Fall Semester 2003 Information Society

The Information Society

Professor Jack M. Balkin

Yale Law School

Syllabus

Note: During the first several weeks we will be reading C. Edwin Baker, Media, Markets, and Democracy (2002), a copy of which you should purchase for the course. All other materials will be available on the Internet.

1. Democratic Culture

2. Media Regulation– Audiences and Markets

  • Baker, Media, Markets, and Democracy, pp. 1-121, 285-307

3. Media Regulation– Democracy, Journalism and International Trade

  • Baker, Media, Markets and Democracy, pp. 125-284

4. Media Concentration

 5. The Future of Intellectual Property

(special session with Terry Fisher and John Palfrey)

6. Commercial Speech

7. Copyright and Freedom of Speech

Cases

8. Copyright and Freedom of Speech

Commentary

9. Trademark, Rights of Publicity, and the First Amendment

10. Digital Control of Information

11. Digital Control of Information

12. Privacy and Autonomy

13. Privacy and the First Amendment

14. The Political Economy of Information Production

15. TBA