Computer Fraud and Electronic Communication Laws

 
Arizona state laws are in the Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 13-2316 Computer fraud; classification
Title 13-3005 Interception of wire, electronic and oral communications; installation of pen register or trap and trace device; classification; exceptions
Title 13-3006 Divulging communication service information; classification; exception
Title 13-3009 Duty to report to law enforcement officers; classification
Title 13-3012 Exemptions that cover the communication service provider
Title 13-702 Sentencing
 
 
Federal Laws are in the United States Code
Title 18 § 1030  Fraud and related activity in connection with computers
Title 18 § 2511 Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited
 

Legal and Ethical Internet Resources


This Web page is a compilation of resources available on the Internet to assist University and other Internet administrators when dealing with legal and ethical Internet issues.

Copyright

University of Virginia - Copyright Law.
A collection of US copyright laws

Copyright Guide for Photographers.
American Society of Media Photographers, Inc.

Fair Use Defense
"simple and clear legal explanation of fair use"

Copyright and Fair Use.
Sponsored by Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources, in collaboration with the Council on Library Resources and FindLaw Internet Legal Resources.

Copyright FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions regarding Copyright (posted to Usenet News).

EFF "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright".
A selection of files including the copyright_law.paper.

Other copyright sites:
Copyright Law Materials (Cornell Law School)
Copyright/Patent/Trademark Supreme Court cases (law.cornell)
ACIS CyberLaw paper (sun.com)
Law: Intellectual Property: Copyright (Yahoo.com)
Intellectual Propery References (Cleveland Thornton's LegalBits page.)
Copyright Act of 1976, as Amended (1994) (law.cornell)

Ethics and Acceptable Use Statements

UCSD's Ethics Updates

MU's Computing Policy Collections

University of New Mexico's Ethics Statement Archive

Educational Computer Policies

Acceptable and Unacceptable Use of Net Resources (K12) Policies
Policies from around the US and world, some with critiques.

Warning Screens (Important discussion)

Articles

There are a few articles on-line that describe, especially for sysadmins, some of the issues we face as we do our jobs. Mike Godwin, for instance, regularly writes for Internet World and makes his articles available via the Electronic Frontier Foundation http server.

Articles by Mike Godwin at the Electronic Frontier Foundation WWW Site.
Including: The Law of the Net, Sex and the Single Sysadmin, Virtual Community Standards

"P-Law: Legal Resource Locator"
Links to various articles: Computer Information Systems Law and System Operator Liability, Analysis of An Electronic Pornography Conviction, also Multimedia Law and Software Licensing.

"Applying Library Intellectual Freedom Principles to Public and Academic Computers", Carl M. Kadie

THE COMPUTER LAW REPORT (CompLawLst@aol.com) General Info: The Computer Law Report is distributed (usually) weekly for free and is prepared by William S. Galkin, Esq. Mr. Galkin is an attorney in private practice in Owings Mills, Maryland (which is a suburb of Baltimore), and also an adjunct professor of Computer Law at the University of Maryland School of Law. The Report is designed specifically for the non-lawyer. To subscribe, send e-mail to galkin@aol.com . All information contained in The Computer Law Report is for the benefit of the recipients, and should not be relied on or considered as legal advice. Copyright 1995 by William S. Galkin.

Legal Pointers

American Civil Liberties Union, Freedom Network

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CSPR is a group of computer scientists working to alert the public about critical issues involving information technology.

Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference
A Report on The Second Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP-92), March 18-20, 1992, Washington, DC, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, thirteen co-sponsors, and a wide variety of advocacy groups.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
(Also: About EFF, Academic Freedom, Legal Issues and Policy, gopher site)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is active in trying to protect individual's electronic rights within a legal framework.

Inherent Technologies, Inc.
Inherent Technologies is a legal information systems technology company. They specialize in technology counsel to the legal profession, legal software technologies, adn Internet Technologies.

InterNIC, Internet Network Information Center
The main Internic organization with RFC's, FYI's, registration info, etc.

Lexis/Nexis.
This service still being built, but should provide some news services via www when it is finished.

The SunSITE SMUT Page
A compilation of materials discussing cyberporn and the computer decency act.

ACLU - "Privacy -- Clipper ... Archive"
Clipper reports cover legal issues involving telecommunications, intellectual property and cable and telephone disputes.

US Department of Justice.
(Also: gopher site)

White House Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF).
IITF speeches, testimony, reports, and documents from IITF work groups and committees. The IITF has released reports on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure, Privacy Principles, Security issues, and other subjects.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Cornell Law School

Supreme Court Decisions - Project Hermes
US Supreme Court decisions available online. (Also archived at ftp.cwru.edu and ftp.uu.net)

Cornell Law Lists
Archived mailing list discussions relating to law on the Internet.
Internet Law Sources Archive
Legal Webmasters Archive

Discussion Lists

lacc@suburbia.net
This list has been created in an attempt to mitigate the lack of tangible resources people involved with computer crime rely on. It is hoped that by bringing together knowledgeable people in the aforementioned fields together with para-legal personnel and informed lay persons; information and resources relevant to the difficult task of analyzing, presenting in court or otherwise dealing with computer crime law and computer crimes may be shared and intelligent discussion stimulated. To subscribe, send mail to lacc-request@suburbia.net and say subscribe lacc in the body of the message.

Misc.legal.computing
A Usenet News discussion group that talks about legal issues involving computers.

alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
A Usenet News discussion group that talks about academic freedom issues.

Examples of Internet Legal Battles

World Wide Web Pages to go black 48 hours protest of "second-class treatment from the US Government for free speech".

Here's a letter from the lawyers representing Elvis Presley Enterprises "requesting" that the maintainer of the Elvis home page cease his posting of graphics and sound.

Feedback

Feel free to contact Gary McClellan if you have any advice or corrections to suggest regarding this page.