First class outline

1.Hello, welcome

2.Outline of today

3.Teachers

One, possible guest

Me: convening, marking

Others?

Contact

4.Contents - see classes

Go through each

Timing: 12-1:10, 1:30-2:50; 3-4:10, 4:30-5:50;

5.Materials

Web site

See general notes

Galexia extranet

ID: cyberlawstudentgrokster05

6.Assessment

See general notes

Case study: week 3 and 9

Essay: week3 and 12

7.Exercise 1: protocols and tools

Email

Web searching

Browsing

ICQ

SMS

File transfer/MP3

Video

Software

Virus/

hacking

8.Exercise 2: services/experiences

Domain registration

Email forwarding

Identity fraud

Online banking

Purchase books etc

Download music

Offended by material

Worked at ISP

Worked at web developer

Had content stolen from you

Been hacked

Been defamed

Been locked by accessibility issues

Had international issues

Been spied upon

9.Web 2.0 - discuss?

  • Developing issues – your help?
  • Materials will be supplemented with web 2.0 issues

10.About the law

  • Concrete
  • Constitutional government, 3 wings
  • Legislation
  • Case law
  • Jurisdiction
  • Discretion
  • Crim/admin/contract – private or public law?
  • Enforcement
  • Non state regulatory models: Internet governance
  • Lessig Code

11.Intro to jurisdiction: Independence

12.Questions?

13.After break: the iiNet sample docs, and the online service

14.Online Service(s): class to work on options and plans for an online Web 2.0 service, either just for class or for wider use.

  • Collaborative case study development?
  • Task: investigate online options for collaborative case study development, inc say Dropbox, Moodle, Facebook, Blackboard, Confluence, other wiki?
  • Focus on critical features of service, and in particular terms of use, hosting, privacy, security, legal liability.
  • Report back next week

Brainstorm to start thinking about how you would design it

  • Process: iterative prototyping, risk focus, user centred design
  • Project planning: time, resources, scope, quality
  • Who is the audience? Is it this class?
  • What do they want and need from us/this
  • What can we offer?
  • What sort of information will be involved?
  • What sort of functionality?
  • What tools are available (facebook, twitter, wiki, instapaper/Diig, UNSW tools etc)
  • How much effort would they need to look after?
  • What legal or other risks of using the chosen one? How compare with our risk tolerance?

How would you choose between the alternative possible functions, or tools?

Several stages:

1. now: look at the whole process, plan stages

2. clarify the audience needs/expectations, priorities

2A, as it is web 2, clarify our contributors needs, expectations, priorities - are they the same?

3. What can we offer? How? effort? Lifespan? Information? Tools needed: functionality

4. discuss the alternative tools, compare, choose a few, map out first steps

5. Start trial, plan the information architecture, set up the framework

6. invite users,

15.Questions?

Semester 1, 2012 - Room: Materials Science G11 (E8) 12-3pm/ Law 303 (F8) 3-6pm

Wk / Date / Topic / Teacher / Notes and readings
1 / Tuesday
28 Feb
12-3 pm / 1. Course Intro and administration / David Vaile / Essential
  • Course outline

2 / 6 March / 2. Introduction to cyberspace regulation
  • Brief introduction to the Internet
  • Theoretical approaches to cyberspace law and regulation
/ David Vaile / slides
  • Materials: Theories topic

3 / 13 March / 3. Domain Names: - Governance
  • Governance of cyberspace
  • ICANN, ICANN reform
  • Disputes: Domain names and trademarks
  • Domain name disputes, UDRP
/ David Vaile / Case note topics available
  • Materials: Domain Names

4 / 20 March / 4. Content Regulation
  • US attempts to legislate, other countries
  • Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (Cth) Sch 5, 7
  • State enforcement, Role of ACMA
  • IIA Codes of Conduct
  • Other content laws
/ David Vaile / Essay topics available
  • Materials: Content Regulation
  • 'Studies on violence' (games)
  • Censorship and filter references

5 / 27 March / 5. Cyber crime
  • Computer crimes
  • Online crimes
  • Hacking and denial of service attacks
  • state-sponsored attacks?
/ David Vaile /
  • Materials: Cybercrime

6 / 3 April / 6. Defamation
  • Flaming
  • ISP Liability
/ David Vaile /
  • Materials: Defamation

- / 10 April / Mid-semester break - no class / - / -
7 / 17 April / Law Reading week - no class / - / -
8 / 24 April / 7. Privacy
  • Identification
  • Privacy laws, Privacy policies
  • PITs and PETs
  • Workplace surveillance
8. Accessibility obligations
  • Access issues
  • Discrimination
  • Accessibility standards
/ David Vaile /
  • Materials: Privacy
  • Materials: Accessibility

9 / 1 May / 9. Copyright in Cyberspace
  • Napster, Grokster
  • Digital Agenda and US FTA Legislation
  • Anti-circumvention
  • ISP liability, iiNet
/ David Vaile / Briefing notes due
3 pm Friday
  • Materials: Copyright

10 / 8 May / 10. eCommerce
  • EFT Code, Digital cash
  • Scams and swindles
  • Account Aggregation
/ David Vaile /
  • Materials: Ecommerce [PPT],[RTF]

11 / 15 May / 11. Consumer Protection
  • Policy framework
  • Codes of Conduct
  • Dispute resolution
/ David Vaile /
  • Materials: Consumer [PPT] [RTF]
Common case note issues
12 / 22 May / 12. Internet Jursidiction
  • Case law
  • International treaties
  • International arbitration
/ David Vaile /
  • Materials: Jurisdiction
Final Assignment due end of week
(3 pm Friday)
13 / 29 May / 13. Overview, and review of Web 2.0
  • Current developments
  • Future trends
  • 'Storm in a teacup' or 'everything changed'?
/ David Vaile /
  • Materials: Web 2.0 issues

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