CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Copyright Term Extension Act, John Perry Barlow

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

Examples of domains covered by cyberspace law: Cyberspace and business - ecommerce, online financials, online gambling, cyber fraud, internet tax issues. Cyberspace and medicine - telemedicine, online prescribing, online pharmacies. Cyberspace and telecommunications fairness - broadband development, throttling and access, educational use of the internet, gender and race online, unequal access to the internet (digital divide) Cyberspace and education - plagiarism, use of computers in schools, content filtering, fair dealing, fair use in education. Free speech issue - freedom of expression, obscenity, pornography, online indecency, protection of children, cultural rights, online defamation. Intellectual property issues: copyright law, patent law, trademark law, gifts and online exchange. Privacy issues - cryptography and privacy protection for online transactions, employment privacy, personal information privacy, data security. Security issues - cybercrime, spamming, cyberstalking and online harassment, terrorism, identity theft, hacking etc. Political rights - access rights, online democracy experiments, evolution of national firewalls.