Ecommerce Law Links
The links below provide a broad supplement to the MSEC program and will be particularly useful for the course 45-848, eCommerce Legal Environment. They will lead you to articles, tutorials and white papers relating to all aspects of Ecommerce law. For unfamiliar terminology you may also want to consult the Hyperdictionary of Electronic Commerce Law. This page is maintained by shamos@cs.cmu.edu and is still under construction. Please report omissions and dead links to the author. Copyright 2004 Michael I. Shamos.
Topics covered:
Advertising
Antitrust
Auctions
Banking
Censorship
Commercial
Transactions
Computer
Security
Consumer
Protection
Criminal
Law
Cryptography
Digital
Signatures
Electronic
Payments
Electronic
Voting
Gambling
General
Government
Intellectual
Property
International
Law
Internet
Jurisdiction
Legislation
Notaries
Policy
Privacy
Securities
Spam
Tax
Telecommunications
Uniform
Acts
Articles
Advertising
and Marketing on the Internet (FTC)
Banner Ads
Excite,
Netscape Sued Over Banner Ads (SearchEngineWatch)
Deep
Linking
Hyperlinks, Frames and Meta-Tags:
An Intellectual Property Analysis (Kuester & Nieves)
Linking Rights
(Brad Templeton)
Government
Federal Trade Commission
Lists of
Links
Advertising/Consumer
Protection (ABA)
Sale of Services
(ABA)
Periodicals
Internet
Advertising Report (internet.com)
Sites
Engage Technologies
Statutes and
Regulations
Telemarketing and
Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. §101)
Telemarketing
Sales Rule
Links
Antitrust
and the Internet (Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak &
Cohen)
Microsoft
Case
Antitrust
and Microsoft (From Telecom
Information Resources on the Internet)
Antitrust Case Filings:
U.S. v. Microsoft (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
Government vs. Microsoft
(I.T. Works)
U.S.
Justice Department Antitrust Division
Auction
Sites
eBay
ONSALE
SKYAUCTION.com travel auctions
Yahoo! auctions
FTC
Consumer Alert! Online Auctions: Going, Going, Gone
New Hampshire online auction
licensing
Crime
Cyberlaundering
(R. Mark Bortner)
End of Ordinary Money Part
II (J. Orlin Grabbe)
National Check Fraud
Center
Suspicious
Internet Banking (FDIC)
Electronic
Cash
Electronic Cash Under Current
Banking Laws (d'Alelio & Collins)
Lists of
Links
Payment
Systems/Banking (ABA)
Online
Banking
Internet
and Online Banking
Articles
Internet as
a Source of Regulatory Arbitrage (A. Michael Froomkin)
Cyber-Liberties
(ACLU)
Net Censorship in
Australia
On-Line
Censorship in the States (ACLU)
Resources
on the Internet
Readings
on Computer Communications and Freedom of Expression
(MIT)
Speech Which Causes
Injury (David Loundy)
Lists of
Links
Censorship on the
Internet
Pornography
AdultWebLaw (Law relating to adult
sites)
Child Pornography
statute (18 U.S.C. §2251-2258)
Obscene and
Indecent Material (David Loundy)
Regulation
of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Internet (Yaman Akdeniz,
UK)
Clickwrap
licenses
Lists of
Links
Sale of Goods
(ABA)
Uniform Computer
Information Transactions Act
Text of
Act
Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act
ETA Forum
Text
of Act
Lists of
Links
Readings on
Encryption and National Security (MIT)
Consumer Protection: E-Commerce and the Internet (FTC)
Lists of
Links
Advertising/Consumer
Protection (ABA)
Lists of
Links
Computer/High-Tech
Crime and Related Sites
Cybercrimes Against
Persons
Statutes
Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. §1030)
Economic Espionage
Act (18 U.S.C. §831)
Texas Computer Crime
Law (Texas Penal Code §3.01)
Articles
Law
Professors' Letter Opposing Mandatory Key Escrow
Lists of
Links
Articles
Electronic Signature
Legislation (Smedinghoff & Bro)
Law
Student's Guide to the Future of Transactions on the Internet (C.
Keefe)
Lists of
Links
Summary of Electronic Commerce
and Digital Signature Legislation (McBride Baker &
Coles)
Statutes
Electronic Signatures in
Global and National Commerce Act (S. 761, 2000)
Electronic
Cash
Selected U.S.
Legal Issues in Issuance of Electronic Money (JIBC)
FAQ
E-money
mini-FAQ (Jim Miller)
Lists of
links
Money - Past, Present
& Future (List of Roy Davis)
White
Papers
California Internet Voting
Task Force Report (1/18/00)
Articles
Gambling on the
Internet (Aaron Craig, PDF format)
Gambling on the
Internet (Cynthia R. Janower)
Internet
Gambling Warning (Att'y. Gen'l. of Kansas)
Lists of
Links
Public Law/Gaming
(ABA)
Attorneys
Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Locator
Law Journals
(U.S.)
