When discussing a trademark and trade dress case involving Coach bags and the hang tag labels, showing the handbags and tags to the class from a website makes a world of difference in students' understanding of the facts in the case. When the focus is on the right of publicity, playing an Elvis song from the web as the class comes into the room sets the stage for considering cases dealing with the survivability of the right of publicity. There are outstanding websites that contain examples of music infringement cases with sound files that I play for the class to help them understand the infringement issues involved in the cases. Cyberspace Law is a seminar that consists of a few introductory lectures by me plus a variety of guest speakers. The lectures I deliver have web support as used in the Intellectual Property course.
Guest speakers use the web to varying degrees for their presentations.
Readings for the course are almost always on the web, so the reading assignments page consist of links to these materials. Students have two major assignments. The first is to work in teams of 6-7 students to draft an Internet policy for an organization or agency. The policy must be done as a webpage which is available on the course website. The second is to work with an assigned partner from the class to create a website on an assigned topic such as gambling on the Internet, jurisdiction in cyberspace, trademark protection on the web, telemedicine, etc.