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This course explores complex issues in the virtual environment from a comparative perspective. It examines the approaches that countries take in regulating various aspects of the internet, including intermediary liability for user-generated content and content moderation, and it reviews the evolving meaning of geography on the internet, the effects of constantly improving geolocation and geoblocking technologies, and the role of the internet domain name system in the internet ecosystem. The course highlights the role of non-state actors and private ordering through the overarching theme of the struggle to decide who should set the norms for and on the internet.
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This year's class brought together students from all over the world: |
At the end of the course, these are the features that the students found most troubling about the internet today:
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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, 2019, and 2024) and of casebook International and Comparative Copyright Law (with Professor Paul Goldstein, Foundation Press, 2024). She has also authored several works in the area of cyberlaw, particularly relating to the legal issues of geoblocking and the circumvention of geoblocking, including her book The EU Geo-Blocking Regulation: A Commentary (Edward Elgar, 2024). 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 and is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Comparative Law.
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