Part I: Introduction

January 24 - Introduction to Seminar, P2P Technologies, and Copyright

Guest speaker: Professor John Chuang, SIMS, UC Berkeley

Required Readings:

• Nelson Minar & Marc Hedlund, Chapter 1: A Network of Peers, Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies (Andy Oram, ed. 2001), available at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/peertopeer/chapter/ch01.html
• Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Digital Dilemma (especially pp. 27-60), and Chapter 2: Music: Intellectual Property's Canary in the Digital Coal Mine, National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age (2000)

Recommended:

• John Perry Barlow, The Economy of Ideas, 2.03 WIRED 84 (March 1994), available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html
• William W. Fisher III, Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment (2004)
• Lydia Pallas Loren, Untangling the Web of Music Copyrights, 53 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 673 (2003)
• H. Balakrishnan, M.F. Kaashoek, D. Karger, R. Morris, I. Stoica, Looking Up Data In Peer to Peer Systems, 46 Communications of the ACM 43, February 2003, available at http://project-iris.net/irisbib/papers/dht:cacm03/paper.pdf
• Congressional Budget Office, Copyright Issues in Digital Media (Aug. 2004), available at http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5738&sequence=0
• Wikipedia entry for "peer-to-peer," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer

January 31 - Social Norms of File Sharing

Required Readings:

• Jessica Litman, Sharing and Stealing, 26 COMM/ENT L.J. (forthcoming 2004), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=472141, pp. 1-25
• Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, Charismatic Code, Social Norms, and the Emergence of Cooperation on the File-Swapping Networks, 89 Va. L. Rev. 505 (2003), excerpts available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitalmedia/strelivutz-clip.htm

Recommended:

• Eytan Adar & Bernardo A. Huberman, Free Riding on Gnutella, First Monday, Oct. 2000, available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/adar/index.html
• Michael W. Carroll, Whose Music Is It Anyway?: How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form of Property, 72 U. Cinn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2004), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=477162
• M. Feldman, C. Papadimitriou, J. Chuang, and I. Stoica, Free-Riding and Whitewashing in Peer-to-Peer Systems, ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS) (Aug. 2004), available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2004/workshop_papers/p35-feldman11.pdf
• Dan Hunter & F. Gregory Lastowka, Amateur-to-Amateur, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2004), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601808
• Raymond Shih Ray Ku, The Creative Destruction of Copyright: Napster and the New Economics of Digital Technology, 69 U. Chi. L. Rev. 263 (2002)
• David L. Lange, Students, Music and the Net: A Comment on Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing, 2003 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 0021 (2003), at http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2003dltr0021.html

Part II: Copyright Industry Efforts to Regulate Development of Infringement-Enabling Technologies

February 7 - The Sony Betamax Case: Setting Liability Rules for Technologies With Substantial Non-infringing Uses

Lecture Slides: PPT (76 kB), PDF, 2/page (116 kB), PDF, 6/page (112 kB)

Required Readings:

• Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984)

Recommended:

• Jonathan Band & Andrew McLaughlin, The Marshall Papers: A Peek Behind the Scenes at the Making of Sony v. Universal, 17 Colum./VLA J. L. & Arts 427 (1993)
• James Lardner, Fast Forward (1987)
• Douglas Lichtman & William Landes, Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement, 16 Harv. J. Law & Tech. 395 (2003)
• Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Fair Use and Market Failure: Sony Revisited, 82 B.U.L. Rev. 975 (2002)

February 14 - Copyright Industry Lawsuits Against Napster And Aimster: Sony Revisited

Lecture Slides: PPT (129 kB), PDF, 2/page (127 kB), PDF, 6/page (123 kB)

Required Readings:

• A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001)
• In re Aimster Litigation, 334 F.3d 643 (7th Cir. 2003)

Recommended:

