Optional Reading

These are suggested optional materials for the 2023 "Internet Law" class. If you are a student in this class, see your class materials for mandatory reading.

Class 1

• Taylor Coe, Where does the word cyber come from?, OUPblog, 2015, https://blog.oup.com/2015/03/cyber-word-origins/
• James Grimmelmann, Continuity and Change in Internet Law, Communications of the ACM, May 2019, Vol. 62 No. 5, Pages 24-26, https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/5/236418-continuity-and-change-in-internet-law/abstract
• Frank H. Easterbrook, Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse, University of Chicago Legal Forum
  207 (1996), https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2147&context=journal_articles
• Lennard G. Kruger, Internet Governance and the Domain Name System: Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service, March 23, 2016, https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R42351.pdf
• EU Geoblocking Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2018/302 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 February 2018 on addressing unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market and amending Regulations (EC) No 2006/2004 and (EU) 2017/2394 and Directive 2009/22/EC (full text)
• Beginner's Guide to Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses, ICANN, 2011, https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ip-addresses-beginners-guide-04mar11-en.pdf
• Marketa Trimble, The Future of Cybertravel: Legal Implications of the Evasion of Geolocation, 22 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 567 (2012), https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/iplj/vol22/iss3/2/
• Marketa Trimble, Copyright and Geoblocking: The Consequences of Eliminating Geoblocking, 25(2) B. U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 476 (2019), https://www.bu.edu/jostl/files/2019/10/7.-Trimble.pdf
• EU Portability Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2017/1128 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market (full text)
• In re Facebook, Inc. Internet Tracking Litigation (9th Cir. 2020)
• In re Google Location History Litigation (N.D.Ca 2019)
• Groupe Canal+ SA v. European Commission, CJEU, C-132/19 P, December 9, 2020
• Patrick Breyer v Bundesrepublik Deutschland, CJEU, C-582/14, 2016​​

Class 2

• South Dakota v. Wayfair, U.S. Supreme Court, 2018, https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf
• AMA v. Wanat, 9th Cir., 2020, https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/18-15051/18-15051-2020-08-17.html
• Pinckney v. KDG Mediatech, CJEU, C-170/12, 2013, https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=142613&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=1648784
• UMG v. Kurbanov, 4th Cir., 2020 (full text), https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca4/19-1124/19-1124-2020-06-26.html
• Triple Up v. Youku Tudou, D.D.C., 2017, https://cite.case.law/f-supp-3d/235/15/
• MacDermid v. Deiter, 2d Cir., 2012, https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/11-5388/11-5388-2012-12-26.html
• Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et l'antisemitisme, 433 F.3d 1199 (9th Cir. 2006), https://casetext.com/case/yahoo-v-la-ligue-contre-le-racisme
• ​Marketa Trimble, Targeting Factors and Conflict of Laws on the Internet, 40 Rev. Litig. 1 (2020), https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2356&context=facpub
• Marketa Trimble, Territorialization of the Internet Domain Name System, 45(4) Pepperdine L. R. 623 (2018), ​https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/plr/vol45/iss4/1/
• Marketa Trimble, Extraterritorial Enforcement of National Laws in Connection with Online Commercial Activity (April 30, 2015). RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LAW, John A. Rothchild ed., Edward Elgar, 2016, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2600925

Class 3

• Communications Decency Act​, Section 230 (full text), https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Section 512 (full text), https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512
• Section 512 Study, U.S. Copyright Office, 2020, https://www.copyright.gov/policy/section512/
• EU Digital Services Act, 2022, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/2065/oj
• EU Digital Markets Act, 2022, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32022R1925
• EU DSM Directive, 2019 (full text), https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj
• EU InfoSoc Directive, 2001 (consolidated text as of 2019; full text), https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02001L0029-20190606
• EU DSM Directive - National consultations and transpositions by country, CREATe, https://www.create.ac.uk/cdsm-implementation-resource-page/#:~:text=The%20Directive%20on%20Copyright%20in,States%20have%20met%20this%20deadline.
• Transparency Report, Google, https://transparencyreport.google.com/?hl=en
• “Lumen” database, https://www.lumendatabase.org/
• J. Urban et al., Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice, v. 2, revised in March 2017    https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2755628
• Professor Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog
• Net Neutrality, Bundesnetzagentur, Germany
• Net Neutrality, Federal Trade Commission, USA

Class 4

• Data act: Council and Parliament strike a deal on fair access to and use of data, Press Release, June 27, 2023
• U.S. Cyber Command
• Declaration for the Future of the Internet
• Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute, U.S. Supreme Court, 2021
• Prager University v. Google, 9th Cir. Court, 2020
• Facebook's Oversight Board
• Technology And Digital Platforms Section, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice