E-Commerce Syllabus
The casebook is online at
I have recommended Robert Sloan and Richard Warner, Unauthorized Access: The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security, which is in the bookstore, and also available over
There will be take-home exam. There will be two questions. One will be a short answer question which everyone must answer. The second question will be a longer essay. You may write a paper instead of answering the second question; the paper will be due at the same time as the exam, which is the last day of exams.
Contracts and the value of information
Stewart Brand, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT
Beales and Muris, Choice or Consequences: Protecting Privacy in Commercial Information
Standard form contracting and the duty to read
Carnival Cruise Lines v. Shute
Beales and Muris, Choice or Consequences: Protecting Privacy in Commercial Information
The updating problem: consideration
Dougherty v. Salt
In Re Zappos
Linder v. Mid-Continent
Offer and acceptance online
Lefkowitz v. Great Minneapolis Surplus Stores
ProCD v. Zeidenberg
Specht v. Netscape
UETA, UCITA, and E-Sign
Richard Warner, UETA, UCITA, and E-Sign
The updating problem: offer and acceptance
Douglas v. Talk America
Voluntariness
Hennigsen v. Bloomfield Motors
Lemley, Terms of Use
Radin, Humans, Computers, and Binding Commitment
Schwartz & Solove, Notice and Choice: Implications for Digital Marketing to Youth
Todd Rakoff, Contracts of Adhesion: An Essay In Reconstruction
Disclaimers, limitations, exculpatory and indemnity clauses
Gatton v. T-Mobile
Patco v. People’s United Bank
Data breaches
Reilly v. Ceridian Corp.
Pinero v. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service
Big Data
Sorrel v. IMS Health
Google v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos
License or sale?
MDY v. Blizzard
Capitol Records v. ReDigi
Fair use and related issues
Princeton University Press v. Mich. Document Servs.
Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley Ltd.
MDY v. Blizzard
Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Music Markets and Mythologies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.
Trespass
CompuServe v. CyberPromotions
eBay v. Bidders’ Edge
Intel v. Hamidi
Craigslist v. 3Taps
Pearl Investments v. Standard I/O
Database directive
British Horse Racing Board v. William Hill
Unauthorized access CFAA
United States v. Morris
United States v. Nosal
International Airport Centers v. Citrin
Harm and standing
Edwards v. First Am. Corp.
Amnesty Int'l USA v. Clapper
Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw
Privacy invasions
Bose v. Interclick
In re Google, Inc. Privacy Policy Litigation
Intermediary liability
Zeran v. AOL
Tiffany v. eBay
Malware
George Ledin, The Growing Harm of Not Teaching Malware
Microsoft Corp. v. Does
Software vulnerabilities
Suzanne Tindal, Suing Software Developers Over Vulnerabilities Is A Bad Move
The T. J. Hooper