GENL 0230  Law in the Information Age NO LONGER OFFERED
See - GENL 0231  Law in the Information Age 2.0*

Detailed Timetable – Summer 20010
See also: Handbook timetable (2.0)

Venue: Australian School Business 119 (K-E12-119)

Note: order of Sessions may be subject to change, depending on availability of guest speakers.
'Chapters' refer to the Chapter in the materials, which will not change regardless of speaker availability.
(*The new 6 unit course GENL 0231, Law in the Information Age 2.0, shares the core 2 hour classes and also has an
extra hour of additional material after each of these classes. GENL 0230 sessions are 2 hours, 0231 are 2 + 1 = 3 hours.)

Day, Time

Subject Matter

Presenter

Page No

Tuesday
30 November 

DAY ONE
Introduction to Law and Media Regulation 

 

 

 

 Session 1
Chapter 1
10:00 –12:00

 


Ch. 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 and Policy Centre

1 

 Intro PPT 
12–1:00

[GENL0231 - extra material]
Sources of law.
What is 'Web 2.0' and how does it impact regulating communications and IT industries?

   

Session 2

Chapter 2
2:00 – 4:00


Ch. 2.1 Media, communications and the Internet: the regulatory framework

2.2 Regulatory issues:

  • digitisation and liberalisation
  • infrastructure monopoly and competition

John Corker, former ABA & Communications Law Centre counsel

13

 Regulation PPT
4–5:00
[GENL0231 - extra material]
   

Thursday
2 December

 
DAY TWO
Broadband to where? – and – Free Speech in the Information Age: Defamation

 

 

 

Session 3

Chapter 2
10:00 –12:00


2.3 Broadband to where? NBN, competition and fibre past the exchange.

  • 'Carrier', 'Carriage Service provider', 'broadband'
  • Government policy pronouncements
  • Back to government monopoly?
  • Who are the players?

Holly Raiche,
Internet and communications industry expert

 Broadband PPT
12–1:00

[GENL0231 ]

Brendan Scott's blog
'National Broadband Network' (2010) Australian Government, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (News on the NBN, and progress on building the network and new regulatory frameworks)
'Telecommunications Regulatory Reform' (2010) DBCDE
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010, and its Explanatory Memorandum and Second Reading Speech.

    

Session 4

Chapter 6
10:00 – 12:00

Ch. 6.1 Defamation

  • Introducing defamation
  • Defamation online

6.2 Free speech, SMS, and sedition  

Russell Allen,
media lawyer

117
4–5:00

[GENL0231 - extra material]

Tweet material
Defamation notes

    

 

 Friday
3 December

 DAY THREE
Doing Business in the Information Age 

 

 

Session 5

Chapter 3
2:00 – 4:00


Ch. 3.1 Introduction to electronic commerce

3.2 Contracts and electronic transactions

  • What is a contract?
  • Electronic transactions

3.3 Setting up a business entity

  • Trading entities
  • Domain names 

David Vaile

49

Ecommerce PPT 
12–1:00

[GENL0231 - extra material]

Ebay and Trademarks

   

Session 6

Chapter 4
2:00–4:00

Ch. 4.1 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

 
4–5:00

[GENL0231 - extra material]

Overview of the Australian Consumer Law reforms - how will the law change from 1 January 2011?

    

 Tuesday
7 December

 DAY FOUR

Privacy – and –
Free Speech (cont.): Restrictions on Content

 

 

 Session 7

Chapter 5
10:00 –12:00

Ch. 5.1 Privacy

  • Privacy concerns arising from electronic comms
  • The emerging legal protections

David Vaile

87 

Privacy PPT 
12–1:00

[GENL0231 - extra material]

Submissions to online privacy inquiry:
ADMA | APF | EFA | Google | PC | Yahoo
US SSN.

    

Session 8

Chapter 7 & 8
2:00 – 4:00

Ch. 7.1 Classification and censorship

·       Classification of film, television, games

7.2 Classification of online content

7.3 Internet filtering

Ch. 8.1 Regulation of online gambling

8.2 Regulation of spam

David Vaile

151

  

201

Content PPT  
4–5:00

[GENL0231 extra: - classification - gambling]

Wikileaks: is it journalism? National Security threat? Illegal?
(Necessary?) Secrecy of state v. levelling intent of individuals

    

 Thursday
9 December

 DAY FIVE
Intellectual Property – and –
Crime in the Information Age

 

 

Session 9

Chapter 9
10:00 –12:00

Ch.  9.1 Intro to Intellectual property: copyright

·       IP in the digital age

9.2 Trademarks

9.3 - 9.6 designs, patents, confidential info, moral rights

Sarah Lux, lawyer from Allens Arthur Robinson

211 

IP outline

Intro to IP - Lux  
12–1:00
[GENL0231 - extra material]
   

Session 10

Chapter 10
2:00 – 4:00

Ch.  10.1 Cybercrime

·       Australian legal developments

·       International law developments 

David Vaile or Alana Maurushat, cybercrime researcher

245 
4–5:00
[GENL0231 - extra material]
   

Diary due: Wednesday 15 December 2010 - in the box on Level 2 Law Faculty student centre by 4:00

Essay due: Friday 17 December 2010 - 3:00 pm

Online Contribution, now due: Wednesday 22 December 2010 - 5:00 pm.