Cyberspace Law Seminar Spring 2006 Nicholas Johnson University of Iowa College of Law Iowa City, Iowa

NOTE: This page, and those to which it links, provide the administrative regulations, reading assignments, writing requirements and deadlines, and other information relevant to the University of Iowa College of Law Spring 2006 Cyberspace Law Seminar. Once students' seminar papers are available they will be linked from this page.

Anyone not enrolled in the seminar is free to use this site -- subject to the usual copyright restrictions with regard to material prepared by the instructor and students: (a) all rights are reserved by the author, with, usually, (b) permission granted for individual use (viewing, linking, downloading, and printing limited to one copy), (c) but not for posting to other Web sites. (If other Web sites link to a paper that is here, rather than copying it, that will ensure that any subsequent revisions will be reflected in the link.) (d) Any commercial, or other use, requires permission from the author. (If you are unable to reach the author directly, you may communicate with him or her through the instructor.)

If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments please e-mail them to me:  -- Nicholas Johnson, December 20, 2005. (Revised February 3, 2006; May 27, 2006.)

* Although Karl Reichenberger was not enrolled in the 2006 Cyberspace Law Seminar, his 2006 Independent Research project, supervised by Professor Johnson, was sufficiently related that it has been included with the seminar papers posted here.

In this table, "Date" refers to the date when the participant's topic was submitted originally (or finally, if revisions were involved). "TConf" refers to the date when the "topic conference" was held with the instructor. "OConf" refers to the date of the "outline conference." "1stDConf" to the date of the "first draft conference."
 

Participant	Topic, as of . . .	Date	TConf	OConf	1stDConf
Hashimoto	The solution to movie and mixed martial arts video piracy is BMI-style licensing.	060131
Lamoreux	The City of Iowa City, Iowa, has the legal authority to establish a municipal wireless Internet service.	060217
Lies	Game players' rights in the virtual property they acquire should derive from both common law property principles and limited license rights.	060219
Logan	Remedies of injunctions and fines should be available to protect computer owners from the unauthorized installation of adware, spyware and malware.	060227
McCormally	There should be electronic voting machine standards sufficient to assure the accuracy and security of balloting while providing for legal challenges.	060125
Pfaff	Regulation of Facebook should represent a balancing of students' First Amendment rights in this medium of mass communications with the security concerns of educational and law enforcement officials.	060125
Weller	Because the Internet offers a variety and expansion of gender harassment formerly unknown there is a need for stricter regulation.	060201
Wilhelm	Some applications of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the constitutional right to make "fair use" of copyrighted works.	060130

Although it is neither a seminar requirement nor a source of extra credit, participants who do not already have a personal Web page but would like to have one, are encouraged to prepare and post a personal Web page while enrolled in the seminar. The URLs for any Web page sites they already have, or may now create, will be listed here. -- N.J.)