Regulation, Law, and Policy

• John December's Internet applications list on policy
• State reports
  • New York
    • Chapter 9. Encouraging Commercial and Public Use
    • Can New York Enter the Information Age?
• The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy submitted this report to the U.S. Congress in December 1992 The report addresses six specific issues:
  • effective mechanisms for providing operating funds for the maintenance and use of the Network, including user fees, industry support, and continued Federal investment;
  • the future operation and evolution of the Network;
  • how commercial information service providers could be charged for access to the Network, and how Network users could be charged for such commercial information services;
  • the technological feasibility of allowing commercial information service providers to use the Network and other federally funded research networks;
  • how to protect copyrights of material distributed over the Network; and
  • appropriate policies to ensure the security of resources available on the Network and to protect the privacy of users of networks.
• * INFORMATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS * * * * Recommended citation: U.S. Office of Technology * * Assessment, Information Security and Privacy in * * Network Environments, OTA-TCT-606 (Washington, DC: * * U.S. Government Printing Office, September 1994). *
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (login as privacy)
• US IITF Intellectual Property Working Group Draft Report
  • Summary prepared by (Singapore) National Computer Board
  • WWW
  • gopher
  • Critique (A GNN Special Report)
  • NEW (21 Oct)Hearing transcripts
• Proceedings: Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment
• Intellectual Property Issues (Association of Research Libraries)
  • The Information Law Web
  • David LaMacchia Defense Fund
• Past FEATURELEGALLY ONLINE - April 1995 (Boardwatch Magazine)
• Esther Dyson on How Internet Will Change Software's Business Model
• Web pages to multimedia and technology law firms in California's Silicon Valley
• MULTIMEDIA CONTENT AND THE SUPER HIGHWAY: RAPID ACCELERATION OR FOOT ON THE BRAKE?
• Europe and the global information society - Bangemann report
  • Protection of intellectual property rights
  • Electronic protection (encryption), legal protection and security
• Chicago-Kent College of Law
  • The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Drafts of Uniform and Model Acts
• Legal Information Institute (Cornell University)
• Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy
  • Villanova Law School Legal Automation Papers
• NEW (22 Mar)The Law of Electronic Commerce (by Benjamin Wright)
• Lewis Rose's WWW site containing articles of interest to the advertising and marketing community The site houses articles about the legal aspects of marketing products, with particular emphasis on infomercials, home shopping, and direct response tv. Other articles discuss 900 Number regulations, contest laws, business opportunity laws, and additional aspects of promotion law.
• THE SEAMLESS WEBsite - Law and Legal Resources
• LegaLink (Small, Craig & Werkenthin, P.C.)
• MORRIS MANNING & MARTIN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY LEGAL NET
• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) - Legal Issues
  • The Phil Zimmermann Case
• The Legal Risks of Setting Up Shop In Cyberspace by Edward A. Cavazos
• Tort Liability, the First Amendment, Equal Access and Commercialization of Electronic Networks by Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
• The Integration of Banking and Telecommunications: The Need for Regulatory Reform by Kalpak S. Gude (FCLJ Vol 46, No 3)
• EFF on "digital money"
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW PROJECT (Norway)

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