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Organizations with an Interest in the Issues
All About the Electronic
Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/EFFdocs/about_eff.html
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in
the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources
and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media. Its Blue Ribbon Campaign Page
champions freedom of press, speech and association on the Internet and is one of the most
linked to sites on the Web.
The Center for Democracy and Technology
http://www.cdt.org/
"The Center For Democracy and Technology is a non-profit public interest organization
based in Washington, DC. CDT's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that
advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and
communications technologies."
Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://epic.org/
"EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in
1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy,
the First Amendment, and constitutional values."
Overview
Navigating
the Legal Issues on the Information Superhighway
http://businesstech.com/law/3_96law/btlaw3_96.html#topics
An overview of Internet legal issues by Joseph I. Rosenbaum on the Business Tech site.
Computer Security, Law
& Privacy
http://black-ice.cc.vt.edu/~valdis/security.html
Links to materials on these issues.
Privacy
Privacy - Computers and
Society Articles Collection
http://cec.wustl.edu/~cs142/privacy.html#anon
Lots of privacy related links.
Encryption
The CDT Cryptography Page
http://www.cdt.org/crypto/index.html
Materials on the cryptography debate.
A Cryptography Primer for
Business Lawyers
http://www.ljextra.com/forumpages/merrill.html
Information on cryptography for business lawyers from Law Journal Extra.
Encryption Policy Resource Page
http://www.crypto.com/
A site strongly opposing Administration cryptography policy
Encryption
http://cec.wustl.edu/~cs142/encryption.html
Lots of encryption links.
The Clipper Chip Debate
Clipper I and II
CDT Clipper I and II Archive
http://www.cdt.org/crypto/clipper.html
This CDT site collects materials on the Administration's now abandoned Clipper I and II
proposals.
The Latest Administration Proposal: Clipper III
CDT Clipper III Archive
http://www.cdt.org/crypto/clipper311/
This CDT site collects materials on the latest Clinton Administration encryption plan.
"On Tuesday October 1, the Clinton Administration announced its plan to ease export
controls on strong encryption. Technology companies would be able to export products that
use 56-bit encryption for the next two years - contingent on the companies' promise to
distribute "key recovery" products after that two-year period."
Anonymity
Anonymous
Remailer FAQ
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-faq.html
Frequently asked questions about anonymous remailers.
Freedom of Speech
EFF
Internet Censorship Archive
http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/
An archive of legislative materials and related items pertaining to attempts to censor
speech on the Internet maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
EFF ACLU v. Reno
Archive
http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/Cases/EFF_ACLU_v_DoJ/
An archive of materials that relate to a constitutional challenge to the Communications
Decency Act.
The Jake Baker Case
United States v. Baker
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/cases/baker.html#toc
United States District Court Opinion.
Jake
Baker Information Page
http://krusty.eecs.umich.edu/people/pjswan/Baker/Jake_Baker.html
Information on the status of the Government's appeal of the District Court decision.
Pornography
Marketing Pornography
on the Information Superhighway
http://trfn.clpgh.org/guest/mrtext.html#note1
The controversial Rimm study, published in the Georgetown Law Journal, and the subject of
a Time Magazine cover story.
The Cyberporn
Debate
http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/cyberporn.debate.cgi
This site examines the Rimm study and the Time cover story reporting on it and concludes
that both contain serious conceptual, logical, and methodological flaws and errors.
United States
of America v. Thomas
http://www.law.emory.edu/6circuit/jan96/96a0032p.06.html
Sixth Circuit decision affirming the convictions and sentences of the Thomases for
violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 1462 and 1465 in their operation of the Amateur Action Bulletin
Board.
Defamation
Cubby v.
Compuserve
ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/cubby-v-compuserve.text
Text of the court's decision in Cubby v. Compuserve.
Spam
Internet
Advertiser's Blacklist
http://www.i-m.com/hyper/inet-marketing/archives/9412/0225.html
The Internet Marketing Mailing List Internet Advertiser's Blacklist "is intended to
curb inappropriate advertising on usenet newsgroups and via junk e-mail. It works by
describing offenders and their offensive behavior, expecting that people who read it will
punish the offenders in one way or another."
Copyright
Intellectual
Property and the National Information Infrastructure: The Report of the Working Group on
Intellectual Property Rights
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/execsum.html
"The Report, written by the IITF Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights
chaired by Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
Bruce A. Lehman, explains how intellectual property law applies to Cyberspace and makes
legislative recommendations to Congress to fine tune the law for the digital age."
Religious Technology Center
v. Netcom
http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/net1121.txt
Order in Religious Technology Center v. Netcom
Ownership of Electronic Rights
Writers
Sue to Stop Massive Copyright Infringement: First Suit by Writers to Question Nature of
Copyright in the Electronic Age
http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/intellectual_property/nwu_lawsuit
Press release about lawsuit.
Ethics Issues for Lawyers
legalethics.com
http://www.legalethics.com/articles.htm
Links to a variety of legal ethics articles on and about the Internet.
NetEthics Committee - State Bar of
Georgia Computer Law Section
http://www.computerbar.org/netethics/
More links to legal ethics articles on and about the Internet.
Advertising Restrictions
How Do Advertising
Rules Apply to Lawyers on the Net?
http://www.bna.com/prodhome/bus/mopc_adnew.html
ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct article by Joan C. Rogers on lawyer
advertising on the Internet.
Pushing the Advertising
Envelope: Building Bill Boards In The Sky Along The Information Superhighway
http://www.computerbar.org/netethics/read.htm
Law review article by T. K. Read on lawyer advertising on the Internet.
Ambulance Chasers on
the Internet: Regulation of Attorney Web Pages
http://journal.law.ufl.edu/~techlaw/1/hankins.html
Law review article by Mark Hankins on lawyer advertising on the Internet.
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