Ecommerce Law Links
The links below provide a broad supplement to the MSEC program and will be particularly useful for the course 46-740, Ecommerce Law and Regulation. 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. © 1999 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)
Unlawful Linking and Framing
(Tanya Rose)
Government
Federal Trade Commission
Lists of Links
Advertising Law (John
Marshall Law School)
Advertising/Consumer Protection
(ABA)
Sale of Services (ABA)
Periodicals
Internet Advertising/Marketing Law Report
Internet Advertising Report (internet.com)
Sites
Engage Technologies
Statutes and Regulations
Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud
and Abuse Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. §6101)
Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 C.F.R.
§310)
Antitrust
and Competition (U.S. Dep't. of Justice)
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
Online Banking
(CyberSpace Law Center)
Articles
Internet as a
Source of Regulatory Arbitrage (A. Michael Froomkin)Censorship and the Communications
Decency Act of 1996 (From Telecom
Information Censorship and the Net (Yahoo)
Cyber-Liberties (ACLU)
Net Censorship in Australia
Free Expression (CyberSpace Law
Center)
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)
Filtering Facts
Obscene and Indecent
Material (David Loundy)
Regulation of
Pornography and Child Pornography on the Internet (Yaman Akdeniz, UK)
Electronic Contracting: The Use of "Clickwrap" Licenses (Perkins Coie) Lists of Links
Sale of Goods (ABA)
U.C.C.-Contracts (Cyberspace Law Center) Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
Text of Act Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
ETA Forum
Text of Act Computer Security
Lists of Links
Crypto Links (Bruce Schneier, legal)
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 (CyberSpace Law Center)
Cybercrimes Against Persons
Web Psycho Tales
Statutes
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
(18 U.S.C. §1030)
Economic Espionage Act (18
U.S.C. §1831)
Texas Computer Crime Law (Texas
Penal Code §33.01)
Articles
Law Professors'
Letter Opposing Mandatory Key Escrow
Lists of Links
CyberSpace Law Center:
Cryptography
Export Regulations
Wassenaar Arrangement
Articles
Electronic Signature Legislation
(Smedinghoff & Bro)
Law
Student's Guide to the Future of Transactions on the Internet (C. Keefe)
Misplaced Priorities: The Utah
Digital Signature Act and Liability Allocation in a Public Key Infrastructure (Biddle)
Role Of Certification
Authorities In Consumer Transactions (ILPF)
Lists of Links
CyberSpace Law Center: Digital
Signatures
Digital
Signatures (From Telecom
Information Resources on the Internet)
Index of State
Electronic Authentication Developments
PKI Page (Stefan
Kelm's page on digital signatures)
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
CyberSpace Law
Center: E-Cash Companies
Selected U.S. Legal
Issues in Issuance of Electronic Money (JIBC)
FAQ
E-money mini-FAQ (Jim
Miller)
Lists of links
CyberSpace Law Center:
Gambling
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)
Gambling
on the Internet - The Conflicts Between Technology, Policy & Law (Anthony Cabot)
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
Computer Law Review & Technology
Journal (SMU)
CyberLaw
Journal (NY Times)
Cyberspace Law Journal
(Univ. of Kansas)
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)
Intellectual Property &
Technology Law Review (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
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)
Journal of Information Law
& Technology (Univs. of Warwick and Strathclyde)
Society for Computers & Law eMag
(UK)
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)
World Wide Web Law Links
(Blumenfeld & Cohen)
Lists of Links
Berkman Center for Internet &
Society (Harvard Law)
CompLaw: The Computer Law Resource
CyberLaw (Haim Ravia, Law Office)
Cyberlaw Encyclopedia
CyberSpace Law Center (Katich, Werse &
Petillo)
CyberSpace Law Links
Cyberspace Law Subject Index
(John Marshall)
E-Law Locator
Electronic
Commerce and Electronic Data Interchange (John Yates. More general than it
sounds -- a general list of ecommerce law materials)
Electronic Commerce
and Internet Law Resource Center (Perkins Coie LLP)
Internet and World Wide Web
Issues
Internet Library of Law and
Court Decisions (Philips Nizer)
Internet Regulation
(Blumenfeld & Cohen)
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)
Perkins Coie
Internet Case Digest
UCLA Online Institute for
Cyberspace Law and Policy
WIPO Electronic Commerce and
Intellectual Property
Periodicals
Cyber Law
Journal
e-business (ZDNet)
e-commerce update
(Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Australia)
Tutorials
Cyberspace Law
for Non-Lawyers (Cyberspace Law Institute)
Ecommerce A to Z (Brown & Bain)
Law and the Internet 1998
(A. Michael Froomkin)
Legal Aspects of Internet Commerce
(A. Pollock)
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 and
Intellectual Property (From Telecom Information Resources
on the Internet)
Copyright Issues
(David Loundy)
Copyright Website
Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (94-page pdf file)
Imprimatur Electronic Copyright
Management Systems
Short Analysis of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (Digital Future Coalition)
U.S. Copyright Act
(17 U.S.C. §101 et seq.)
