Public Policy 190/290: Cyberlife (3 units) Office hours
Suzanne Scotchmer
and Stephen Maurer Scotchmer Monday 3-4, in 203 GSPP,
Lectures GSPP Room 105,
Thurs
There will be nine short homework assignments, a book report,
(possibly) a short class presentation, a midterm and final. You are expected to
attend class having read the materials, and to contribute to the discussion. It
is easiest to get the books from Amazon,
Cody’s, Border’s, Barnes and Noble, or the publisher, such as National Academy of Sciences Press. You might
want to buy many of the books listed, but in particular,
Weaving the Web , Harpers Business, 2000, by Time Berners-Lee
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books, 1999, by Larry Lessig
Innovation and Incentives, MIT Press, 2004, Suzanne Scotchmer
Homework Assignments: Send a digital copy to the instructor, and also turn in a hard copy. They should be on time. Homeworks are mostly to guide your reading, and will not be returned. They will be reflected in the exams. We will “sample” them before assigning your grade. They will count about 10%.
Book report: Choose a book or (for graduate students) two research papers related to internet issues, and write a review. Due in 13th week.
introduction,
a short history of information technology and the internet
WeekS 1,2
Required: Berners-Lee, T., Weaving the Web, HarperCollins
(1999), Chs. 1-9
or find
the same material in Gillies and Cailliau, How the Web
was Born, Oxford Univ. Press (2000)
Required:
How Robust is the
Internet?, Nature, 17 July 2000
“Souped-up Search
Engines”, Nature, 11 May 2000
“Home Computers and
Internet Use in the U.S., August 2000”, U.S. Census Bureau
“Accessibility of Information
on the Web”, Lawrence and Giles, Nature, 8 July 1999, pp107+
Recommended, two
Saturday-night reads on the history of computing, also good for book reports:
Eniac, Victorian Internet
Recommended Video
(largely for fun):
At end of first three
classes, three parts of the PBS special Triumph
of the Nerds
economics of intellectual property and information
goods
Week
3,4
Homework 2: Due Monday Feb 17 by email (give me a hardcopy in
the following Thursday's class)
Required:
Required: Digital
Economy 2000, Department of Commerce
Recommended: Producing Knowledge, S. M. Maurer and S. Scotchmer. 2004. In Libecap, G., ed., Intellectual Property and
Entrepreneurship: Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and
Growth, Vol 15, pp. 1-31. The Netherlands: JAI
Press (Elsevier).
Recommended: Chapter 8, Digital Dealing by Robert Hall (Norton, 2001).
Recommended: Envisioning
Copyright Law’s Digital Future, Peter Menell, New
York Law Review
Recommended: Digital Dilemma, National
Academy of Sciences Press (1999), Chapter 3 (pp 96-106),
Recommended: Paul Goldstein, Copyright’s
Highway: from Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Hill and Wang 1994
PROTECTING AND
COMMERCIALIZING Data
week 5
Homework 3: due March 3 MONDAY
Required: Maurer, et al, “Science’s Neglected Legacy”, Nature 11 May 2000, p117.
Maurer and Scotchmer, “Database
Protection: Is it Broken and Should we Fix it?”, Science
May 16, 1999.
“The Writing
is on the Web for Science Journals in Print”, D. Butler, Nature 397, 21
Jan 1999 (to be
distributed in class)
Code, Ch. 1,2,14
Recommended: (You needn’t absorb the legal details; read
lightly for facts and basic legal principles)
Cases: REGISTER.COM, INC. v. VERIO and eBay v. Bidder’s Edge
“The
eBay v.Bidder's Edge decision, the Verio v. Register.com decision,” by Maureen O'Rourke, 16
Berkeley Technology Law Journal
Dan
Burk, “The Trouble with Trespass”,
4 J. of Small and Emerging Bus. Law, 27
“Across
Two Worlds: Database Protection in North America and Europe”, Stephen Maurer, Intellectual
Property and Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Jonathan
Putnam, ed, Industry Canada, forthcoming 2002.
The economics of
interoperability and Standards
week 6
Homework 4: (network economics) due March 10 MONDAY
Required: Ch 10 (Networks and Network Externalities) of Innovation and Incentives (Scotchmer).
Journal of Economic Perspectives 4(8), 1994, pp93-150: Katz & Shapiro, Besen and Farrell, Liebowitz & Margolis
Recommended
(for a sample of modeling techniques):
Joseph Farrell and Michael Katz, The Effects of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law on
Compatibility and Innovation, 43 Antitrust Bulletin 609, 1998
Jeffrey Church and Neil
Gandal, Integration, Complementary Products and
Variety, 1 JEMS 25, 1992.
Recommended: “The Economics and Law of
Reverse Engineering”, P. Samuelson and S. Scotchmer,
Section IV.
