1. What is the Internet? What is 'cyberspace'? Leiner et al A Brief History of the Internet William Gibson Neuromancer, Ace Books, text Study Guide for Neuromancer dy_guide.html dy_guide.html

2. Technical basis - The Internet protocols (TCP/IP) and Internet applications Roger Clarke, Gillian Dempsey, Ooi Chuin Nee and Robert F. O'Connor A Primer on Internet Technology (1998) Clarke also provides a very simple introduction The Internet as a Postal Service: A Fairy Story (1998) Cliff Green An Introduction to Internet Protocols for Newbies (1996) ocols.html ocols.html

3. Origins and history of the Internet The pre-commercial Internet (to 1996) –Vinton Cerf, Computer Networking: Global infrastructure for the 21st Century –Howard Rheingold ‘Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net’ Chapter Three of The Virtual Community (1994) –Robert Hobbes' Zakon Hobbes' Internet Timeline v

3.2 The commercial Internet (since 1996) - The 'new economy' Kevin Kelly's ‘New Rules for the New Economy’ WIRED archive 5.09 (1997) –The Law of Connection - Embrace dumb power –The Law of Plentitude - More gives more –The Law of Exponential Value - Success is nonlinear –The Law of Tipping Points - Significance precedes momentum –The Law of Increasing Returns - Make virtuous circles –The Law of Inverse Pricing - Anticipate the cheap –The Law of Generosity - Follow the free –The Law of the Allegiance - Feed the web first –The Law of Devolution - Let go at the top –The Law of Displacement - The net wins –The Law of Churn - Seek sustainable disequilibrium –The Law of Inefficiencies - Don't solve problems

3.3 Origins and history of the Internet The Internet in Australia –Roger Clarke A Brief History of the Internet in Australia v3.1 (2001) –National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) Current State Of Play (April 2002) csop Chapters statistics on Internet penetration and use. csop

4. Theories of cyberspace regulation 5. `Virtual communities' and self- regulation: Digital libertarianism Johnson and Post - 'Net federalism‘ David R. Johnson and David G. Post ‘Law and Borders--The Rise of Law in Cyberspace’ 48 Stanford Law Review 1367 (1996) Shorter version: Johnson and Post And How Shall the Net be Governed? - A Meditation on the Relative Virtues of Decentralized, Emergent Law (1996)

5.2 Self-regulatory mechanisms – ADR in cyberspace disputes? Consumers International study ent_store/Doc35.pdf ent_store/Doc35.pdf OECD’s Guidelines for Consumer Protection in the Context of Electronic Commerce (1999) Online Ombuds Office

6. Regulatory models for cyberspace 7. Lawrence Lessig – 'Code' as regulation Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books Lawrence Lessig ‘The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach' 113 Harvard Law Review 501 (1999) Graham Greenleaf, ‘An Endnote on Regulating Cyberspace: Architecture vs Law?’ (1998) University of New South Wales Law Journal Volume 21, Number 2 (Parts III – V) ( vol21no2/greenleaf.html) 'Electronic Commerce: Legal Issues For The Information Age ' vol21no2/greenleaf.html

Lawrence Lessig – 'Code' as regulation (cont.) ExplanationExample LawA body of rules regulating society’s behaviour, for which sanctions will be imposed if the rules are breached. Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) MarketsEconomic factors which impact upon the value of a product Telstra’s near- monopoly NormsCustoms or conventions‘Netiquette’ CodeA set of constraints on how one can behave Software code, the laws of physics

Lawrence Lessig – 'Code' as regulation (cont) Critiques/commentaries on Lessig's arguments Reviews –Karen Coyle, Information Technology and Libraries, September –Mark S. Nadel "Book Review: Computer Code vs. Legal Code: Setting the Rules in Cyberspace" Federal Communications Law Journal –Charles C. Mann "The Unacknowledged Legislators of the Digital World" Atlantic Unbound, December 15,

Lawrence Lessig – 'Code' as regulation (cont.) The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World Random House (2001) Tom Zillner, Information Technology and Libraries summaryhttp:// Free Culture

Other theoretical approaches to cyberspace regulation James Boyle's critique of 'digital libertarianism’: ‘Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hard-Wired Censors’ (1997) Joel Reidenberg - "Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules through Technology" (1998) 76 Texas Law Review ( Trotter Hardy's presumption of decentralised control I Trotter Hardy 'The proper legal regime for cyberspace' University of Pittsburg Law Review, 1994, 55: Johnson and Post - net federalism