Internet and Computer Law

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Do we need to reconsider how the law treats social norms and customs?  This is a perennial topic in legal scholarship, but it seems to have new urgency in light of how quickly the Internet and other technologies facilitate the adoption of new social practices.  For example, the availability of social media like YouTube have fostered the widespread use of copyrighted material to create amateur works.  Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace seem to have spawned new norms about semi-public sharing of personal information.  New practices are also facilitated by businesses—for example, people appear willing to surrender a great deal of private information to businesses despite their stated preferences, the warnings of privacy activists, and the concerns of many scholars.  This panel will consider whether and how intellectual property law, privacy law, contract law and other law should respond to relatively new norms and customs.

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