21 May 1998
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:22:41 -0400 From: Peter Swire <swire.1@OSU.EDU> Subject: Request for Submissions to Cyberspace Law Abstracts To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Dear Cyberians (with apologies for cross-listing): I would cordially like to invite you to consider submitting an abstract of your written work to the Cyberspace Law Abstracts (CLA). The CLA is part of the Legal Scholarship Network of the Social Science Research Network. The goal of the Legal Scholarship Network is to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information related to law to legal, economics, and business scholars and practitioners throughout the world. The LSN also sponsors over a dozen other topical legal journals, including in intellectual property. Attached is a copy of the most recent issue of Cyberspace Law Abstracts. As you can see, it contains abstracts of working papers, forthcoming publications, and some recently published articles. CLA was founded under the editorship of Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School. I am acting as editor during Professor Lessig's work on the Microsoft case, and we expect to act as co-editors upon completion of that work. The approach of the journal is inter-disciplinary: We will abstract papers in law and in other related social science disciplines that raise issues related to the regulation of cyberspace. We encourage international submissions. Posting an abstract of your written work can provide significant advantages. Your ideas will reach a wide audience of over 12,000 subscribers, far in excess of the readership of many conventional legal journals. Perhaps just as importantly, you ideas become available quickly. Final publication in a law review or a book can often take many months; by contrast, your abstract will become public in our next issue, generally within several weeks of submission. Especially for cyberspace topics, which famously change in Internet time, this quick publication can help your ideas enter the debate in a timely fashion. The way to post an abstract is explained in the attached issue. Essentially, you can e-mail me or submit an abstract through www.ssrn.com. We strongly encourage on-line posting of the full text of your work. This approach makes your work available immediately to the widest number of people. SSRN is happy to mount your document on its server; in the alternative, the CLA can link to your preferred web site. For articles that have been accepted for publication, your ability to post the article on-line may depend on who retains the copyright. If the journal has the copyright, you should know that some, but by no means all, journals have permitted on-line posting of the full text. The CLA also posts announcements of forthcoming conferences. In light of the many conferences related to cyberspace topics, we expect to focus on conferences where a large portion of the speakers are academics, and we will limit the number of conference announcements. If you are not currently a subscriber to the CLA, perhaps you will consider becoming one. The CLA is free at this time, although the plan is for the law publications to become available on a subscription basis in the future. For free journals such as the CLA, the simplest way to subscribe is to send an e-mail to <TRIAL@SSRN.COM> with "subscribe cyberspace law" in the subject line. In the body, please provide: Full Name: Telephone #: E-Mail Address: Organization or University: Title: Once again, thank you for your interest, and I hope you will consider sending us an abstract of your written work. Peter Swire
----------------------------------------------------------- CYBERSPACE LAW ABSTRACTS Number 11 May 15, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------ Editor: Peter Swire Published by the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) a division of Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Copyright by Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. (SSEP) 1998 All rights reserved. Special Notice -------------- This issue is being sent to you either on a trial basis or because you have subscribed to Cyberspace Law Abstracts (CYBERSPACE LAW). Cyberspace Law is free during the start-up phase of publication. 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If you need assistance downloading papers from our web site, please contact MAILTO:Kent_Cockrum@SSRN.Com |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||| TABLE OF CONTENTS ||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ------------------------------------------------------------ WORKING PAPER (see abstract below) ------------------------------------------------------------ "Information Asymmetry, the Internet, and Securities Offerings" BERNARD S. BLACK Columbia University (Previously abstracted in CSFLA No. 65, May 8, 1998.) ------------------------------------------------------------ ACCEPTED PAPERS (see abstracts below) ------------------------------------------------------------ "Governance of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Global