• Stacey Dogan, Is Napster a VCR? Implications of Sony for Napster and Other Internet Technologies, 52 Hastings L J 939 (2001)
• William W. Fisher III, Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment, Chapter 3: What Went Awry (2004)
• Jane C. Ginsburg, How Copyright Got a Bad Name for Itself, 26 Colum. J. L. & Arts 61 (2002)
• Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, When Good Value Chains Go Bad: The Economics of Indirect Liability for Copyright Enforcement, 52 Hastings L.J. 961 (2001)
• Randall Picker, Copyright As Entry Policy: The Case Against Digital Distribution, 47 Antitrust Bull. 423 (2002)
• UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Bertelsmann AG, 222 F.R.D. 408 (N.D. Cal. 2004)
• Joseph Menn, All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster (2003)

February 28 - MGM v. Grokster: The Sony Standard Challenged

MGM v. Grokster Lecture Slides (1 Mar 2005):
PPT (50 kB), PDF, 2/page (106 kB), PDF, 6/page (103 kB)

Prof. Samuelson's Presentation at the Internet Caucus in Washington, D.C. on 9 Feb 2005:
PPT (40 kB), PDF, 2/page (76 kB), PDF, 6/page (76 kB)

Required Readings:

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 380 F.3d 1154 (9^th Cir. 2004)
• MGM Petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari, available http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/20041008_Grokster_final_petition.pdf

Recommended:

• Fred von Lohmann, Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law after Napster, http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20010227_p2p_copyright_white_paper.html
• Brief Amicus Curiae of 40 Intellectual Property and Technology Law Professors Supporting Affirmance, submitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in MGM v. Grokster, available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/Grokster_Law%20Prof%20brief.pdf
• Brief Amicus Curiae for Intellectual Property Law Professors to the U.S. Supreme Court in Support of Grant for Certiorari, available at http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/20041109_LawProfCert.pdf
• Buma/Sterma v. Kazaa, Amsterdam Court Of Appeal, The Netherlands, Mar. 28, 2002) available at http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/BUMA_v_Kazaa/20020328_kazaa_appeal_judgment.html

Transcript of MGM v. Grokster Oral Arguments: PDF (145 kB)

