Internet and the Law

Aaron Schwabach is professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, CA.

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Preface
Introduction: Law and the Internet—A Historical Overview
Chronology: Key Events in the Development of Computer and Internet Law
How to Use This Encyclopedia
Overview of the U.S. Legal System
International and Foreign Law
How to Find the Law
How to Read the Law
How to Read the Cites Used in This Volume
How to Find Out More about Computer Terms
Table of Abbreviations
Internet and the Law
[AACS]
Abandonware
Activism and Advocacy Groups
Advanced Access Content System
Advertising
Adware and Spyware
America Invents Act
[Analog Hole]
Analog Recording
Anonymity
[Anonymous]
[Anticircumvention Provisions]
[Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act]
[Antitrust]
App
Audio Home Recording Act
Backup Copies
Berne Convention
[BitTorrent]
[Blackberry]
[Blocking and Filtering Software]
[Botnet]
[Brandjacking]
Broadband
Budapest Open Access Initiative
[Buenos Aires Convention]
Business Methods Patent
Cable
[CAN-SPAM Act]
[Cell Phone]
Censorship
Certificate
Child Online Protection Act
Child Pornography
Children's Internet Protection Act
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Choice of Law
[Cipher and Ciphertext]
[Circumvention of Technological Measures]
Class Action
Clickwrap Agreement
Cloud
[Codes and Code-Breaking]
.com
Communications Decency Act
[Computer Fraud and Abuse Act]
[Computer Maintenance Competition Assurance Act]
Computer Program
Constitutional Law
Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
Content Industry
[Content Scramble System]
Contracts
Cookies
[Copyleft]
Copyright
Copyright Alert System
Copyright Infringement
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
[Cracking]
[Cryptography]
[CSS]
Cyber
Cyberlaw
Cyberpunk
Cyberspace
Cybersquatting
[Cypherpunk]
Data Haven
Data Mining
Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
[Decryption]
DeCSS
Defamation
Denial-of-Service Attack
Derivative Works
Digital Audio Works
Digital Divide
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title I
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title II
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title III
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title IV
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title V
Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act
Digital Rights Management
[DMCA]
Doctrine of Equivalents
Domain Name Registration
Doubleclick
[Droid]
E-Books
E-Commerce
[Electronic Rights Management]
Encryption
Enforcement
[Facebook]
Fair Use (Copyright)
Fair Use (Trademark)
Fan Works
[Federal Circuit]
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Trade Commission
File-Sharing
File-Sharing and the Courts (Attempts to Control Technology)
File-Sharing and the Courts (Litigation against Individual Users)
File-Sharing (Other Media)
[File Wrapper Estoppel]
Firewall
First Amendment
First Sale
[Freedom of Expression]
[Free Speech]
French Yahoo! Case
[Friendster]
Gambling
[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]
[GNU/Linux]
[Gutenberg Project]
Hacking
[ICANN]
Identity Theft
Indecency
[Industrial Designs]
[Integrated Circuit Layouts]
Intellectual Property
International Copyright Protection
International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations
International Patent Protection
International Trademark Protection
Internet
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Internet Service Providers
[iPhone]
[Junk E-Mail]
Jurisdiction
[Last Mile]
[Libraries]
[Likelihood of Confusion]
[LinkedIn]
[Linux]
[LiveJournal]
Look and Feel
Macrovision
Madrid Agreement and Madrid Protocol
Malware
Menu Command Hierarchy
Metatags
Microsoft Antitrust Litigation
Mobile Device
Moral Rights
[Mousetrapping]
MP3
[Napster]
[NCIPA]
Net Neutrality
No Electronic Theft Act
Obscenity
[Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act]
Open Source
[Orphaned Technology]
P2P
[Palladium]
[Parody]
Paris Convention
[Paris Union]
Patent
Patent Cooperation Treaty
[Peer-to-Peer]
Phishing
Phreaking
[PIPA]
Piracy
Pornography
Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act
Privacy
Project Gutenberg
Prosecution History Estoppel
[Protect IP Act]
[Pseudonymity]
Public Domain
QR Code
Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments
Recording Industry Association of America
[RIAA]
[Rootkit]
[Rovi Corporation]
[Safe Harbor]
Search Engine
[Secure Socket Layer]
[Security Systems Standards and Certification Act]
Semiconductor Manufacturing Mask Work Registrations
Social Networking Service
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
[SOPA]
Spam
[Spyware]
Steganography
Stop Online Piracy Act
Taxation
[Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act]
Three-Dimensional Printing
Trademark
Trademark Dilution
Trademark Infringement
Trademark Law Treaty
[Trademark Registration Treaty]
[Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights]
Trade Secret
TRIPS
TRIPS (Copyright)
TRIPS (Industrial Designs and Integrated Circuit Layouts)
TRIPS (Patent)
TRIPS (Trademark)
TRIPS (Trade Secrets)
Trojan
[Typosquatting]
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
Universal Copyright Convention
[Vessel Hull Design Protection Act]
[Vintage Software]
Virus
Voluntary Collective License
Warez
[Web]
Web Browser
WikiLeaks
WIPO
[WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act]
WIPO Copyright Treaty
WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty
[World Intellectual Property Organization]
World Wide Web
Worm
.xxx
Yahoo!
Zombie
Appendix I: Glossary
Appendix II: Selected Documents
Appendix III: Bibliography
Appendix IV: Table of Authorities
Index