Internet: A Multi-Layered Approach," in Edwards, L. and Waelde, C., eds., "Law and the Internet: Regulating Cyberspace," (1997), Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 223-241. YAMAN AKDENIZ University of Leeds "The Reality of Bytes: Regulating Economic Activity in the Age of the Internet," forthcoming in the Washington Law Review. MICHAEL A. GEIST Columbia University in the City of New York, School of Law "The 'Unsettled Paradox': The Internet, the State, and the Consent of the Governed," forthcoming in the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. DAVID G. POST Temple University Law School & Cyberspace Law Institute "Privacy and the Economics of Health Care Information," in the Texas Law Review. PAUL M. SCHWARTZ Brooklyn Law School (effective September 1998) (Previously abstracted in HEALTH, APS, Vol. 3, No. 3, May 1, 1998.) "The Medium is the Mistake: The Law of Software for the First Amendment," forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. R. POLK WAGNER Stanford University, School of Law ------------------------------------------------------------ PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNATIONAL ONLINE Law-Related Work on the Internet SEMINAR ------------------------------------------------------------ CYBERSPACE LAW INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------ * Editor * Advisory Board * About Cyberspace Law * Submitting Abstracts, Professional Announcements, and Job Openings * Missing Issues and Change of Address * Subscription Form Obtaining Papers ---------------- Unless otherwise noted, papers are available only from the author (or other source indicated below) in "hard copy." Provide your postal address when requesting a paper and please mention that you saw the abstract in CYBERSPACE LAW. 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Current version 2.0): http://www.claris.com/software/software.html Netscape: http://home.netscape.com/ Eudora: http://www.eudora.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ABSTRACT OF WORKING PAPER (published with permission) ------------------------------------------------------------ "Information Asymmetry, the Internet, and Securities Offerings" BY: BERNARD S. BLACK Columbia University SSRN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=84489 DATE: April 1998 CONTACT: Prof. Bernard S. Black E-MAIL: MAILTO:bblack@law.columbia.edu MAILTO:bsb2@columbia.edu POSTAL: Columbia Law School, 435 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10027-7201 PHONE: (212) 854-8079 FAX: (212) 854-7946 (212) 854-7941 LSN-REF: CYBERSPACE:WPS98-102 HARD COPY PAPER REQUESTS: Contact Genie Neal, Center for Law and Economic Studies, Columbia Law School, 435 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10027. Phone: (212) 854-2493. Fax: (212) 854-7941. E-mail: MAILTO:gneal@law.columbia.edu In this comment, prepared for a symposium on capital formation for small businesses, I express doubts about whether the Internet, as a new communication medium, will significantly reduce the cost of obtaining capital through a public or quasi-public offering. The most important single barrier standing between small companies and capital providers is information asymmetry-potential investors do not know, and cannot easily verify, the quality of the information that a company provides. The internet cannot do much to reduce information asymmetry costs, nor the costs of the reputational intermediaries that emerge in securities markets. On the contrary, the Internet could increase information asymmetry costs by undercutting the effectiveness of the institutions that today provide investors with partial assurance of the quality of the information provided by issuers. ------------------------------------------------------------ ACCEPTED PAPER ABSTRACTS (published with permission) ------------------------------------------------------------ "Governance of Pornography and Child Pornography on the Global Internet: A Multi-Layered Approach," in Edwards, L. and Waelde, C., eds., "Law and the Internet: Regulating Cyberspace," (1997), Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 223-241. BY: YAMAN AKDENIZ University of Leeds CONTACT: Mr. Yaman Akdeniz E-MAIL: MAILTO:lawya@leeds.ac.uk POSTAL: Centre For Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK PHONE: not available FAX: 011-44-0-113-2335056 LSN-REF: CYBERSPACE:APS98-109 How pornography should be regulated is one of the most controversial topics to have arisen in relation to the Internet in recent years. The widespread availability of pornography on the Internet has stirred up a 'moral panic' shared by the government, the media, and law enforcement bodies such as the police, prosecutors, and judges. There have been many attempts to limit the availability of pornographic content on the Internet by governments and law enforcement bodies all around the world. While the US Government introduced the Communications Decency Act 1996 ( CDA ), the UK police attempted to censor Usenet discussion groups allegedly carrying child pornography in the summer of 1996. Both attempts were criticized and the US