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In
need of a paper topic? These sites present current news about the media
and the law. Check these daily because the content changes.
ADLAW:
This a great source of legal information for advertising and marketing
researchers.
AEJMC
law paper abstracts: From the Association for Educators in Journalism
& Mass Communication, this page lists accepted paper abstracts for
AEJ's law division, papers that were presented at the annual convention.
Scroll down to "Law Division." There are also abstracts available
for previous AEJMC conventions.
Citizen
Action Project: Provides researchers with direct access to state laws,
audits, state freedom of information experts and access laws, among many
other things. Information covers all 50 states, so an excellent resource
for anyone doing a project on one or more states.
Citizen Media Law Project : Legal Resources for citizen media, from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Cornell
Law School: A full service site with links to news, cases, legal topics
by category.
Copybites
copyright blog
Electronic
Frontier Foundation: Based in San Francisco, EFF is a
donor-supported membership organization that lobbies for basic rights
online and is an advocate for free expression in the digital age. There
is always plenty of material here for those interested in Internet law.
EPIC:
EPIC stands for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. It is a public
interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994
to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect
privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. If you're interested
in privacy issues on the Internet, this should be your first stop.
Free
Expression Policy Project: Founded in 2000, FEPP provides research
and advocacy on free speech, copyright, and media democracy issues. In
May 2004, FEPP became part of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center
for Justice at NYU School of Law. Subheads include Art Censorship, Censorship
History, Censorship of Youth, Internet, Copyright, Media Policy, Political
Speech, Sex and Censorship, Violence in the Media.
The
Freedom Forum: The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan, international foundation
dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. This
link to the Freedom Forum First Amendment page keeps an eye on free speech
issues around the globe.
IPTAblog,
about the relationship between law, communication, technology and the
creative arts, by Andrew Raff
JDSupra, a relatively new source for all sorts of legal documentation, cases, briefs and the like. It's the "WebMD" of the legal profession. And it's free!
Jim
Romenesko's Media News: This Poynter Institute site is updated daily
with news from around the country about the media. There are often good
gossipy tidbits in here that can lead to a media law paper.
Law.com:
Think of this as a daily news Web site for practicing lawyers. You can
search for topics by legal area and sign up for various e-mail lists.
Media Law Center: The MLRC – formerly the Libel Defense Resource Center – is a non-profit information clearinghouse originally organized by a number of media organizations to monitor developments and promote First Amendment rights in the libel, privacy and related legal fields. The "Hot Topics" section is especially useful.
New
York Times Technology News: This link to The New York Times Technology
page may help those who are interested in Internet law topics. Look for
Carl Kaplan's column on cyberlaw.
Politechbot:
Politech is the moderated mailing list of politics and technology run
by Declan McCullagh, a cyber muckraker for WIRED magazine. Topics include
privacy, free speech, the role of government and corporations, antitrust,
and more. This is another good place for information on Internet law topics.
Reporters
Committee For Freedom of the Press: The Committee is a major national -- and
international -- resource in free speech issues, disseminating information
in a variety of forms, including a quarterly legal review, a bi-weekly
newsletter, a 24-hour hotline, and various handbooks on media law issues.
Academicians, state and federal agencies, and Congress regularly call
on the Committee for advice and expertise, and it has become the leading
advocate for reporters' interests in cyberspace.
Tully Center for Free Speech >> Free Speech Resources: The Center's mission is to "educate university students and the public about the important value of free speech." At Syracuse University.
University of Iowa Library's Communication & Media Law Resources: It is just what it is called, and the page has an excellent search function by topic at the bottom.
You Are Being Watched: Spotlights the high costs of camera surveillance systems, both in terms of money and civil liberties. Do we want a society where we live under an ever-watchful video eye?
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Once you think you have a topic,
this is a good place to begin investigating what others have written about
your topic. This research will comprise the bulk of your literature review.
AEJMC
Convention Papers: This link will take you to an online database of
papers presented at the annual national AEJMC conference. Be warned that
the search is slow, but pretty thorough.
Journalism
and Mass Communication Quarterly: This journal is NOT online, but
a table of contents for each issue can found at this site. Then you'll
have to dig up the journal in the library.
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Links to government Web sites
that may assist you in your research.
U.S.
Supreme Court: This is a link to the U.S. Supreme Court's official
Web site, which contains opinions, links to oral arguments and other information
about the court. Be sure to check out the Court's
media center, where you'll find podcasts of oral arguments, among
other cool artifacts.
Thomas:
Thomas is a complete guide to U.S. Congressional activity. Here, you'll
find the text of laws, bills and hearings. For a complete list of what
Thomas offers, click
here.
FirstGov:
This is the "yahoo" guide to the U.S. government on the Web.
The site was launched in September 2000 as the only official U.S. Government
portal to 30 million pages of government information, services, and online
transactions.
The
Federal Communications Commission: The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible
to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934
and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications
by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction
covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions.