MGM v. Grokster Supreme Court Briefs on the Merits

• Petitioner's Briefs: (filing deadline 24 January 2005)
• Brief for Motion Picture Studio and Recording Company Petitioners, 21 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/04-480_MPPetitioners_brief.pdf
• Brief for Songwriter and Music Publisher Petitioners, 21 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/04-480_SWPetitioners_brief.pdf
• Respondent's Brief: (filing deadline 01 March 2005)
• Brief For Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_respondents_brief.pdf
• Briefs In Support of Petitioners: (filing deadline 24 January 2005)
• Brief of Video Software Dealers Association as Amicus Curiae Suggesting Reversal, 21 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050121_VSDA_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amicus Curiae The Progress and Freedom Foundation in Support of The Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_PFF_Amicus.pdf
• Brief for The United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_US_Amicus.pdf
• Amicus Curiae Brief of The American Intellectual Property Law Association in Support of Vacatur and Remand, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_AIPLA_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of The Business Software Alliance as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_BSA_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors, Economics Professors, and Treatise Authors in Support of Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_law-econ-profs_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Kids First Coalition, Christian Coalition of America, Concerned Women for America, Enough is Enough, Morality in Media, Inc., National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, National Fraternal Order of Police, National Law Center for Children and Families, and We Care America as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/20050124_kidsfirst_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Kenneth J. Arrow, Ian Ayres, Gary Becker, William M. Landes, Steven Levitt, Douglas Lichtman, Kevin Murphy, Randal Picker, Andrew Rosenfield, and Steven Shavell in Support of Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_law-econ-2_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Defenders of Property Rights as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_Prop_Def_amicus.pdf
• Brief Amici Curiae of Utah, North Carolina, Virginia, Rhode Island, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and The Territory Of Guam in Support of Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_StatesAG_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, Professional Photographers of America, Inc., Association of American Publishers, Inc., Association of American University Presses, Producers Guild of America, Inc., Graphic Artists Guild, Entertainment Software Association, The Authors Guild, Inc., and The Independent Film and Television Alliance in Support of Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_copyright_owners_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amicus Curiae Napster, LLC, Musicnet, Inc., Cinemanow, Inc., Sea Blue Media, LLC, d/b/a Cdigix, Movielink, LLC, Tennessee Pacific Group, LLC d/b/a Pass Along Networks, WURLD Media, Inc., and Virtual Music Stores Ltd. in Support of Petitioners, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_napster_etc_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae International Rights Owners Supporting Petitioners, 25 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050125_intl_rights_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, American Federation of Television and Radio Artisits, Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, Inc., and Writers Guild of America, West as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, 25 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050125_AFM_AFTRA_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Professors Peter S. Menell, David Nimmer, Robert P. Merges, and Justin Hughes, as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, 25 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050125_Menell_Amicus.pdf
• Brief Of Amici Curiae National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Recording Artists' Coalition, The Country Music Association, Inc., The Gospel Music Association, The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, Jazz Alliance International, Inc, The Rhythm & Blues Foundation, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh & Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles); Jimmy Buffett, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds; Mickey Hart And Bill Kreutzman (of The Grateful Dead); "Mya" Harrison, Gavin Rossdale, Sheryl Crow; Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn (Brooks & Dunn); Bonnie Raitt; Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robison (the Dixie Chicks); Stevie Nicks, Phil Vassar, Patty Loveless, Reba Mcentire, Avril Lavigne, Dido, Denyce Graves, Tom Jones, Jesse Colin Young, Sarah Mclachlan, Martina Mcbride, Sam Moore (of Sam and Dave); Joe Terry and David White (of Danny And The Juniors); Billy Preston, Boz Scaggs, Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Brian Wilson, Kenny Rogers, Tom Waits; Tyler Stewart, Jim Creeggan, Steven Page, Ed Robertson and Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies); Deryck Whibley, Dave Baksh, Cone Mccaslin and Steve Jocz (Sum 41); Brandon Hargest, Brittany Hargest, Chris Fedun and Lesley Moore (Jump 5); Bethany Dillon, Nichole Nordeman, and Michael W. Smith in Support of Petitioners, 25 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050125_NARAS_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amicus Curiae National Association Of Recording Merchandisers in Support of Petitioners, 25 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050125_NARM_Amicus.pdf
• Brief Amicus Curiae of Macrovision Corporation in Support of Petitioners, 25 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050125_macrovision_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Broadcast Music, Inc., Association of Independent Music Publishers, Church Music Publishers Association, Nashville Songwriters Association International, and The Songwriters Guild of America as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, 26 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050126_ASCAP_Amicus.pdf
• Brief Amicus Curiae of Americans for Tax Reform in Support of Petitioners, 26 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050126_AfTR_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of the National Association of Broadcasters as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners, 29 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050129_NAB_Amicus.pdf
