cybersecurity

CSE 491 & CJ 491

Interdisciplinary Topics in CyberSecurity

Course Description

MSU has a unique collaboration among six colleges in the important, emerging field of CyberSecurity.  This course pulls faculty from six colleges to provide at least six different perspectives on this broad topic.  In this course you will be exposed to the technical, legal, criminal, business, and communication aspects of CyberSecurity.

Credits:  3

Suggested Prerequisite:  CSE 101 or equivalent

Time:  Tue 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Room:  1420 BioMed & Phy Sci

Coordinator:  Prof. Rich Enbody (CSE)

Reading Assignments

Week 5 (9/23) : Jurisdiction and Applicable Laws in Cyberspace

This class explores the theoretical debate about the territorial and jurisdictional limits of cyberspace and examines the question as to what laws should be applicable to online activities. It also provides an overview of how to resolve choice of law issues concerning transactions conducted on the Internet.

Required Readings:

• David R. Johnson & David G. Post, Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, 48 Stan. L. Rev. 1367 (1996) (excerpt)

• Jack L. Goldsmith, The Internet and the Abiding Significance of Territorial Sovereignty, 5 Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. 475 (1998) (excerpt)

• Jack L. Goldsmith, Against Cyberanarchy, 65 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1199 (1998) (excerpt)

• David G. Post, Against "Against Cyberanarchy," 17 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1365 (2002) (excerpt)

• Yahoo!, Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme Et L’antisemitisme, 169 F. Supp. 2d 1181 (N.D. Cal. 2001) (excerpt)

• Playboy Enter., Inc. v. Chuckleberry Publ'g, Inc., 939 F. Supp. 1032 (S.D.N.Y. 1996)

• Peter K. Yu, Conflict of Laws Issues in International Copyright Cases, Gigalaw.com (Apr. 2001) (excerpt)

Optional Readings:

     Note:  Optional readings will NOT be discussed in class.

• Curtis A. Bradley, Territorial Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Globalism, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 505 (1997)

• Jane C. Ginsburg: Copyright Without Borders? Choice of Forum and Choice of Law for Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace, 15 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 153 (1997)

• Dan Hunter, Cyberspace as Place and the Tragedy of the Digital Anticommons, 91 Cal. L. Rev. 439 (2003)

• Mark A. Lemley, Place and Cyberspace, 91 Cal. L. Rev. 521 (2003)

• David G. Post, Anarchy, State, and the Internet: An Essay on Law-Making in Cyberspace, 1995 J. Online L. art. 3

• I. Trotter Hardy, The Proper Legal Regime for “Cyberspace,” 55 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 993 (1994)

• Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Cyberspace Self-Government: Town Hall Democracy or Rediscovered Royalism?, 12 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 413 (1997)

• Edward J. Valauskas, Lex Networkia: Understanding the Internet Community, First Monday, Oct. 7, 1996

Week 6 (9/30) : The Two Faces of Encryption

This class focuses on the varying laws and legislative proposals concerning encryption technologies and the circumvention of these technologies. It discusses the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Global Internet Freedom Act, and censorship and anti-censorship efforts in foreign countries.

Required Readings:

• Peter K. Yu, The Escalating Copyright Wars, 32 Hofstra L. Rev. (forthcoming 2004)  Read Introduction and Part I ONLY

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Anti-circumvention Provision), 17 U.S.C. § 1201  Skim the statute and use it as reference while reading Week 6 handout

• Jane C. Ginsburg, Copyright Legislation for the “Digital Millennium,” 23 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 137 (1999) (excerpt)

• Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 294 (2000), aff’d sub nom. Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley, 273 F. 3d 429 (2d Cir.  2001) (excerpt)

• Global Internet Freedom Act, H. R. 48, 108th Cong. (2003)

• Jonathan Zittrain & Benjamin Edelman, Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China (2003)

Optional Readings:

     Note:  Optional readings will NOT be discussed in class.

• Dan L. Burk, Anticircumvention Misuse, 50 UCLA L. Rev. 1095 (2003)

• David Nimmer, Back from the Future: A Proleptic Review of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 16 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 855 (2001)

• David Nimmer, A Riff on Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 673 (2000)

• David Nimmer, Appreciating Legislative History: The Sweet and Sour Spots of the DMCA’s Commentary, 23 Cardozo L. Rev. 909 (2002)

• Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., The Death of Copyright: Digital Technology, Private Copying, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 87 Va. L. Rev. 813 (2001)

• Matt Jackson, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998: A Proposed Amendment to Accommodate Free Speech, 5 Comm. L. & Pol’y 61 (2000)

• Pamela Samuelson, Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy: Why the Anti-Circumvention Regulations Need to Be Revised, 14 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 519 (1999)

• Pamela Samuelson, The U.S. Digital Agenda at WIPO, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 369 (1997)

• Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, Adrift in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: The Sequel, 26 U. Dayton L. Rev. 279 (2001)