Douglas J. Frederick's Bookmarks

for the Cyberspace law Seminar Spring 1998.

As far as pursuing a topic, I have decided that my dissertation is going to examine on-line promotion/public relations and marketing. Thus, I think it would be beneficial to have an understanding of legal issues involved. I have narrowed my topic down to a few different options:

1. My first choice is to examine Unsolicited e-mail and SPAMMING. Please see the sites listed below.

2. My second choice would be to examine Advertising Law on the internet - for example when promoting dietary supplements does this fall under FTC or FDA regulation. See http://venable.com/govern/netpromo.htm

3. My third choice is examining advertising of Alcohol and Tobacco on the internet - should the regulations pretaining to television and radio apply to the internet?

I have put together this list of sites which I have discovered by "surfing" the web. The Mega General Research Sites are basically search engines. The Mega Legal Research Sites are either searchable sites or linked resource sites for legal issues and law topics. The Cyberlaw section provides links to sites that discuss cyberlaw and are linked to other cyberlaw sites.

The rest of the sites contained in Cyber-Marketing Sites, Advertising and Commerce Sites and E-mail marketing and Spam sites have been bookmarked because this is the area that I choose to explore for my topic area. I have found the most help in locating resources by using AltaVista, Findlaw, Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers, Electronic Marketing Update, Advertising Law Internet Site, and just following links from other sites.

Mega General Research Sites

Sites where you can look for anything on the web. All search engines.
Search - http://www.search.com/
Altavista - http://www.altavista.digital.com/
InfoSeek - http://www.infoseek.com/
Webcrawler - http://www.webcrawler.com/
Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/
Excite - http://www.excite.com/
Dejanews - http://www.dejanews.com/
Search engine that particularly deals with the newsgroups.
Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication
http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/internet-cmc.html
A good launch pad for just about anything to do with the sources of info on internet.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Home Page - http://www.fcc.gov/

Mega Legal Research Sites

This folder contains bookmarks of Legal Research Sites - Mega Sites.
Findlaw - http://www.findlaw.com/
Searchable site for law topics.
Legal Research - http://lawinfo.com/links/
Site where you can search supreme court decisions, etc.
GSU College of Law -- Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex
Searchable Site for anything pertaining to Law.
Cyberspace Law Institute - http://www.cli.org
This is the Cyberspace Law Institute. The links may be valuable.
CyberSpace Law Center: Other CyberSpace Law Sites
http://cybersquirrel.com/clc/cybersites.html
Links to other Cyberspace law sites. You can also search Findlaw from this site.
The Internet Lawyer - Internet Guru Archives - http://www.internetlawyer.com/guruarch.htm
This is a helpful site for pretty much anything to do with law. It is set up as a Qand A where people have asked lawyers for advice and the lawyers provide answers.

Cyberlaw

Bookmarks for the Cyberspace Law Seminar.
LAW OF THE INTERNET - http://www.ljx.com/internet/
Good site that covers and provides links to other site about legal issues and the internet. Everything from censorship and e-commerce to net ethics.
The E-LAW Locator - http://www.leepfrog.com/E-Law/E-LAW_Links.html
A site with links to many other sites regarding cyberlaw topics.
cyberlaw.com - http://www.cyberlaw.com/
This is a Cyberlaw site that links to articles and archives on Internet law.
The Practice of Law in a Digital Era - http://users.aol.com/dmk58/praclaw.html
Site that provides links to cyberlaw and Internet law. Also, discusses marketing and advertising by Lawyers on the internet.
Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/csl_lessons.html
Good resource about Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers.
The Law of Cyberspace -- An Overview - http://www.rbvdnr.com/lit.cyber.htm
A site that discusses different legal issues of the internet.

Cyber-Marketing Sites

The bookmarks contain herein deal with web marketing and law firm marketing on the internet.
Web Marketing Info Center - Wilson Internet Services
http://wilsonweb.com/webmarket/
Searchable site for anything dealing with web marketing. Links to chat rooms and many articles regarding legal issues, etc. For some articles you need to have a subscription and pay $$.
Web Counsel Web Notes - Legal Websites: Creation, Marketing, Disintermediation and Ethics - http://www.webcounsel.com/plipaper.htm
Information about creating a website for your law firm and marketing/promoting your website.
Website Promoters Resource Center - http://www.wprc.com/
Information on marketing/promotion of websites.
Electronic Marketing Update - http://venable.com/govern/elec.htm
Site has many links to important legal issues concerning internet marketing.
Internet Promotion - http://venable.com/govern/netpromo.htm
Interesting article on promoting dietary supplements on the internet. FDA labeling or FTC advertising regulations?
New Challenges - http://venable.com/govern/newchall.htm
Article on the new role of advertising with interactive media.
Role of advertising - http://venable.com/govern/roleofad.htm
Another article on the role of advertising with changing media of communication.
Project 2000 Home Page - http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/
Marketing by CMC. By the graduate school of management at Vanderbilt University.