Supreme Court struck down the CDA in June 1997. There is no settled definition of pornography, either in the United Kingdom itself, or in the multi-national environment of the Internet, where cultural, moral and legal variations all around the world make it difficult to define pornographic content in a way acceptable to all. What is considered simply sexually explicit but not obscene in England may well be obscene in many other countries; conversely what is considered lawful but not pornographic in Sweden may well be obscene under the current UK legislation. This chapter will discuss two different issues: the regulation of potentially harmful content such as pornography on the Internet; and regulation of invariably illegal content such as child pornography. These issues are different in nature and should not be confused. It is the submission of this paper that any regulatory action intended to protect a certain group of people, such as children, should not take the form of an unconditional prohibition of using the Internet to distribute certain content where that is freely available to adults in other media. Before explaining the possibilities of how to govern the availability of pornographic content on the global Internet, I will briefly discuss how and in what form these materials are available on the Internet. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The Reality of Bytes: Regulating Economic Activity in the Age of the Internet," forthcoming in the Washington Law Review, Vol. 73 (1998). BY: MICHAEL A. GEIST Columbia University in the City of New York, School of Law DATE: April 1998 CONTACT: Michael A. Geist, Associate in Law E-MAIL: MAILTO:mag76@columbia.edu POSTAL: Columbia University in the City of New York, School of Law, 435 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10027 PHONE: (212) 854-8389 FAX: (212) 854-7946 LSN-REF: CYBERSPACE:APS98-110 TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW: Contact the Washington Law Review, 1100 N.E. Campus Pkwy., University of Washington, Condon Hall, Seattle, WA 98105-6617. Phone: (206) 543-6335. Fax: (206) 616-4087. E-mail: MAILTO:wlr@u.washington.edu By utilizing both a backward and forward looking perspective, the article develops a model condusive to better understanding the Internet's legal implications on economic regulation as well as for how legislators and regulators ought to adapt their legal and regulatory frameworks to respond to it. The article canvasses the burgeoning development of Internet law, identifying two distinct stages that manifest themselves in the thinking of the judiciary, scholars, and government. The first stage, which spans from late 1994 to the end of 1996, was marked by numerous attempts to analogize the Internet to other legal systems, activities, or places. Led by the courts, the second stage began in early 1997, with a closer examination of the specific nature and quality of activity taking place on the Internet. Building on these developments, the article suggests that the Internet's impact on economic regulation is best understood by classifying its effects into four categories, each of the which will require a different regulatory response. The four categories are described as the Internet as a medium, the Internet as a catalyst, the Internet as change, and the Internet as administration. The article concludes by considering potential solutions for adapting economic regulation to the Internet. Drawing on the earlier analysis, it concludes that there is no single suitable solution or analogy to remedy the regulatory challenges posed by the Internet. Rather, as in real space, a combination of approaches will be necessary to create an effective regulatory framework. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The 'Unsettled Paradox': The Internet, the State, and the Consent of the Governed," forthcoming in the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1998). BY: DAVID G. POST Temple University Law School & Cyberspace Law Institute DATE: February 1998 CONTACT: Prof. David Post E-MAIL: MAILTO:dpost@vm.temple.edu POSTAL: 1719 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19122 PHONE: (215) 204-4539 FAX: (215) 204-1185 LSN-REF: CLPA:APS98-111 TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES: Contact the Business Editor, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Phone: (812) 855-8717. Settlement of the New World called for a fundamental re-examination of the nature of sovereignty and statehood. Reconciling the paradoxical notion that the state is somehow both an agent of the people, and a sovereign possessing final and unappealable power, was a central pre-occupation of political thought of the 17th and 18th centuries. This paradox was resolved by the radical English Whig theorists (and their equally radical republican counterparts in the Americas). They developed a new theory of sovereignty, which relocated the locus of truly sovereign power to the people and away from the legislative assembly, and indeed from all governmental institutions. The state's power, in this view, is entirely derivative -- the very