• Briefs In Support of Neither Party: (filing deadline 24 January 2005)
• Brief of IEEE-USA as Amicus Curiae in Support of Neither Party, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_IEEE_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of The Digital Media Association, Netcoalition, The Center For Democracy and Technology, and The Information Technology Association of America as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_DIMA_Amicus.pdf
• Brief Amici Curiae of United States Senator Patrick Leahy and United States Senator Orrin G. Hatch in Support of Neither Party, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_Leahy-Hatch_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Professor Lee A. Hollaar as Amicus Curiae in Support of Neither Party, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_Hollaar_Amicus.pdf
• Brief Amici Curiae of Audible Magic Corporation, Digimarc Corporation and Gracenote in Support of Neither Party, 24 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050124_filtering_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Snocap, Inc. in Support of Neither Party, 25 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050125_SNOCAP_Amicus.pdf
• Brief of Amicus Curiae Bridgemar Services, Ltd. d/b/a Imesh.com In Support of Neither Party, 25 January 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050125_iMesh_Amicus.pdf
• Briefs In Support of Affirmance: (filing deadline 01 March 2005)
• Brief Amici Curiae of Computer Science Professors Harold Abelson, Thomas Anderson, Andrew W. Appel, Steven M. Bellovin, Dan Boneh, David Clark, David J. Farber, Joan Feigenbaum, Edward W. Felten, Robert Harper, M. Frans Kaashoek, Brian Kernighan, Jennifer Rexford, John C. Reynolds, Aviel D. Rubin, Eugene H. Spafford And David S. Touretzky Suggesting Affirmance Of The Judgment, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_cs_profs.pdf
• Brief for Amicus Curiae National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys (NASCAT) in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_nascat.pdf
• Brief of The National Venture Capital Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_nvca.pdf
• Brief for Creative Commons as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_cc.pdf
• Amicus Brief of Malla Pollack and Other Law Professors Supporting Grokster, Ltd., et al., 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_mpollack.pdf
• Brief of Professors Edward Lee, Peter Shane, and Peter Swire as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_law_profs.pdf
• Brief Amici Curiae of Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_oberholzer_strumpf.pdf
• Brief of Intel Corporation as Amicus Curiae Supporting Affirmance, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_intel.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Internet Law Faculty in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_internet_law_profs.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae The Consumer Electronics Association, The Computer & Communications Industry Association, and The Home Recording Rights Coalition in Support of Affirmance, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_cea_ccia_hrrc.pdf
• Brief of Internet Amici: Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, United States Telecom Association, Us Internet Industry Association, At&t Corp., Bellsouth Corporation, Mci, Inc., Savvis Communications Corporation, SBC Internet Services , Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Verizon Communications Inc. in Support of Affirmance, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_internet_industry.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors in Support of Respondents (Glynn Lunney), 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_lunney.pdf
• Brief Amici Curiae of Innovation Scholars and Economists in Support of Affirmance, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_innovation.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Sixty Intellectual Property and Technology Law Professors and The United States Public Policy Committee of The Association for Computing Machinery in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_tech_law_profs_usacm.pdf
• Brief of The Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Free Press and Public Knowledge as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_CFA-CU-FP-PK.pdf
• Brief Amici Curiae of the Free Software Foundation and New Yorkers for Fair Use in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_fsf_nyfu.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Sovereign Artists on Behalf of Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson (Heart); The Jun Group; Rap Station on Behalf of Chuck D.; Janis Ian; Brian Eno; Sananda Maitreya (Formerly Known as Terence Trent D'arby); Stephan Smith; Michael Franti; Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky); John Perry Barlow; Colin Mutchler; Austin Willacy; Samantha Stollenwerck; John Holowach; Josh Fix; Colm O'Riain; Jim Brunberg; Christian Marcelli; Vanessa Lowe; and Mark Hayes, John Mccourt and Kenten Hall (Ist) In Support Of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_artists.pdf
• Brief of Media Studies Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_media_profs.pdf
• Brief of Amicus Curiae Charles Nesson in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_nesson.pdf
• Brief of Amicus Curiae Altnet, Inc. in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_altnet.pdf
• Brief of Amicus Curiae Sharman Networks Limited in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_sharman.pdf
• Brief of Amicus Curiae Distributed Computing Industry Association in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_dist_computing.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae The American Conservative Union and The National Taxpayers Union in Support of Affirmance, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_acu_ntu.pdf
• Brief of the American Civil Liberties Union, The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, The American Library Association, The Association of Research Libraries, The American Association of Law Libraries, The Medical Library Association, The Special Libraries Association, The Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_aclu.pdf
• Brief of Amici Curiae Emerging Technology Companies in Support of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/20050301_emerging_tech.pdf
• Brief Of Amicus Curiae Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund In Support Of Respondents, 01 March 2005, available at: http://pam-p2p.notlong.com/grokster/grokster/20050301_eagle.pdf
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March 7 - Legislative Proposals to Change Rules for Technology Developer Liability for Copyright Infringements By Users

