Of Texas, Fay Katayama Jun 2014

How Much Spam Can Can-Spam Can?: Evaluating The Effectiveness Of The Can-Spam Act In The Wake Of White Buffalo Ventures V. University Of Texas, Fay Katayama

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Estrategias De Protección De La Propiedad Intelectual En El Espacio Virtual, Rodolfo C. Rivas Rea, Serah Mutheu Mati Apr 2014

Estrategias De Protección De La Propiedad Intelectual En El Espacio Virtual, Rodolfo C. Rivas Rea, Serah Mutheu Mati

Rodolfo C. Rivas

The authors provide a brief rundown of strategies to protect a wide range of IP rights in cyberspace. The strategies tackle practical advice and suggest a series of progressive actions in order to ensure maximum protection with an efficient use of resources.//////////////////////////////// Los autores proporcionan un breve resumen de las estrategias para proteger una amplia gama de derechos de propiedad intelectual en el ciberespacio. Las estrategias abordan consejos prácticos y sugieren una serie de acciones en orden progresivo con la finalidad de garantizar la máxima protección manteniendo un uso eficiente de los recursos.


Maryland Personal Jurisdiction Law In The Cyberspace Content, Saad Gul Jan 2014

Maryland Personal Jurisdiction Law In The Cyberspace Content, Saad Gul

University of Baltimore Law Forum

A century ago, personal jurisdiction largely hinged on a simple litmus test: the defendant’s presence in the forum state. The issue of personal jurisdiction gained prevalence as the nation evolved from its earlier days of detached, semi-sovereign entities, whose citizens rarely interacted, to a nation where interstate commerce had increased, with interstate litigation growing correspondingly. In Pennoyer v. Neff, the Supreme Court of the United States effectively limited a state’s jurisdiction to persons physically present within its territorial borders. However, in today’s increasingly interconnected world, physical presence appears to represent an anachronism set in the post-Civil War, horse-and-buggy America of …


Funding Era Free Speech Theory: Applying Traditional Speech Protection To The Regulation Of Anonymous Cyberspace, Katherine Mccabe Jan 2014

Funding Era Free Speech Theory: Applying Traditional Speech Protection To The Regulation Of Anonymous Cyberspace, Katherine Mccabe

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Le Cyberspace, C'Est Moi?: Authoritarian Leaders, The Internet, And International Politics, David P. Fidler Jan 2014

Le Cyberspace, C'Est Moi?: Authoritarian Leaders, The Internet, And International Politics, David P. Fidler

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Meatspace, The Internet, And The Cloud: How Changes In Document Storage And Transfer Can Affect Ip Rights, Sharon Sandeen Jan 2014

Meatspace, The Internet, And The Cloud: How Changes In Document Storage And Transfer Can Affect Ip Rights, Sharon Sandeen

Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses the intellectual property issues from "meatspace" to online services and the Internet. It further explores intellectual property issues from the Internet to the Cloud. Finally, it discusses the implications of cloud computing for trade secret protection.


Notice, Assent, And Form In A 140 Character World, Juliet Moringiello Dec 2013

Notice, Assent, And Form In A 140 Character World, Juliet Moringiello

Juliet M Moringiello

This essay is a contribution to a symposium on Professor Nancy Kim’s terrific book, Wrap Contracts: Foundations and Ramifications. In the book, Prof. Kim examines this explosion in volume of online contract terms and offers some suggestions for improving the judicial approach to these terms. Despite the ease of presenting online terms in a visually appealing format, today’s electronically presented terms are even less comprehensible than those of fifteen years ago. At the same time that individuals have become accustomed to receiving information in small doses due to the proliferation of social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and …