"Internet Law"

11 - 18 July ​​2022
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Class Slides

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.

   Optional Readings

• ​​EU Digital Services Act Proposal​
• EU Digital Markets Act Proposal
• First short-term review of the 2018 Geo-blocking Regulation (2020)
• CJEU, C-423/21, Request for a Preliminary Ruling (on VPN)
• Gtflix TV v DR, CJEU, C-251/20, 2021 (territorial scope of remedies)
• Trimble, Territorialization of the Internet Domain Name System (2018)​

• Gibson Brands, Inc. v. zong wen, National Arbitration Forum, 2015
• ccTLD Database (including links to national variations of the UDRP)
• Banaian v Bascom, S.Ct. New Hampshire, 2022 (s. 230 and retweeting)
• Declaration for the Future of Internet, 2022
• Charlie Warzel, The Open Secret of Google Search​, June 20, 2022

Marketa Trimble is the Samuel S. Lionel Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In her research she focuses on intellectual property and issues at the intersection of intellectual property and private international law/conflict of laws; this focus leads her to the investigation of various internet law problems. She has authored numerous works on these problems, including the first comprehensive study ever published (2012) on the legal implications of the evasion of geolocation. She is also the author of the book “Global Patents: Limits of Transnational Enforcement” (Oxford 2012) and the co-author of the casebook “International Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials” (Foundation Press 3d ed. 2012, 4th ed. 2016, 5th ed. 2019).

For Marketa Trimble's publications see here.

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Class of 2022

Some of the countries of origin of the students in the 2022 class:

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