Albany Law Journal of
Science & Technology
Berkeley
Technology Law Journal
BitLaw: A Resource on Technology
Law
CyberLaw
Journal (NY Times)
Electronic Commerce & Law Report
(BNA)
Harvard
Journal of Law and Technology (abstracts only, some full
text)
IDEA: the
journal of law and technology (Franklin
Pierce)
Intellectual
Property and Technology Forum (Boston College)
Internet Lawyer (Abstracts
only)
John
Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law
Journal of
Internet Banking & Commerce
Journal
of Internet Law (Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP)
Journal of Online Law
(William & Mary)
Journal of Science & Technology
Law (Boston Univ.)
Journal of Technology Law
& Policy (Univ, of Florida)
Michigan Telecommunications and
Technology Law Review
Richmond Journal of
Law and Technology
Rutgers
Computer & Technology Law Journal
Stanford Technology Law
Review
UCLA
Bulletin of Law & Technology
University of Dayton Journl
of Law & Technology
Virginia Journal of Law and
Technology
West Virginia Journal of Law
& Technology
Law Journals
(non-U.S.)
Computer und Recht
(Germany)
Digital Technology Law
Journal (Murdoch Univ., Australia)
International Journal of
Law and Information Technology (Oxford)
L'Internet Juridique
(France)
Law Sources and
Statutes
Computers and
Information Technology Laws
FedLaw (GSA)
FindLaw (comprehensive list of law
sites)
LawCrawler
(meta-search for legal sources)
Supreme Court
Decisions 1937-1975
United States Code
(Cornell)
U.S.
Constitution (Cornell)
U.S. Constitution
(Yale)
Lists of
Links
Berkman Center for Internet &
Society (Harvard Law)
CompLaw: The Computer Law
Resource
Cyberlaw
Encyclopedia
CyberSpace
Law Links
E-Law
Locator
Electronic
Commerce and Electronic Data Interchange (John Yates. More
general than it sounds -- a general list of ecommerce law
materials)
Internet Library of
Law and Court Decisions (Philips Nizer)
KuesterLaw: the technology law
resource
Law and
the Net (Steptoe & Johnson)
Law of Electronic
Commerce (Univ of Hull, U.K.)
Legal
Department@AOL
Netlitgation (Sugarman Rogers
Barshak & Cohen)
UCLA Online Institute
for Cyberspace Law and Policy
WIPO Electronic Commerce and
Intellectual Property
Periodicals
Cyber
Law Journal
e-business
(ZDNet)
Tutorials
Law and the Internet
1998 (A. Michael Froomkin)
Federal
Electronic Commerce Program Office
Federal Trade
Commission
United
States Patent and Trademark Office
Domain
Names
Approved
Agreements among ICANN, the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, and Network
Solutions
Management
of Internet Names and Addresses
Articles
The Digital Dilemma:
Intellectual Property in the Information Age (National Research
Council)
What
Every Business Needs to Know About Trademarks, Copyrights, and Security on
the Internet (Alschuler Grossman & Pines LLP)
Cases
Interactive Gift
Express v. Compuserve (patent on on-line ordering)
Ticketmaster v.
Microsoft (trademark implications of hyperlinks)
Washington Post
v. TotalNews (trademark implications of hyperlinks)
Copyright
Berne
Convention
Copyright
Issues (David Loundy)
Copyright
Website
Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (94-page pdf file)
U.S. Copyright
Act (17 U.S.C. §101 et seq.)
U.S. Copyright
Regulations (37 C.F.R. §201 et seq.)
General
Intellectual
Property (Varian's list)
Readings on
Information and Intellectual Property (MIT)
Government
U.S. Copyright
Office
U.S. Patent
& Trademark Office
International
European Patent
Office
Japanese
Patent Office
World Intellectual Property
Organization
Journals
IP Law Center (Law News
Network)
IP: The Journal
of Law and Policy for High Technology
IP Worldwide
Lists of
Links
Intellectual Property
(ABA)
Intellectual
Property (Fenwick & West)
WIPO Electronic Commerce and
Intellectual Property
Patents
IBM Patent
Server
Paris
Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property
Patent Bibliographic
Database (USPTO)
Patent
Cooperation Treaty
Patent Search
(STO)
SoftwarePatent.com
U.S. Patent Act (35
U.S.C. §1 et seq.)
U.S. Patent
Regulations (37 C.F.R. §1 et seq.)
