[NYCInfoLaw] Reading Group: This Tuesday, 6.30pm Jerome Greene Hall, Rm 701, Columbia University

[Luis Villa]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Kate Vershov <kate.vershov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone!
>
> Given the Supreme Court's recent refusal to hear the government's appeal of
> a July 2008 ruling holding the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (COPA)
> unconstitutional, perhaps this is an appropriate time to examine the issue
> of online safety and the appropriate tools for achieving it.
>
>
> For a brief summary of COPA's history:
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/01/copa
> The statute can be found at:
> http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/usc_sec_47_00000231----000-.html
>
> Then, please read the executive summary of the Final Report of the Internet
> Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social
> Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States:
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/ISTTF_Final_Report-Executive_Summary.pdf

NPR's On The Media just did a brief piece on this; worth listening to
at least this if you're pressed for time before reading group:

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/01/23/04

Luis