Recommended Links

Members of the ICPL Advisory Committee have identified these 13 topics and associated links as being of particular current interest:

1. Creating Campus IT Policies (and Campus Policies in General)
2. Intellectual Property Issues (including DMCA and Trademark)
3. Privacy, including FERPA
4. Academic Integrity and Computer-Assisted Cheating
5. The USA/PATRIOT Act
6. Spam: Laws and Policies
7. Computer and Network Security
8. UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act)
9. Free Speech and the First Amendment
10. Domain-Name Issues
11. Identification and Authentication
12. Third-party Liability
13. Forensics; Due Process; Investigating Cybercrime

Creating Campus IT Policies (and Campus Policies in General)

• Hodges Shaw and Pavela: Ten Principles of Civility in Cyberspace
• Hodges Shaw and Worona: Legal Underpinnings for Creating Campus Computer Policy
• Association of College and University Policy Administrators (ACUPA)

Intellectual Property Issues (including DMCA and Trademark)

• University of Texas: Copyright Crash Course
• University of Maryland’s “Copyown” Resource on Copyright Ownership
• Gasaway: When Works Pass into the Public Domain
• Templeton: 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained
• United States Copyright Office
• IUPUI Copyright Management Center
• Copyright Clearance Center
• "Chilling Effects" Clearinghouse: Monitoring the legal climate for Internet Activity
• Salomon: A Primer on Distance Learning and Intellectual Property Issues
• EDUCAUSE's DMCA Resource Page
• Cornell Legal Institute (Copyright, Patent, Trademark)
• Perkins Coie Internet Case Digest (Copyright, Patent, Trademark)

Privacy, including FERPA

• Center for Democracy and Technology (Data Privacy and Government Surveillance)
• American Civil Liberties Union "Cyber-Liberties" Project
• Privacy.net: Analyze Your Internet Privacy
• Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy.org
• The Privacy Foundation
• Computer Privacy Digest
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
• United States Department of Education's Family Policy Compliance Office (the "FERPA Office")
• United States Social Security Administration "Number and Card" Page
• Mitrano: Privacy Policies at a Private University
• Rezmierski et al: Privacy and the Handling of Student Information in Electronic Environments [PDF 339 KB]
• United States Department of Commerce: Commercial Encryption Export Controls
• United States Federal Trade Commission: Privacy Initiatives

Academic Integrity and Computer-Assisted Cheating

• Case Western University’s Online Ethics Center
• North Carolina State University’s Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics
• Plagiarism.org and Turnitin.com
• The Open Directory Project’s listing for Plagiarism

The USA/PATRIOT Act

• United States Department of Justice: Field Guidance on New Authorities That Relate to Computer Crime and Electronic Evidence Enacted in the USA Patriot Act of 2001
• Association of American Universities (AAU): The Search and Seizure of Electronic Information Before and After the USA/PATRIOT Act
• Mary Minow's Chart of "Library Records Post-Patriot Act"

Spam: Laws and Policies

• Indiana University Knowledgebase Entry on Spam
• United States Postal Inspection Service Notice on Chain Letters
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
• David Sorkin’s list of anti-spam legislation

Computer and Network Security

• A National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
• CERT: The Computer Emergency Response Team
• FIRST: The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
• EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Task Force on Computer and Network Security
• Indiana University Security Howto Guide
• Indiana University Selected Security Links
• Project R.U.N.S.A.F.E. at James Madison University
• The SANS Institute

UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act)

• American Library Association: Concerns for Libraries and the Public
• Association of Research Libraries: UCITA Fact Sheet
• Affect: Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions
• UCITA Online
• UCITA Overview from the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws

Free Speech and the First Amendment

• American Civil Liberties Union "Cyber-Liberties" Project
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Center for Democracy and Technology (Speech)
• Hodges Shaw and Worona: The First Amendment in Cyberspace
• First Amendment Cyber-Tribune

Domain-Name Issues

• ICANN and IANA
• United States Department of Commerce: Management of Internet Names and Addresses
• Worona: Protecting Your Good Name in Cyberspace [PDF 38 KB]
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) page on Domain Names

Identification and Authentication

• Internet2 Core Middleware for Authentication

Third-party Liability

• Nolo: When is an ISP Liable?
• Davidson, Podkopacz, and Dechery: The Law Of Cyberspace: Liability Of Information Service Providers
• Deturbide: Liability of Internet Service Providers for Defamation in the US and Britain

Forensics; Due Process; Investigating Cybercrime

• SamSpade.org (variety of Internet lookup tools)
• United States Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
• United States Department of Justice: Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations