GENL0230  Law in the Information Age
Course Timetable
Summer 2007

 

Time

Subject Matter

Presenter

Page No

 

 

TOPIC ONE

Introduction to the Law and

Media Regulation

 

 

 

Monday

10 December

 

Session 1

1:00 –3:00

 

 

1.1 About the subject:

  • content
  • assessment, writing style
  • speakers

 

1.2 What is the Information Age?
What is ‘convergence’?

 

1.3 What is ‘the law’ and how does it work?

 

David Vaile,

Cyberspace Law Centre

 

1

 

 

 Intro PPT

 

 

 

 

Session 2

3:00 – 5:00

 

1.4 Media, communications and the Internet: the regulatory framework

 

1.5 Regulatory issues:

  • digitisation and liberalisation
  • infrastructure monopoly and competition

 

John Corker,

formerly ABA, Communications Law Centre

13

 

 Regulation PPT

 

 

 

 

TOPIC TWO

Doing Business in the Information Age

 

 

 

Tuesday

11 December

Session 3

1:00 –3:00

 

2.1 Introduction to electronic commerce

 

2.2 Contracts and electronic transactions

 

·       What is a contract?

·       Electronic transactions

 

2.3 Setting up a business entity

 

·       Trading entities

·       Domain names

 

David Vaile

 

49

 

 

 

 

Ecommerce PPT 

 

 

 

 

Session 4

3:00 – 5:00

 

2.4 Fair-trading, anti-competitive conduct and consumer protection

 

·       What do ‘trade practices’ and ‘fair trading’ cover?

·       Consumer protection and the internet

 

David Vaile

69

 

 

 Fair trading PPT

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOPIC THREE

Broadband to where? – and –

Free Speech in the Information Age

 

 

 

Thursday

13 December


Session 5

1:00 –3:00

1.5A Broadband to where? Comms delivery systems; ACCC discussion paper on FANOC

Holly Raiche,
ISOC AU

Broadband PPT

ACCC paper 
  [Original]

 

Session 6

3:00 – 5:00

 

3.2 Defamation

 

·       Introducing defamation

·       Defamation online

 

3.3 Free speech, SMS, and sedition  

 

Russell Allen,
media lawyer

117

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOPIC FOUR

Restrictions on Media and

Online Content in the Information Age

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

18 December

 

Session 7

1:00 –3:00

 

3.1 Privacy

 

·       Privacy concerns arising from electronic communication

·       The emerging legal protections

 

David Vaile

87

 

Privacy PPT 

 

Session 8

3:00 – 5:00

 

4.1 Classification and censorship

·       Classification of film

·       Classification of television

4.2 Classification of online content

4.3 Regulation of online gambling

4.4 Regulation of spam

 

David Vaile

151

 

 

163

 

Content PPT

 

 

 

 

TOPIC FIVE

Intellectual Property and

Crime in the Information Age

 

 

 

Thursday

20 December

 

Session 9

1:00 –3:00

 

5.1 Intellectual property

 

·       Introducing copyright, trademarks, other types of intellectual property

·       Intellectual property in the digital age

 

David Vaile

185

 

 

IP 

 

Session 10

3:00 – 5:00

 

5.2 Cybercrime

 

·       Australian legal developments

·       International law developments

 

Alana Maurushat

219

 

 

 

 

 

Diary due: Friday 11 January 2008
Essay due: Friday 18 January 2008