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Agenda

IP/IT basic law

Discuss particularly dangerous

business relationship

Specific laws for Web operators

Learn how to do some of this

yourself

IP Basics: Rob Hassett

Development Projects:Larry Kunin

Special Web Issues

But first, a question

Fair Housing Act: Unlawful to publish … any … advertisement, with respect to a rental … that indicates a preference based on

race, color, religion, sex…. Craigslist:

No minoritiesRequirements: Clean Godly

Christian Male Roomates.com

Willing to live w/ gay males only

Bad Things That Can Happen COPPA Obscenity Kid Porn Copyright Infringement Defamation Privacy: Appropriation Privacy: False Light Privacy: Intrusion Privacy: Disclosure Fair Housing Act Truth in Advertising

DMCA Safe Harbor

“Takedown notice provisions”

The Basics: CDA

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall

be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information

provided by another information content provider.

Bad Things That Can Happen COPPA Obscenity Kid Porn Copyright Infringement - DMCA Defamation Privacy: Appropriation Privacy: False Light Privacy: Intrusion Privacy: Disclosure Fair Housing Act Truth in Advertising

CDA

Why the different result?

No provider … of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher … of any

information provided by another information content provider

Craigslist:No minoritiesRequirements: Clean Godly

Christian Male

Roomates.comWilling to live w/ gay males only

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