This site offers links to regulations, news, complaint forms, bureaus
within the FCC and licensing information.
The
Federal Trade Commission: The Federal Trade Commission enforces a
variety of federal antitrust and consumer protection laws. This site offers
links to regulations, news, actions and opinions, plus much more.
The
U.S. Copyright Office: The Copyright Office advises Congress on anticipated
changes in U.S. copyright law; analyzes and assists in the drafting of
copyright legislation and legislative reports and provides and undertakes
studies for Congress; offers advice to Congress on compliance with international
agreements and is also where claims to copyright are registered.
This site has links to copyright law, international copyright treaties,
general information and copyright studies.
Library
of Congress: Here's where you can search the U.S. Library of Congress
database on the Web. The Library of Congress Online Catalog
contains over 12 million bibliographic records representing books, serials,
computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings,
and visual materials from the Library's collections.
U.S.
Constitution: This is a link to Cornell University page that has posted
the U.S. Constitution on the Web.
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Look
Up Cases
FindLaw:
This is a complete Web resource for cases, legal news, legal bulletin
boards and legal help. Many cases can be found here.
LEXISOne:
This link will let you search for cases on the LEXIS database from any
Web connection.
U.S.
Supreme Court: This is a link to the U.S. Supreme Court's official
Web site, which contains opinions, links to oral arguments and other information
about the court.
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Online research sources
- Cases,
Statutes and Regs
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A list of links to online sources of cases, statutes
and regulations compiled by Marshall K. Dyer, esq, editor of Netwatchers
Cyberzine
- Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
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"CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and
others interested in the impact of computer technology on society.
As technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policymakers
with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations
of computer technology. As concerned citizens, we direct public attention
to critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how
those choices affect society."
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- CSPAN's Supreme Court/Judiciary Resource Page
Includes links to all of the circuits.
Cyberlaw
Encyclopedia-
Actually a cyberlaw portal compiled by Canadian lawyer Alan Gahtan
who specializes in information technology and electronic commerce,
this site is organized by issue and links then point to articles etc.
- Cyber
Law Journal - New York Times
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You must register --"free" you exchange personal information
for access-- to read this page."Each Friday, Cyber Law Journal
reflects on the legal issues raised by the Internet, including copyrights
and trademarks, privacy, freedom of expression and restrictions on
pornography and other content."
- CyberLaw
and CyberLex
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This site contains the CyberLex and CyberLaw newsletters, sources
for information and pointers to materials on law and computers.
- Cyberspace
Law Center
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Categories include: Commerce, Privacy, CyberCrimes, Freedom of Expression,
General Legal Resources, and Intellectual Property.
- Electronic
Frontier Foundation
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A non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest
to protect privacy, free expression, and access to online resources
and information.
- Ethics
and Law on the Electronic Frontier
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This is the home page for a course offered at MIT during the 1994
and 1995 fall semesters. The course deals with the following topics:
Computer Crime - Information and Intellectual Property - Encryption
and National Security - Privacy Implications of Computer Networks
- Computer Communications and Freedom of Expression
- Federal
Communications Law Journal
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The Federal Communications Law Journal is the official journal of
the Federal Communications Bar Association and is co-published by
the Association and the Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington.
- Five
Reasons for Lawyers and Law Firms to be on the Internet
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A hypertextual presentation by Peter Martin of Cornell, prepared
for a New York City Bar Association workshop, held in April of 1994.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/papers/5reasons.html
- Internet
Library of Law and Court Decisions
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"Our Internet Law Library features extensive summaries of court
decisions shaping the law of the web; providing facts, analysis and
pertinent quotes from cases of interest to those involved in New Media
addressing copyright, trademark, dilution and other intellectual property
issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, meta tags, clip-art, defamation,
domain name, e-mail, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements,
shrink-wrap licenses, spamming and other subjects indexed below. To
paraphrase Jack Webb, "just the law ma'am, and nothing but the
law."
- Journal
of Information, Law and Technology
Journal
of Online Law
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The Journal of Online Law ("JOL") is an electronic publication
of scholarly essays about law and online communications-law and cyberspace.
The first issue was released early in June, 1995.
- Jurist:
The Law Professor's Network
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A rich site that features daily news, academic articles on first
amendment, intellectual property and other topics, an excellent list
of resources in their "Reference Desk," the "Resource
Pages" connects you to Web sites by law professors organized
by practice area and much more. A good candidate for your bookmarks
file.
- Landmark Cases (a library of landmark U.S. Supreme Court case documents, and more)
- UCLA
Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
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"The area of law known as Cyberspace Law (or "Cyberlaw")
typically encompasses all cases, statutes, and constitutional provisions
that impact persons and institutions when they go "online"
and enter cyberspace. As disputes arise and the area of law evolves,
six distinct components have emerged: Jurisdiction and Related Issues,
Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Safety, and
Equity."
- U.S. Federal Judiciary
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