LAW Privacy and Free Speech Online
Intellectual Property: Trademark/Trade Secrets Law

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Intellectual Property: Media, Entertainment, Sports
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Item is good for 29 routes, rollover orange dots above to see which ones! LAW 484 Privacy and Free Speech Online Law School Recommended for route(s): [ Litigation ] Intellectual Property: Trademark/Trade Secrets Law Why it is relevant for ... [ Litigation ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Cyberlaw : Cyberlaw cases frequently involve conflicts between privacy and free speech values. This seminar explores the tension between free speech and protecting privacy online, with specific emphasis on the legal rules and social norms around user-initiated communications, social networking and other web 2.0 applications. General course Description: Privacy and free speech values frequently conflict. Protecting one individual's privacy often requires preventing another's speech. The Internet has created significant opportunity for users to express themselves in chatrooms, on the web, and through new social network applications. With this increased expression has come increased disclosures of personal information that may be saved, searched, and republished. Courts are currently grappling with the privacy- speech tension in cases where individuals as opposed to media institutions are the publishers of personal information about themselves and others and where people are publishing information on public networks but intended for limited groups of readers. This seminar explores the tension between protecting privacy and free speech online, with specific emphasis on the legal rules and social norms around user initiated communications and social networking and other web 2.0 applications. Course Style: A Substantive course teaches the law, theory, and policy in a particular area of law |