opposite of "sovereign" -- flowing ultimately from the "consent of the governed." The people thus possess sovereign but delegable power, and constitute the state as their agent for the purpose of engaging in collective action conducive to their pursuit of happiness. This normative view of states as constituted agents whose power derives from the people's collective will -- a view that has come to be labeled the "Liberal" theory of statehood -- is an "a-territorial" one insofar as it discards notions of physical territoriality and physical power as the bases for the exercise of sovereign power. And, as such, the Liberal theory appears well suited to an increasingly a-territorial, networked world. The settlement of the new domain of cyberspace may enable us to take more seriously than ever before the possibility that individuals in the ordinary course of their affairs can create governmental entities that lack territorial status. We can see a-territorial consensual associations with no geographical referents whatsoever onto which a portion of "sovereignty" devolves. I explore in this paper some of the implications this may have for evolving normative theories of statehood and for related questions of the extraterritorial assertion of jurisdiction by existing territorial states. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Privacy and the Economics of Health Care Information," in the Texas Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (1997). BY: PAUL M. SCHWARTZ Brooklyn Law School (effective September 1998) DATE: May 1998 CONTACT: Prof. Paul M. Schwartz E-MAIL: MAILTO:pschwartz@lexis-nexismail.com POSTAL: Case Western Reserve University Law School, 11075 E. Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106 PHONE: (216) 368-3280 FAX: (216) 368-2086 LSN-REF: CYBERSPACE:APS98-112 TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEXAS LAW REVIEW: Contact the Texas Law Review, 727 E. Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX 78705. Phone: (512) 471-3164. Fax: (512) 471-3282. Copyright 1997 by the Texas Law Review Association. Reprinted by permission. Genetic science permits, to a previously unimaginable degree, predictions as to the illnesses that a person might confront in the future. At the same time, information technology permits greater transmission, sharing, and storage of personal health care data at ever lower costs on a national and even international basis. Electronic health care records are becoming commonplace in the health care industry. The combination of easy electronic dissemination of highly sensitive data, such as personal genetic information, and use of these data to predict future health risks has already caused significant harm. The critical issue is how the law should structure the use of personal medical data by government and private enterprise alike. Privacy and the Economics of Personal Health Care Information proposes that a strong economic argument can be made in favor of information privacy. In the current marketplace for health care and employment -- and any such markets that we are likely to have in the future -- an economically efficient regulation for health care information requires rules that are tied to and follow these data through various uses. Once identifiable health care information is created, it should remain protected health information that is subject to fair information practices. These norms should take the form of multidimensional standards that create both background terms around which parties can negotiate and a smaller set of mandatory rules that will be binding. Such standards seek both to minimize the costs of contracting in the privacy marketplace and to force the party with superior knowledge about the use of personal information to disgorge it. This Article also develops the essential fair information practices that should be implemented in a federal health care privacy statute. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The Medium is the Mistake: The Law of Software for the First Amendment," forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (1998). BY: R. POLK WAGNER Stanford University, School of Law SSRN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=80348 OTHER ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY: http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/98_wagner_1/index.htm SSRN provides support only for papers downloaded from the SSRN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY location. DATE: April 1998 CONTACT: Mr. R. Polk Wagner E-MAIL: MAILTO:polk@pobox.com POSTAL: Hulme 4D, Escondido Village, Stanford, CA 94305-8610 PHONE: (650) 497-6675 FAX: none LSN-REF: CYBERSPACE:APS98-113 TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE STANFORD LAW REVIEW: Contact the Stanford Law Review, Stanford Law School, Crown Quadrangle, Stanford, CA 94305-8610. Fax: (415) 725-0253. Voice: (415) 723-4190. Is computer software - code written by humans that instructs a computer to perform certain tasks - protected by the First Amendment? The answer to this question will significantly impact the course of future technological