Cyberspace Law

        By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Editor (lynch@unt.edu)

        As you can tell by the contents of this issue of Benchmarks, "law" as it relates to the Internet is a major topic of concern for a lot of people. If this is something you are interested in also, you might want to subscribe to CYBERSPACE-LAW, a free E-mail Internet seminar for non-lawyers.

        >p>According to the information posted about the list on NEW-LIST, a mailing list about new mailing lists, one message every couple of days will be sent to subscribers. The messages will be about basic principles of the law of copyright, free speech, libel, privacy, contract and trademark as they apply to the Internet.

        The seminar is aimed at educated laypeople, so they promise no legalese and Latin. The list is run by Larry Lessing, University of Chicago Law School; David Post, Georgetown University Law School; and Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law school.

        To subscribe, send the following message to listproc-request@counsel.com:

        subscribe cyberspace-law yourfirstname yourlastname

        CyberLegal Research

        Another source of information about cyberspace law is the Web site of CyberLegal Research (http://www.eden.com/~case/index.html). This site is described (in the announcement of it's existence to Net-Happenings, a forum for announcing such things) as a "forum for chronicling the evolution of the Law in cyberspace." Not only will you have access to a wide variety of Legal Resources on the Web & Opinion/Commentary from the Editor, but most notably is the Judicial Proclamations section covering "Skirmishes on the Digital Frontier."

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