INDUCE Act Lecture Slides (7 March 2005):
PPT (44 kB), PDF, 2/page (95 kB), PDF, 6/page (92 kB)

Required Readings:

• Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act of 2004, S. 2560, 108^th Cong., 2d Sess. (2004)
• Copyright Office Alternative Draft of S. 2560, available at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/S2560.pdf
• Statement of the Honorable Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on S. 2560, the Intentional Inducement of Copyright Infringements Act of 2004, July 22, 2004, available at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat072204.html

Recommended:

• Michael Grebbe, Toe-to-Toe with Peer to Peer, WIRED, available at http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65414,00.html
• Tim Wu, When Code Isn't Law, 89 Va. L. Rev. 679 (2003)
• Mark A. Lemley & R. Anthony Reese, Reducing Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation, 56 Stan. L. Rev. 1345 (2004), available at http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/treese/publist.html
• October 6, 2004 Letter to Senate Judiciary about S. 2560, available at http://www.eff.org/IP/induce/20041006_FinalLetterHatch.pdf
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, Prelude to a Complaint, available at http://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.txt
• California Senate Bill 96, An act to add Section 653.15 to the Penal Code, relating to crime (a/k/a The California version of INDUCE), as introduced, January 14, 2004, available at http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_96_bill_20050114_introduced.html
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Part III: Legal Challenges to File Sharing

March 14 - Obtaining User Identity Information From Internet Service Providers

Required Readings:

• RIAA v. Verizon Internet Services, 351 F.3d 1229 (D.C. Cir. 2003)
• Katie Dean, One File Swapper, One Lawsuit, Wired News (March 8, 2004), available at http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62576,00.html
• Elektra Ent. Group, Inc. v. Does 1-6 (E.D. Pa. 2004), available at http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/RIAA_v_ThePeople/20041012_Order_Granting_Request.pdf
• Nathaniel S. Good & Aaron Krekelberg, Usability and Privacy: A Study of KaZaa Peer to Peer File-Sharing, HP Tech Report (2004), available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~ngood/#publications

Recommended:

• BMG Canada v. Doe, 2004 FC 488 (March 31, 2004), available at http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fct/2004/2004fc488.shtml
• Alice Kao, RIAA v. Verizon: Applying the Subpoena Provision of the DMCA, 19 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 405 (2004)
• Brief Amicus Curiae of Berkman Professors Reviewing Issues of Fact and Law, submitted to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts in Capitol Records, Inc. v. Alaujan, available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/capitol
• Chapter 4, Individual Behavior, Private Use, and Fair Use and the System for Copyright, National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age (2000)
• California Senate Bill 1506, an act to add and repeal Section 653aa of the Penal Code relating to Internet piracy, signed by Governor, September 21, 2004, available (as chaptered) at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/sb_1506_bill_20040921_chaptered.html
• Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. v. John Does 1-40, 326 F. Supp. 2d 556 (SDNY 2004)
• Damien Cave, File Sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Salon.com (2002), available at http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/index.html

March 28 - RIAA v. File Sharers

Required Readings:

• Peter Yu, P2P and the Future of Private Copying, Mich. St. U. Law School, Legal Studies Research Paper Series, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=578568, pp. 5-17
• Fred von Lohmann, Is Suing Your Customers a Good Idea?, Law.com (Oct. 22, 2004), available at http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1095434496352
• Mark A. Lemley & R. Anthony Reese, Reducing Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation, 56 Stan. L. Rev. 1345 (2004), Part III, available at http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/treese/publist.html (pp. 1395-1434)

Recommended:

• Charles Lee Mudd, Jr. website on RIAA lawsuits, http://www.muddlawoffices.com/laws/RIAA/RIAA.htm
• EFF's webpages on RIAA lawsuits against individual filesharers, http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/riaa-v-thepeople.php
• IFPI Press Release, Recording Industry Starts Legal Actions Against Illegal File Sharing Internationally, available at http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20040330.html
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April 4 - Other Measures Aimed at Deterring File-sharing of Copyrighted Works

Guest Speaker: Postdoctoral Scholar Nicolas Christin, SIMS, UC Berkeley

Nicolas Chirstin's slides, "Pollution and Poisoning in Peer-to-Peer Networks": PPT (1.6 MB).

