Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal articles from March 2001

Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal archives from March 2001

Transmitting legal documents over the Internet: how to protect your client and yourself.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION [E]lectronic mail has proved itself so useful to the legal profession that it is a question of when, not whether, e-mail will become universal among all lawyers, their clients, and judges.... [C]lients demand it from their...

Open-source software and the demise of copyright.
March 22, 2001... I. COPYRIGHT, SOFTWARE, AND THE CURRENT DEBATE A. Introduction The scope of copyright protection for computer software reflects a variety of economic considerations. The chief goal of copyright law is to provide an economic incentive...

When public policies collide: legal "self-help" software and the unauthorized practice of law.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION As computer technology advances at an astonishing rate, the law often struggles to keep pace with the corresponding development of new issues of law or, at the very least, new twists to existing law. Such is the case with the...

The realities of the MP3 madness: Are record companies simply crying wolf?
March 22, 2001... "The music industry is crashing into the Interact... [t]hey don't want to go into the Digital Age, and MP3 is dragging them there."(1) INTRODUCTION The Internet is a seemingly infinite network of hundreds of millions of individual...