"Internet Law"
6 – 14 June 2024
This course covers a variety of internet law topics while addressing a theme that is arguably emerging as the major theme of the decade for internet law: the role that internet service providers (such as access providers, search engines, and social media) are playing in shaping speech, norms, and the society. In its commercial beginnings, the internet was a space for a limited group of expert users; later, the internet became an alternative to other media and commercial spaces. Lately, and even more so during the Covid-19 pandemic, the internet has become the primary space for human endeavors and interactions. The role of ISPs has developed and has grown commensurately with this development, but the law has not kept up with the increase in the ISPs’ role. The course will discuss topics such as regulation of and on the internet, geoblocking, ISP liability for user-generated content, private ordering, and network neutrality. Issues of privacy and data protection, while mentioned in the course, will not be covered because other MIPLC courses focus on those issues.
Marketa Trimble, the Samuel S. Lionel Professor of Intellectual Property Law, specializes in international intellectual property law and publishes extensively on issues at the intersection of conflict of laws/private international law and intellectual property law. She has authored numerous works on these subjects, including Global Patents: Limits of Transnational Enforcement (Oxford University Press, 2012), and is the co-author of a leading international intellectual property law casebook, International Intellectual Property Law (with Professor Paul Goldstein, Foundation Press, 2012, 2016, and 2019). She has also authored several works in the area of cyberlaw, particularly relating to the legal issues of geoblocking and the circumvention of geoblocking. She has presented at conferences in the United States and abroad, and teaches regularly in the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. She is a member of several professional and academic organizations; she is an elected member of the American Law Institute and of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Her book on geoblocking is forthcoming in Edward Elgar in June 2024.
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Website and text © 2024 Marketa Trimble
Book cover © 2024 Edward Elgar Ltd.