How the Supreme Court Ignored the Lesson of ‘Zeran’ and Screwed Up Copyright Law on the Internet

Law.com / The Recorder

3 Pages Posted: 15 Nov 2017

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Roger Allan Ford

University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law; Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Date Written: November 10, 2017

Abstract

This short essay, prepared for a retrospective organized by Eric Goldman and Jeff Kosseff on the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth Circuit’s decision in Zeran v. AOL, argues that the Supreme Court failed to learn the lesson of that foundational case, with adverse consequences for copyright law on the internet.

Keywords: copyright, intellectual property, internet law, section 230

Suggested Citation

Ford, Roger Allan, How the Supreme Court Ignored the Lesson of ‘Zeran’ and Screwed Up Copyright Law on the Internet (November 10, 2017). Law.com / The Recorder, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3069955

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