The Path of Internet Law: An Annotated Guide to Legal Landmarks

74 Pages Posted: 3 Apr 2011 Last revised: 3 Jan 2013

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Michael L. Rustad

Suffolk University Law School

Diane D'Angelo

Suffolk University Law School

Date Written: 2012

Abstract

The evolution of the Internet has forever changed the legal landscape. The Internet is the world’s largest marketplace, copy machine, and instrumentality for committing crimes, torts, and infringing intellectual property. Justice Holmes’s classic essay on the path of the law drew upon six centuries of case reports and statutes. In less than twenty-five years, Internet law has created new legal dilemmas and challenges in accommodating new information technologies. Part I is a brief timeline of Internet case law and statutory developments for Internet-related intellectual property (IP) law. Part II describes some of the ways in which the Internet is redirecting the path of IP in a globalized information-based economy. Our broader point is that every branch of substantive and procedural law is adapting to the digital world. Part III is the functional equivalent of a GPS for locating the latest U.S. and foreign law resources to help lawyers, policymakers, academics and law students lost in cyberspace.

Keywords: internet law, intellectual property, legal research

Suggested Citation

Rustad, Michael L. and D'Angelo, Diane, The Path of Internet Law: An Annotated Guide to Legal Landmarks (2012). Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 2011, No. 012, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 11-18, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1799578

Michael L. Rustad (Contact Author)

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Diane D'Angelo

Suffolk University Law School ( email )

120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108-4977
United States

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