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1986 Communications Privacy Act - Full Title - "The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986: A Layman's View" Covers the two main sections of the act, Interception of Communications and Stored Communications and Records Access. Plain, clear text about a complicated issue.

Access Rights -- All Power to the Sysop? - Some enlightened sysops will create mechanisms by means of which users can participate in making rules and overseeing their enforcement. Will those sysops prosper in preference to others who act less accountably?

Almost 2001 - Script from the NBC "Almost 2001" computer crime news report aired May 1994.

An Introduction to Computer Security For Lawyers - This article attempts to broadly cover questions of computer security in the small business or law firm.

Barbed Wire Fences in Cyberspace - Full Title - "Barbed Wire Fences in Cyberspace: The Threat Posed by Calls for Ownership of Transactional Information"

Civil Liberties in Cyberspace - Full Title - "Civil Liberties in Cyberspace: When does hacking turn from an exercise of civil liberties into crime?"

Computer Crime Cases - Compiled list of computer crimes that have been tried and appealed.

Computer Crime Laws - List of computer crime related statutes by state.

Computer Crimes Cases Summaries - Summaries of various computer crime cases that have been tried.

Computer Law Bibliography - 1991 bibliography of computer-law related materials, especially on the subject of copyrights and digital media (computer software, CD-ROM, etc.) for librarianship.

Computer Privacy vs. First and Fourth Amendment Rights - This paper discusses cyberspace and its increasing role in the life of every human being, not just those who actually use a computer, and explores the legal battles and rights issues regarding cyberspace.

Copyright Fair Use Doctrine - This is a simple and clear legal explanation of the doctrine of "fair use" as a defense to charges of copyright infringement, excerpted from Judge Whyte's decision, Sept. 22, 1995, in RTC & Bridge v. Erlich, Netcom & Klemesrud.

Creating Network Redistribution Rights - Full Title - "Creating Network Redistribution Rights -- Does Electronic Information Really Want to Be Free?"

Cyberspace and the Legal Matrix: Laws or Confusion? - Article on legal aspects of electronic networks, or "cyberspace". First part is an overview of the many types of laws that may apply to different network situations. Second part examines some of the problems and results arising from clashes between differrent laws and regulations of cyberspace.

Cyberspace, the Free Market and the Free Marketplace of Ideas - Full Title - "Cyberspace, the Free Market and the Free Marketplace of Ideas: Recognizing Legal Differences in Computer Bulletin Board Functions"

Defamation Liability of Computerized Bulletin Board Operators and Problems of Proof - The scope of this Comment is to examine issues that arise in tracing computerized defamation to its true source. Must read for all SYSOPS and potential SYSOPS concerning your liability for information posted on your BBS.

Dispute Resolution in Cyberspace - Should the networks themselves evolve new and better ways to resolve the disputes that arise in connection with their use?...

DOJ Search and Seizure Guidelines - EPIC Analysis of New Justice Department Draft Guidelines on Searching and Seizing Computers.

E-Law - Full Title - "E-Law: Legal Issues Affecting Computer Information Systems and System Operator Liability"

Electrifying Speech - Full Title - "ELECTRIFYING SPEECH: New Communications Technologies and Traditional Civil Liberties". A 1992 paper from Human Rights Watch. Discusses questions and legal issues arisen from the new communications technologies, and long held assumptions about individual and communal rights.

Electronic Communications Privacy - Full Title - "Electronic Communications Privacy: Good Sysops Should Build Good Fences"

Electronic Communications Privacy Act - Full Act along with relevant sections of other laws.

Electronic Publications - Brian Peretti's Feb 1994 article dealing with computer publications and the first amendment.

Electronic Rights - ASCII version of a printed booklet distributed at the American Library Association conference in July 1991 dealing with citizen rights and access to electronic information.

Email and Privacy Bibliography - Stacy Veeder's Jan and December 1991 bibliography of material relating to privacy and e-mail.

Email Liability - Mike Riddle article, "Sysop Liability for En-Route (and/or Encrypted) Mail".

Email Privacy Cases - Legal case citings relevant to the issue of privacy in email, divided into two groups: US Constitutional law, and California law.

FAQ - Copyright - Terry Carroll's misc.legal Copyright FAQ

FAQ - Copyright Myths - A discussion on the facts and myths surrounding copyright law including computers and the Internet. Written by Terry Carroll and contains all six volumes of the FAQ.

FAQ - Legal Research - Legal Research FAQ.

Free Competition in the Legal Information Field - Report of the October 25 meeting with DOJ was written by Professor Carole Hafner dealing with the need for Free Competition in the Legal Information Field.

Granularity and the Law of Cyberspace - With regard to intellectual property doctrine, the simultaneous bigness and smallness of intellectual artifacts in cyberspace causes serious problems.

Internet Libel: Is the Provider Responsible - An exploration of some of the many issues that surround the problem of libel in modern networking. It's a fear every Internet service provider faces at least once: How responsible am I going to be if someone libels someone else on my system?

Investigating and Prosecuting Network Intrusions - Presentation by John C. Smith of the Santa Clara County (CA) District Attorney's Office.

Jurisdictional Quid Pro Quo and the Law of Cyberspace - ...both national and international law doctrines regarding jurisdiction rely heavily on questions regarding the (1) the extent of the voluntary "contacts" the relevant person has had with the interested jurisdiction and (2) the fairness of asserting personal jurisdiction over the acts of a foreign person.

Law Enforcement and The Architecture of Cyberspace - Full Title - "Law Enforcement and The Architecture of Cyberspace -- Should the Cops on the Beat Design the Electronic Street?"