regulation, and will affect the scope of free expression rights in new media. In this note, I attempt to establish a framework for analysis, noting at the outset that the truly important question in this context is the threshold question: what is "speech or . . . the press"? I first describe two general ways that the Supreme Court has addressed the threshold question. One is ontologically: focusing on the expressive content of the speaker s conduct or the medium chosen. The second is teleologically: determining whether the regulation at issue implicates free expression. I argue that the teleological mode -- especially as applied to computer software and other new media -- is the more likely to be consistently speech-protective, and that the courts that have addressed computer software have mistakenly opted for an ontological medium-focused analysis. Use of a teleological approach implies that there should be no "law of software" -- a conclusion that I argue holds the most promise for extending robust First Amendment protections into new mediums of communication. ------------------------------------------------------------ PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNATIONAL ONLINE SEMINAR Law-Related Work on the Internet You are kindly invited to participate in an international online seminar about "Law-Related Work on the Internet." The aim of this university course, organized by the "Institut fuer Rechtsinformatik" (Institute of Computer Science and Law), is to show how the Internet can be effectively used to work more efficiently. A focus will be put on the special interests and needs in the legal sector. For further information and registration you can take a look at our WWW site: http://seminar.jura.uni-sb.de There are no fees to be paid! The course will start at the beginning of May and last until the end of July. It is structured in various phases in which participants will have to work alone and in groups on certain topics around the Internet. Group work will be organized via E-Mail, based on the WWW. Other activities will be the participation in an online conference on legal issues, quizzes, HTML-Design and work with search-engines. An active participation of at least 2 hours per week is absolutely required. To take part in the seminar you only need to have an access to the WWW. Further information on the activities of the Institute of Computer Science and Law and its "Law-related Internet project" can be found at: http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/ or http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/english/ (English service) or http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/france/ (French Service) ------------------------------------------------------------ CYBERSPACE LAW INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------ CYBERSPACE LAW EDITOR --------------- PETER SWIRE Associate Professor of Law, Ohio State University College of Law CYBERSPACE LAW ADVISORY BOARD ---------------------- A. MICHAEL FROOMKIN Associate Professor of Law, University Miami School of Law Fellow, Cyberspace Law Institute; Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Online Law; Foreign Associate, the Royal Institute of International Affairs I. TROTTER HARDY Professor of Law, William and Mary School of Law; Editor, the Journal of Online Law DAVID R. JOHNSON Chairman, Counsel Connect; Co-Director, Cyberspace Law Institute ETHAN KATSH Professor of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Co-Director, Online Ombuds Office; Fellow, Cyberspace Law Institute; Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Online Law, Cyberlaw, Technolaw, and West Legal Network MARK A. LEMLEY Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Law; Of Counsel, Fish & Richardson, P.C.; Member, Board of Editors, American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal; Advisory Editor, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal JESSICA LITMAN Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School DAVID POST Associate Professor of Law, Temple University Law School; Co-Director, Cyberspace Law Institute; Editorial Board, Lexis Electronic Authors Press MARGARET JANE RADIN William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Founding board of editors, Legal Theory; Co-Director, Cyberspace Law Institute PAMELA SAMUELSON Professor of Law and of Information Management, University of California at Berkeley; Contributing Editor, Communications of the ACM; Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation EUGENE VOLOKH Acting Professor of Law, UCLA Law School ABOUT CYBERSPACE LAW -------------- This journal publishes abstracts of papers dealing with all aspects of the regulation of cyberspace, whether that regulation is through law, social norms, or the architecture of the network. The approach of the journal is inter-disciplinary: We will abstract papers in law and in other related social science disciplines that raise issues related to the regulation of cyberspace. Comments and suggestions about Cyberspace Law are welcome. 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