This document discusses key topics in internet law, including cybersquatting, intellectual property protection, privacy of electronic communications, liability of internet service providers for defamatory statements, and how online retailers track users' browsing activities. It provides learning objectives for each topic, such as defining cybersquatting and the laws that protect against it. The document is from a textbook on the essentials of the legal environment and covers issues that arise specifically due to the internet.

1. ESSENTIALS OF THE LEGAL
ENVIRONMENT TODAY, 5E
ROGER LEROY MILLER
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2. CHAPTER 9
INTERNET LAW, SOCIAL
MEDIA, AND PRIVACY
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3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. What is cybersquatting, and when is
it illegal?
2. What steps have been taken to
protect intellectual property rights in
the digital age?
3. When does the law protect a
person’s electronic communications
from being intercepted or accessed?
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4. LEARNING OBJECTIVES (CONT’D)
4. What law governs whether Internet
service providers are liable for online
defamatory statements made by
users?
5. How do online retailers track their
users’ Web browsing activities?
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5. INTERNET LAW
• Laws specifically address issues that
only arise on the Internet
• Spam
• State regulation of spam
• The Federal CAN-SPAM Act
• Enacted by Congress in 2003
• Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and
Marketing Act
• U.S. Safe Web Act
• Allows FTC to work with foreign agencies
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6. INTERNET LAW
• Domain Names
• Structure of domain names
• Top-level domain (TLD) indicates type of entity operating
the site
• Second-level domain (SLD) chosen by the business or
entity or individual registering the domain name
• Distribution system
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) oversees distribution of domain names
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7. INTERNET LAW
• Cybersquatting
• Anticybersquatting legislation
• Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)
• Cybersquatting is illegal when:
• The name is identical or confusingly similar to the trademark of
another.
• The one registering, trafficking in, or using the domain name has a
“bad faith intent” to profit from that trademark.
• Ongoing problem of cybersquatting
• Typosquatting
• Applicability and sanctions of the ACPA
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8. INTERNET LAW
• Meta Tags
• Trademark Dilution in the Online World
• Licensing
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9. COPYRIGHTS IN DIGITAL
INFORMATION
• Copyright law is most important form
of intellectual property protection on
the Internet.
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA)
• Congress passed in 1998
• Significant protection to owners of
copyrights in digital information
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10. COPYRIGHTS IN DIGITAL
INFORMATION
• MP3 and File-Sharing Technology
• Programmers created software to
compress large data files
• Methods of file-sharing
• Sharing stored music files
• DVDs and file-sharing
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11. SOCIAL MEDIA
• Studies show Internet users spend more
time on social networks than other sites
• Legal Issues
• Criminal investigations
• Administrative agencies
• Employers’ social media policies
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12. SOCIAL MEDIA
• The Electronic Communications
Privacy Act (ECPA)
• Amended federal wiretapping law to
cover electronic forms of communications
• Prohibits the intentional interception and
disclosure of any wire, oral, or electronic
communication
• Exclusions
• Stored communications
• Stored Communications Act (SCA) – part of ECPA
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13. SOCIAL MEDIA
• Protection of Social Media Passwords
• States have enacted legislation to protect
individuals from having to disclose
passwords
• Company-wide Social Media Networks
• Protection of trade secrets
• Other advantages
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14. ONLINE DEFAMATION
• Identifying the Author of Online
Defamation
• Liability of Internet Service Providers
• General rule – Communications Decency
Act (DCA)
• Exceptions
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15. PRIVACY
• Data Collection and Cookies
• Retailers collect information about
consumers to personalize online services
• Internet Companies’ Privacy Policies
• FTC investigates consumer complaints of
privacy violations
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