Law and Cyberspace

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Law and Cyberspace - November 7 - 13

Click on the image to visit the EFF's Blue Ribbon Campaign which fights Internet censorship & protects online free expression.

Read the following articles and use them as background for the discussion this week.
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Second sight
Copyright Laws in Digital Europe
Law Fights to Keep Pace With Tech
High Court: Porn Law Too Broad
Senators: Hands Off Kids' Data

Ilene Frank is a Reference Librarian at South Florida University. She has been teaching library science online since 1996 and has a special interest in Legal Issues relating to digital material. With a background in fine art/painting and a stint as a bass player in a blues band in Michigan she brings diverse interests to our discussion. For a full bio you can read her personal page she uses for her Library Science class!

Surf the web prior to going to the discussion board with the purpose of finding the physical location of two items: 1) locations of companies, persons or organizations who are hosting the web pages, and, 2) the location of the computer in each of case that actually has the entity's web pages on it. Note the ease or difficulty with which this is or is not accomplished.

Refer to this exercise in this weeks discussion.

Use the following question to BEGIN this week's discussion

How far do you think that a company should go to protect its name and reputation from 'fan or parody' web sites?

Go to the Bulletin Board and begin the discussion

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