U.S. Copyright Regulations
(37 C.F.R. §201 et seq.)
Universal
Copyright Convention
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 (CyberSpace Law
Center)
Intellectual Property
(Fenwick & West)
WIPO Electronic Commerce and
Intellectual Property
Patents
Ecommerce Patents
(NC State)
IBM Patent Server
Paris
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
Patent Bibliographic
Database (USPTO)
Patent
Cooperation Treaty
Patent Search (STO)
SoftwarePatent.com
Software Patent News
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)
Trademark Issues Related to Metatagging
on the World Wide Web (Cedric Laurant)
Trademarks and the
Internet (Perkins Coie)
Trademarks, Domain Names and
Related IP Issues on the Internet (Diane Cabell)
U.S. Trademark Act
(15 U.S.C. §1051 et seq.)
U.S. Trademark Regulations
(37 C.F.R. §2 et seq.)
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
India
Electronic Commerce Act
Lists of links
New Zealand
New Zealand Electronic
Commerce
Russia
Law of the
Russian Federation on Information, Informatisation and Information Protection
Spain
El Derecho, las
Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones
South Africa
Business Guide to Internet Law
(Werksmans)
The E-commerce Debate
UN Model Law
UN Model Law on Electronic
Commerce
Lists of links
Internet Governance, Domain
Name and IP Number Policy (From Telecom Information Resources
on the Internet.
Internet Law (Advocacy Network)
Articles
Business Internet Jurisdiction
(Drescher & Associates)
Choice of Law in Internet-Based
Controversies (Fram & Purcell)
Compuserve
v. Patterson:Creating Jurisdiction Through Internet Contacts (Conner)
Establishing
Personal Jurisdiction for Internet Transactions (Joan Henry)
Internet Jurisdiction
(Christopher Wolf)
Jurisdiction in Cyberspaces: A Theory
of International Spaces (Menthe)
Jurisdiction
Online (IP Warehouse)
Lists of Links
Internet Jurisdiction
Hyperlink Guide (ABA)
Jurisdiction (CyberSpace Law Center)
Tutorials
Jurisdiction Over Person &
Property (allrise.com)
Lists of links
Legislation and
Regulations (From Telecom
Information Resources on the Internet
Services
e-TimeStamp
Surety Technologies, Inc.
Lists of links
Electronic
Commerce Policy (From Telecom
Information Resources on the Internet.
Policy and Law
(Varian's list)
Telecom Policy and Regulation
(From Telecom Information
Resources on the Internet.)
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
Privacy
- A Necessary Part of the Cookie Recipe (T. P. Etzel)
Federal Trade Commission
FTC Privacy Initiatives
Public Workshop on Online
Profiling
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)
EU Protection Directive
(Perkins Coie)
European Privacy
Directive: Salient Provisions (Perkins Coie)
Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (C-54, Canada)
Lists of links
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Privacy (ABA)
Privacy (CyberSpace Law Center)
Privacy (From Telecom Information Resources
on the Internet)
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
Introduction to
Privacy and the Internet (PrivacyExchange.org)
Workplace
Electronic Workplace (Mathias &
Barrett)
Rights and Wrongs of Workplace
Snooping (Laura Hartman)
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
Fight Against Spamming & Legal
Issues on Bulk Email (Groupweb)
Spam, Unsolicited E-mail
(from Telecom Information
Resources on the Internet)
Spamming - Commercial
Speech and Trespass (Cyberspace Law Center)
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
State-by-State
Internet Tax Summaries (Vertex)
Lists of links
CyberSpace Law Center:
Taxation
LibertySearch:
Taxation
Tax Directory: Internet
Trade
Taxation (ABA)
Statutes
15 U.S.C §381
International
Convergence of IT, Telecoms and
Broadcasting Regulation Issues (OFTEL, UK)
Telecommunications Regulation (ITU)
Lists of links
LibertySearch:
Telecommunications
Statutes
Telecommunications Act of
1996
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
Text
2B Guide (Kunze)