Trademarks and Domain
Names
AntiCybersquatting
Consumer Protection Act (1999)
Trademark
Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services
Manual
Trademark and Unfair
Competition Issues (David Loundy)
Trademarks, Domain Names and
Related IP Issues on the Internet (Diane
Cabell)
Articles
Law and Borders -- The Rise of
Law in Cyberspace (Johnson & Post)
Taxation of
Internet Commerce (Muskovitch)
Canada
Canadian Internet Law
Resource Page (Michael Geist)
Digital
Signatures
Survey
of International Electronic and Digital Signature Initiatives
(ILPF)
European
Union
Electronic
Commerce and the European Union: Legal Aspects
France
Juriscom.net
General
Hague
Conference on Private International Law
Laws by Country
(law.com)
Germany
Federal
Data Protection Act (BGB1.I 1990 S. 2954)
Information and
Communication Services Act
Law of Electronic and Internet
Commerce in Germany
Lists of links
New
Zealand
New Zealand Electronic
Commerce
Russia
Law
of the Russian Federation on Information, Informatisation and Information
Protection
South
Africa
Business Guide to Internet
Law (Werksmans)
The E-commerce
Debate
UN Model
Law
UN Model Law on
Electronic Commerce
Lists of
links
Articles
Compuserve v.
Patterson:Creating Jurisdiction Through Internet Contacts
(Conner)
Internet
Jurisdiction (Christopher Wolf)
Jurisdiction in
Cyberspaces: A Theory of International Spaces (Menthe)
Lists of
Links
Internet
Jurisdiction Hyperlink Guide (ABA)
Tutorials
Jurisdiction Over Person
& Property (allrise.com)
Lists of
links
Services
e-TimeStamp
Surety Technologies,
Inc.
Lists of
links
Policy
and Law (Varian's list)
United States Government
Electronic Commerce Policy
Organizations
Center for Democracy &
Technology
Cyberspace
Law Institute
Electronic Frontier
Foundation
Electronic
Privacy Information Center
UCLA Online Institute
for Cyberspace Law and Policy
Articles
Internet Privacy Law (Timonthy
Walton)
Privacy of
Electronic Documents (David Loundy)
Cases
Jessup-Morgan
v. AOL (defamation by ISP)
Judnick
v. DoubleClick, Inc. (collecting information
without consent)
Cookies
Federal Trade
Commission
FTC Privacy
Initiatives
General
See how much a website learns about you
when you visit.
Identity
Theft
Identity Theft
website
International
EU
Data Protection Law and Online Services: Regulatory Responses
(Europa)
Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (C-54,
Canada)
Lists of links
Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC)
Privacy
(ABA)
Readings on
Privacy (MIT)
See how
much a website learns about you when you visit.
Security,
Privacy and Encryption (Varian's list)
W3C Privacy
Overview
Sites
DoubleClick
interMute (advertising
blocker)
Internet
Privacy Coalition
Privacy Rights
Clearinghouse
Statutes
Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998
Electronic
Communications Privacy Act (18 U.S.C. §2510, 2710,
3121)
Identity Theft and
Assumption Deterrence Act (amending 18
U.S.C. §1028)
Right to
Financial Privacy Act of 1978
Tutorials
Workplace
Windows
Nine-to-Five: Smyth v. Pillsbury and the Scope of an Employee's
Right of Privacy in Employer Communications (Rod Dixon)
Lists of
Links
Securities
(ABA)
Articles
Garbage In: Emerging Media and
Regulation of Unsolicited Commercial Solicitations
(Carroll)
Information v.
Commercialization: The Internet and Unsolicited Electronic Mail
(Mika)
Lists of
links
Statutes
Junk
Email Legislation (AOL)
Telephone Consumer
Protection Act of 1991 ("Junk Fax" Law) (47 U.S.C. §227)
Washington State Law
Prohibiting Unsolicited Electronic Mail (Ch. 149, Laws of
1998)
Cases
National
Bellas Hess, Inc. v. Department of Revenue of Ill., 386 U.S. 753
(1967)
Quill Corp.
v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992)
International
E-commerce Taxation (Prof.
Claudia Gramaccia) Good source for EU references
Internet Tax Freedom
Act
Internet Tax Freedom Act
Homepage (Rep. Christopher Cox)
Text of
Act
General
Lists of
links Here
LibertySearch:
Taxation
Tax Directory:
Internet Trade
Taxation
(ABA)
Statutes
15
U.S.C. §381
International
Lists of
links
LibertySearch:
Telecommunications
Statutes
Telecommunications Act of
1996
Uniform Computer Information
Transactions Act
Text
2B Guide (Kunze)