Required Readings:

• HR 4077, The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act (PDEA) of 2004, To enhance criminal enforcement of the copyright laws, to educate the public about application of the copyright law to the Internet, and for other purposes, 108^th Cong., 2d Sess. (2004) (version in reader is as passed by the House)
• S 2237, The Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act (PIRATE Act) of 2004, To amend chapter 5 of title 17, United States Code, to authorize civil copyright enforcement by the Attorney General, and for other purposes., 108^th Cong., 2d Sess. (2004) (version in reader is as passed by the Senate)
• Appendix E: Copyright Education, National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age (2000)
• Declan McCullagh, Could Hollywood Hack Your PC?, CNET News.com (2002), http://news.com.com/2102-1023-945923.html
• Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act, H.R. 5211, 107^th Cong., 2d Sess. (2002)

Recommended:

• Rep. Howard Berman, The Truth About the Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act: Why Copyright Owner Self-Help Must Be Part of the P2P Piracy Solution, available at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20021001_berman.html
• Jian Liang, Rakesh Kumar, Yongjian Xi and Keith W. Ross, Pollution in P2P File Sharing, Working paper, September 2004, available at http://cis.poly.edu/~ross/papers/pollution.pdf
• Cockoo's Egg Project, http://www.hand-2-mouth.com/cuckooegg/
• John Borland, Teamwork Brings P2P Spying App Closer, CNET News, Sept. 10, 2003, available at http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5074429.html
• U.S. Department of Justice, Report of the Department of Justice's Task Force on Intellectual Property (Oct. 2004), available at http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/IPTaskForceReport.pdf
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Part IV: Other Considerations and Strategies for Dealing with the P2P Phenomenon

April 11 - Assessing the Effects of File-Sharing on Record Sales and of RIAA Lawsuits on Extent of File-Sharing

Required Readings:

• Felix Oberholzer and Koleman Strumpf, The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis, Working paper, March 2004, http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf
• Pew Internet & American Life Project, Sharp Decline in Music File Swappers: Data Memo From PIP and ComScore Media Matrix (2004), available at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_File_Swapping_Memo_0104.pdf

Recommended:

• Thomas Karagiannis, Andre Broido, Nevil Brownlee, kc claffy & Michalis Faloutsos, Is P2P dying or just hiding?, Globecom 2004, available at http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2004/p2p-dying/
• Andrew Parker, The True Picture of Peer-to-Peer Filesharing, available at http://www.cachelogic.com/press/CacheLogic_Press_and_Analyst_Presentation_July2004.pdf
• Stan Liebowitz, Policing Pirates in the Networked Age, Cato Institute (2002), http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html
• Stan Liebowitz, Will MP3 Downloads Annihilate the Record Industry? The Evidence So Far (June 2003), online at http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/intprop/records.pdf
• Rafael Rob & Joel Waldfogel, Piracy on the High C's: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students, preliminary draft, Sept. 30, 2004, available at http://www.law.upenn.edu/polk/dropbox/waldfogel.pdf
• Hal Varian, Buying, Sharing, and Renting Information Goods, available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/sharing.pdf
• Hal Varian, The Social Cost of Sharing, Proceedings of Workshop on the Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/p2pecon/papers/s3-varian.pdf
• Alejandro Zentner, Measuring the Effect of Music Downloads on Music Purchases, paper presented at University of Pennsylvania Law School, available at http://www.law.upenn.edu/polk/dropbox/zertner.pdf
• Norbert J. Michel, The Impact of the Digital Age on the Music Industry: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Phd Thesis; University of New Orleans, (2004), available at http://etd-db.uno.edu/theses/available/etd-11212003-100808/
• Eric Boorstin, Music Sales in the Age of File Sharing, Senior Thesis; Princeton University, (2004), available at http://www.princeton.edu/~eboorsti/thesis/
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April 18 - Digital Rights Management Technologies As an Option

Required Readings:

• Chapter 5, Protecting Digital Intellectual Property: Means and Measures, National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age (2000) at pp. 153-73
• Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman, The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution, Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (2002), available at http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc
• John A. Halderman, Evaluating New Copy-Prevention Techniques for Audio CDs, Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (2002), available at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jhalderm/papers/drm2002.pdf

Recommended:

• Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, S. 2048, 107^th Cong., 2d Sess. (2002)
• Stefan Bechtold, Value Centered Design of Digital Rights Management, available at http://indicare.berlecon.de/tiki-print_article.php?articleId=39
• Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., The Death of Copyright: Digital Technologies, Private Copying, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 87 Va. L. Rev. 813 (2001)
• Committee for Economic Development, Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property (2004), available at http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_dcc.pdf
• Rachna Dhamija and Frederik Wallenberg, A Framework for Evaluating Digital Rights Management Proposals, available at http://sims.berkeley.edu/~fredrik/research/papers/EvaluatingDRM.html
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April 25 - Compulsory Licensing As an Option

Required Readings:

• Neil Weinstock Netanel, Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, 17 Harvard J. Law & Tech. 1 (2003), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=468180
• Robert P. Merges, Compulsory Licensing vs. the Three "Golden Oldies" Property, Contract Rights and Markets, CATO Institute Policy Analysis No 508 (Jan. 15, 2004), available at http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa508.pdf

Recommended:

• Electronic Frontier Foundation, A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing (2004), available at http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.pdf
• William W. Fisher, Chapter 6, "An Alternative Compensation System," Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment (2004), chapter available at http://www.tfisher.org/
• Daniel Gervais, The Price of Social Norms: Towards a Licensing Regime for File-Sharing, 12 J. Intell. Prop. Law (forthcoming 2005), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=525083
• Jessica Litman, Sharing and Stealing, 26 COMM/ENT L.J. (forthcoming 2004), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=472141, pp. 26-42
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May 2 - New Business Models as an Option

Guest Speaker: Professor Hal Varian, SIMS, UC Berkeley

Required Readings:

• Esther Dyson, Intellectual Value, 3.07 WIRED 136 (July 1995), available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/dyson.html
• Chapter 5, Protecting Digital Intellectual Property: Means and Measures, National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age (2000) at 177-185
• Alec Hanley Bemis, A Small New Future, LA Weekly, Sept. 24-30 2004, available at http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/44/features-bemis.php

Recommended:

• Chris Anderson, The Long Tail, 12.10 WIRED 170 (Oct. 2004), available at http://wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
• Jon Healey, Sony BMG, Grokster Join Forces, LA Times, October 29, 2004, available at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-music29oct29,0,3313556.story?coll=la-home-business
• John Kelsey & Bruce Schneier, The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights, First Monday, June 7, 1999, available at http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_6/kelsey/index.html
• G. Prem Premkumar, Alternative Distribution Strategies for Digital Music, 46 Comm. ACM 89 (Sept. 2003)
• Content and Control: Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries, The Digital Media Project of The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, January 7, 2005, available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/content_and_control
• Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World (and International Supplement), Gartner | G2 and The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, January 2005, available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wp2005 and http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wpsupplement2005
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May 9 - International Considerations Pertaining to National Efforts to Regulate P2P File-Sharing and File-Sharing Technologies

Required Readings:

• Salil Mehra, Software as Crime: Japan, the United States and Contributory Copyright Infringement, forthcoming 79 Tul. L. Rev. (2004), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=600622
• Pamela Samuelson, Intellectual Property Arbitrage: How Foreign Rules Can Affect Domestic Protections, 71 U Chi L Rev 223 (2004)

Recommended:

• Paul Edward Geller, Conflicts of Laws in Copyright Cases: Infringement and Ownership Issues, 51 J. Copyr. Soc'y 315 (2004), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=602901
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 243 F. Supp.2d 1073 (C.D. Cal. 2003), aff'd, 2004 US App. LEXIS 17471 (9^th Cir. 2004) (US courts can exercise jurisdiction over non-US-based maker of KaZaa)
• Kamiel J. Koelman, P2P Music Distribution: A Burden or A Blessing?, available at http://pubs.cli.vu/pub123.php
• Daniel J. Gervais, Transmissions of Music on the Internet: An Analysis of the Copyright Laws of Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 34 Vand. J. Transn'l L. 1363 (2001)
• Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World (and International Supplement), Gartner | G2 and The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, January 2005, available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wp2005 and http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/wpsupplement2005
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