eCompany Web Guide to Legal Sources

  1.  ACLU White Paper: Big Brother in the Wires
Deals with cryptography and electronic surveillance; makes recommendations for a national encryption policy.
 
  2.  AdultWebLaw
Provides legal information for operators of adult-oriented websites, access to legal forms, and links to Internet law resources.
 
  3.  American Civil Liberties Union: Cyber-Liberties
Background and updates on issues including online privacy, encryption, and cyber-censorship.
 
  4.  Chronicle of Higher Education: Law Schools Can't Meet the Demand for Courses on Internet Issues
"With few case studies to draw on and new issues springing up weekly, professors often teach by the seat of their pants, making up curriculum as they go. Despite such challenges, cyberlaw is becoming one of the hottest new specialties..." (9/29/00)
 
  5.  Cyberlaw Encyclopedia
Reference source for Internet, computer and technology law.
 
  6.  Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers
Online course by Larry Lessig, David Post and Eugene Volokh. Covers copyright, privacy, trademark, free speech, libel, contract law, content regulation (CDA), dispute resolution.
 
  7.  E-Commerce Law Source.Com
Internet vortal for law, e-commerce and rights management. Offers extensive index of Internet law links, Global Monitor for worldwide developments, free mailing lists. Site is searchable.
 
  8.  Economist: Stop Signs on the Web
"The Internet was supposed to be all about freedom. That is why governments want to regulate it. It is far from certain whether freedom, or government control, will win the day." Technology is increasingly becoming a means of regulation. (1/11/01)
 
  9.  Electronic Privacy Information Center
Public interest research center. Established to focus public attention on civil liberties issues, privacy, the First Amendment and constitutional values.
 
  10.  FindLaw: CyberSpace Law Center: Crimes: Wiretap
Pointers to cases, articles, and commentary on wiretap-related laws and issues.
 
  11.  GigaLaw.com
Provides legal information for Internet and technology professionals, Internet entrepreneurs and the lawyers who serve them. Produced exclusively by lawyers and law professors.
 
  12.  Global Cyberlaw Network
The Global Cyberlaw Network (GCLN) is a private, international bar association which is not affiliated with any other organization. Law firms listed by country with contact information.
 
  13.  Internet Law Wire
Continually updated Internet legal news from around the Net, from the University of Pittsburgh Law School.
 
  14.  Internet Patent News
Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics and electronic commerce.
 
  15.  Legal XML
Non-profit organization comprised of volunteer members from private industry, non-profit organizations, government and academia. The mission of Legal XML is to develop open, non-proprietary technical standards for legal documents.
 
  16.  LLRX.com: Ten Key Legal Concerns in E-Commerce Ventures and Contracts
Issues include domain namea, developer contracts, intellectual property, permission, right to future use, "hosting hassles," customers privacy, sales tax, clickthrough contracts, business method patents. (12/1/00)
 
  17.  New York Times: Looking Forward
"Cyberlaw Journal recently asked a panel of legal experts to predict the most significant or interesting developments in Internet law and policy for the year 2001. These are excerpts from their forecasts." (12/28/00) Free registration required.
 
  18.  Perkins Coie LLP Internet Case Digest
An effort to collate U.S. court cases and international cases of especially high interest that address specific issues of Internet-related law.
 
  19.  Pike and Fisher Internet Law and Regulation
Comprehensive information on Internet laws and policy relating to commerce, freedom of speech, privacy, security, criminal liability and more. Free and premium services.
 
  20.  politechbot.com: Here's What Happens to E-Mail and Web Pages After Someone Dies
If you've ever wondered... Three lawyers weigh in. (2/17/01)
 
  21.  SFGate: Rights Advocate Starts Stanford Tech Law Center
"A premier advocate for Internet civil liberties has started a center on technology litigation at Stanford Law School. Lawrence Lessig, who once headed a similar center at Harvard. will direct the new Center for Internet and Society." (1/13/01)
 
  22.  Technology and the Law
Links by subject include hot topics, publications, government resources, organizations, and privacy issues. From the Richmond Law and Technology Association.
 
  23.  Upside Counsel: Know the Laws of Cyberspace
"Knowledge is key in protecting yourself and your business." Overview of: domain names, privacy, metatags, Internet trespass, e-mail marketing, litigation, cybercrime, insurance. (10/31/00)
 
  24.  Work.com: The Inside Corner: Cyberlaw
Interview with Didi Melchior, an Israeli law professor who "owns and manages www.mishpat.net, a site dedicated to cyberlaw. Melchior also writes the Cyberlaw Informer -- a weekly publication about happenings in the field of law and technology." (1/18/01)
 
  25.  WSJ.com: On the Web, No One Knows You're a Dog, or if Your Law License Is Suspended
"If the Web is making it easier than ever to find a lawyer, it is also making it easier to find a troubled one." Premium subscription required. (1/15/01)