Advertising and Commerce Sites

The sites contained herein pertain to advertising on the Internet and legal issues regarding such advertising.
Federal Trade Commission Home Page - http://www.ftc.gov/
FTC home page.
CyberLaw Presents: Issues In Internet Commerce
http://www.cyberlaw.com/issues.html
This is a cyberlaw site that brings forth legal issues of internet commerce.
FTC Press Release on First Internet Cases
http://www.webcom.com/lewrose/article/ftc-net.html
Information about the FTC crackdown on decpetive marketing in cyberspace.
Advertising Law & Ethics - http://advertising.utexas.edu/research/law/index.html
Site from the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Advertising. Good resource for anything related to advertising law and ethics.
AdMedium Central - http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~admedium/
This site is an interesting site on advertising. It does not necessarily involve law and legal issues.
Advertising Law Internet Site - http://www.advertisinglaw.com/
Another excellent site for advertising law resources.
Blacklist of Internet Advertisers - http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~cbrown/BL/#list
A list of advertisers that have spammed newsgroups and individuals. Can the list be considered libel or slander?
Advertising Law: Free Online Sample Issue: Internet Advertising Law Article
http://www.lawpublish.com/s4.htm
Site desribes a case of Internet Fraud and the FTC action that followed.

E-Mail marketing and SPAM Sites

Sites having to do with e-mail marketing, and unsolicited e-mail also known as SPAM.
Responsible E-Mail Marketing - Web Marketing Info Center
http://www.wilsonweb.com/webmarket/email.htm
Interesting Site containing articles from Web Marketing about e-mail marketing. For most of the articles you need to be a subscriber to view.
CARROLL: GARBAGE IN
http://server.berkeley.edu/BTLJ/articles/11-2/carroll.html
Excellent article from the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. It briefly covers the history of unsolicited advertising and the legal issues of commercial speech.
IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT "SPAM" E-MAIL
http://www.kode.net/spam.htm
This site claims that unsolicited e-mail is already outlawed.
SPAM - The Law of Spam
http://www.fringeware.com/msg/1996/msg00106.html
Descriptive article about spam and the Cyber Promotions cases. The author claims that unsolicited e-mailing is not illegal as of yet.
Cyber Promotions, Inc. v. America Online, Inc.
http://www.leegfrog.com/E-Law/Cases/Cyber_Promo_v_AOL.html
A site dedicated to the case of Cyber Promotions v. AOL.
EPLR: America Online Inc. v. Cyber Promotions Inc.
http://zeus.bna.com/e-law/cases/cyber32.html
Another site about the case.
Spam wars head to Congress
http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0522/zdnn0009.html
A news article from ZDNET news channel that discusses the proposed "Netizens Protection Act."
Unsolicited E-mail - Statutes
http://host1.jmls.edu/cyber/statutes/email/
This site is a resource of other links regarding legal action against unsolicited e-mail. This includes the Netizens Protection Act, etc.
Proposed anti-SPAMMING law
http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/199705/msg00576.html
This site is about a bill that Senator Frank Murkowski introduced.
Internet Law Update - April, 1997
http://www.shsl.com/newsletters/ilpg/318166.html
This article discusses E-mail Advertising and the First Amendment.
Junk E-Mail Ban Proposed
http://www.cslnet.ctstateu.edu/attygenl/e-mail.htm
The Connecticut General Assembly failed to pass an anti-spamming bill.
Spam On The Internet
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/columns/kline8.htm
Interesting article about spam.
Index of Anti Junk E-mail Sites (anti-spam) - http://www.webcom.com/jac/ejunk.html
Links to many anti-spam sites.
New Page 1 - http://www.junkx.com/
This site offers free software to eliminate spam.
The Trouble With SPAM -- by Bill Weinman - http://www.weinman.com/wew/spam/
An article on spam.
E-MAIL/SPAM - http://www.ljx.com/internet/iremail.html
Site from the Law of the Internet about spam.
Junk E-Mail - http://www.ssrn.com/WebX?13@^290@.ee6b30d
An article from the Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers site about junk e-mail.