Information
Rules by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian
Overview of
antitrust law, discussion of 1970’s IBM and AT&T cases as An intro to
current antitrust issues
Week 7:
Homework 5: (antitrust and browser wars) Due April 2 WEDNESDAY
Required
Background on Antitrust: J. Church and R. Ware, Industrial
Organization, McGraw-Hill 2000, pp 889-900.
“Antitrust and
Technological Innovation”, by David M. Hart
letter from Abbott Lipsky, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Div of
DOJ, to the Attorney General, getting rid of the IBM case. Can be found in “The Transformation of
Monopolization Law”, 60 Texas Law Rev, p.639+
Recommended: Trial Court Opinion, U.S. v. AT&T. (skim for history,
economic reasoning)
U.S. vs. Mastercard and Visa, see the DOJ Complaint
Part
V of Church and Ware.
Ch. 6 (Licensing, Joint Ventures and Competition
Policy) of Innovation and Incentives.
The Browser Wars
(microsoft)
week 8
Required: U.S. v. Microsoft, appellate
decision, 2001.
Late-Breaking
News: Settlement of the States' Antitrust Action, Website for all the
Documents, Summary
of Settlement Opinion
U.S. v. Microsoft
Memorandum Opinion, Nov 1, 2002, State of NY et al v. Microsoft, Settlement Opinion, Memorandum Opinion
Recommended: Did
Microsoft Harm Consumers? Two Opposing Views, by Evans and Schmalensee,
experts for Microsoft in U.S. v. Microsoft, and Fisher and Rubinfeld, experts for DOJ side
Richard Gilbert and
Michael Katz An Economists Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft
The DOJ’s proposed
settlement http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9495.htm
The remedy proposed
by the Litigating States, http://www.ccianet.org/legal/ms/statefiling.pdf
Original
District court opinion, Judge Jackson, Findings of Fact in US
v. Microsoft.
week 9 One-Hour Midterm March 20
open source
software
CODE AS LAW
CELLPHONE
STANDARDS
week 10
Homework 6: (browser wars, open source) Due April 14
Required: Code,
pp 100-108 and Open Source Software
Projects on User Innovation Networks, Eric Von Hippel
Recommended
for those who are a bit
sophisticated mathematically: Alessandro
Aquisti and Hal Varian, Conditioning Prices on
Purchase History
Standard Setting
in Telecommunications and Broadband Access
WEEK 11
Homework 7: (telecommunications and the internet) Due
April 21
Required: Benjamin, Lichtman and Shelanski, Telecommunications Law and
Policy, 3rd edition (2001), Chapters 9 (371-391), Ch 21 (867-914)
Required:
Recommended:
"Access
and innovation policy for the third-generation internet" Francois Bar, Stphen Cohen, Peter Cowhey, Brad DeLong, Peter Kleeman John Zysman, Telecommuncations
Policy 24 20000 489-518
privacy, encryption, and computer crime
WEEK 12
Homework 8: (encryption, national security) Due April 28
Required:
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Internet Commerce (click download), L. Jean Camp and Carlos Osorio
Required: Dorothy Denning Cyberterrorism, Global Dialogue, Autumn 2000.
Recommended:
“Crypto” by Steven Levy, Viking:
News Item: Court
orders ISP to reveal website owner.
spend an hour reading on privacy websites, Center
for Democracy and Technology and The Electonic Privacy
Information Center
Hiding Crimes in Cyberspace Denning and Baugh, Information, Communication and Society, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1999, pp. 251-276. Also published in Cybercrime, D. Thomas and B. D. Loader, eds., Routledge, 2000.
Cases Involving Encryption in Crime and Terrorism – as of
Encryption and Evolving Technologies as Tools of Organized Crime and Terrorism, Denning and Baugh, National Strategy Information Center's US Working Group on Organized Crime - May 15, 1997
Dorothy
E. Denning, Information Warfare and Security, Addison-Wesley 1999
R. Bayer and A. L. Fairchild, “Surveillance and
Privacy”, Science
Digital
Browse http://www.privacy.net/ www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/variety.html#data,
also look for relevant articles in Red Herring Magazine, www.redherring.com/mag
for privacy issues, a syllabus of Prof. Mary Culnan,
Useful website http://www.privacyalliance.org/
surveillance and law enforcement in the
digital age
WEEK 13 Book Reports due this week
Homework 9: (privacy)
Due May 1
Required: European Parliament Report on Echelon and Related Technologies: Interception Capabilities 2000
Required: Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute “Independent Technical Review of Carnivore System”,
Required:
Kyllo v. Hawaii (
Recommended:
GLOBALIZATION
AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TREATIES
WEEK
14
Required:
Recommended:
Keith Maskus, Intellectual Property Rights in the Global
Economy (2000), Institute for International Economics (
Michael
Ryan, Knowledge Diplomacy
S. Scotchmer, The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties
WEEK
15 Book Reports
(discussion) and FINAL EXAM