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Info 205 Information Law and Policy

02:00-4:00 PM | 202 South Hall
Instructor Pam Samuelson

Info 205 - Spring 2008 - Law is one of a number of policies that mediates the tension between free flow and restrictions on the flow of information. This course introduces students to copyright and other forms of legal protection for databases, licensing of information, consumer protection, liability for insecure systems and defective information, privacy, and national and international information policy.

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				Mon 1/28	Overview of the Course
				Mon 2/4	Copyright Protection as Applied to Compilations of Data
				Mon 2/11	Technology and (Mis)appropriation of Data
				Mon 2/18	Presidents Day
				Mon 2/25	Mass Market Licensing of Data Compilations
				Mon 3/3	Consumer Protection and Information Licensing
				Mon 3/10	Liability for Defective Information
				Mon 3/17	Balancing Employer/Employee Interests: Copyright and Patent Default Rules
				Mon 3/24	Spring Break
				Mon 3/31	No Lecture
				Mon 4/7	EU Approach to Information Privacy Protection
				Mon 4/14	US Approach to Information Privacy Protection
				Mon 4/21	Privacy of Electronic Communications
				Mon 4/28	Unsolicited Email as Computer Trespass
				Mon 5/5	Government Mandate to Filter Indecent Content
				Mon 5/12	Net Neutrality