Lawmaking and Law Enforcement in Cyberspace - One way to advance exploration of the question whether Cyberspace should be self-regulating (or, perhaps, even "sovereign" within its sphere) is to discuss in concrete terms how the law of Cyberspace can be made and enforced so as to achieve both effectiveness and fundamental principles of fairness.

Legal Overview: The Electronic Frontier and the Bill of Rights - Striking balances properly among freedom of speech, the right to privacy and protection from unwarranted governmental intrusion will not be easy, but if they are struck too far in one direction or the other, important social and legal values surely will be sacrificed.

Libel, Public Figures, and the Ne - Discusses the legal protection afforded to critics of public figures, who might otherwise be liable for defamation if their target were not a public figure, and how all this relates to cyberspace.

Media Performance and International Law - A short essay on the international covenants and conventions that govern media behavior in the international arena. How do governments restrict international information exchange, how much can they restrict it, and what are the precedents?

Multimedia Legalities - A primer for non-lawyers on the legal issues in developing online and multimedia products, includes a description of the legal issues in creating a hypothetical multimedia work. By J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe. Revised, 1996.

Obscenity and Indecency - Journalist Todd Lappin explains obscenity and indecency (and the differences between them) in lay terms.

Prosecuting Computer Criminals - Article discussing the ability and extent of using state computer crime statutes.

Publishing on the Internet - Full Title - "PUBLISHING ON THE INTERNET: SOME LEGAL PROTECTIONS AND PITFALLS"

Rewarding Authorship in Cyberspace - Full Title - "Rewarding Authorship in Cyberspace: Is Intellectual Property the Answer or the Problem?"

Search and Seizure Guidelines - Mitch Kapor & Mike Godwin, "Civil Liberties Implications of Computer Searches and Seizures: Some Proposed Guidelines for Magistrates Who Issue Search Warrants".

Search and Seizure Speech - Harvey A. Sliverglate & Thomas C. Viles, "CONSTITUTIONAL, LEGAL, AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR DEALING WITH ELECTRONIC FILES IN THE AGE OF CYBERSPACE", from Federal Enforcement Conference 1991, Washington DC. How far can governments, companies and individuals go when gaining access to information?

Sex and the Single Sysadmin - Full Title - "SEX AND THE SINGLE SYSADMIN: The risks of carrying graphic sexual materials."

Software Licensing - October 1994 observations on current and future trends in software licensing practices. While U.S. issues are emphasized, some global issues are also addressed because of the trend toward global computing environments and the importance of international revenues to the U.S. software industry. By Fred Greguras & Sandy Wong, 1994. Title: "Software Licensing Flexibility Complements the Digital Age".

Taking Cyberspace Seriously: Dealing with Obnoxious Messages on the Net - Territorially-based laws fail us when we confront new phenomena involving participants whose geographical locations span legal jurisdictions and have little relationship to the locus of the harms they might inflict...

Telecommunications and Hate Crime Position - Detailed EFF position paper, sent as an open letter to NTIA, in response to an NTIA "Request for Comments" on a government study of "hate crimes" and the online world.

Telecommunications and Hate Crimes Request for Comment - Info on a National Telecommunications and Information Administration study on hate crimes" and telecommunications, including BBSs. This is the NTIA's 1993 Request for Comments on the issue.

TEMPEST Legal Status - Christopher Seline, "Eavesdropping On the Electromagnetic Emanations of Digital Equipment: The Laws of Canada, England and the United States", draft article. This document explores the legal status of a surveillance technology known as TEMPEST.

The Coming Jurisdictional Swamp of Global Internetworking - Overview of several reasons why anonymity on the Net is a good idea, and a look at the many ways in which a foreign jurisdiction can exercise authority over citizens of other countries.

The Constitution in Cyberspace - The keynote address at the First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy - 1991.

The Electronic Pamphlet--Computer Bulletin Boards and the Law - A round-up of key legal aspects of running a BBS. Covered are BBS and the 1st Amendment, Operation Sun Devil, access rights to information, sysop liability for defamation and copyright infringement, etc.

The Feds and the Net: Closing the Culture Gap - It was about halfway through my lecture at the FBI Academy at Quantico last fall that I began to sense in my audience a rising hostility...

The Future of the Net - As It Pertains to Lawyers - As we contemplate the inevitable emergence of new disputes and some new creative opportunities, all of us who are lawyers should look carefully at the wonderful things that have been accomplished on the net without any traditional law...

The Law of the Net: Problems and Prospects - An article discussing the problems of civil and criminal law that one encounters when attempting to apply them to networking environments (incl. libel, intellectual property, etc.)

The Legal List - Full Title - "The Legal List: Law-Related Resources on the Internet and Elsewhere"

The New Case Law of Cyberspace - Can we use the net itself to perform adjudication and to create a[n online equivalent of] "common law"?

The Supreme Court and Electronic Surveillance - Full Title - "The Supreme Court and Electronic Surveillance: A Study of Originalism, the Fourth Amendment, and the Powers of Law Enforcement."

The Unscrupulous Diner's Dilemma and Anonymity in Cyberspace - "The ultimate implication, I believe, is that to achieve a civilized form of cyberspace, we have to limit the use of anonymous communications."

Updated Computer Crimes Cases Summaries - An updated list of computer crimes tried, updated May 1, 1995.

US Computer Crime State Laws - US states' computer crime statutes.

Virtual Community Standards - Full Title - "VIRTUAL COMMUNITY STANDARDS: BBS Obscenity Case Raises New Legal Issues"

Volume Controls in Cyberspace? - Full Title - "Volume Controls in Cyberspace? -- Hard First Amendment Questions in the Age of Electronic Networking"