E-Commerce Syllabus

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