Computer Scientists Discuss Their Views of Copyright at Boyd

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To the surprise of some copyright law students, copyright law protects computer programs and regularly affects the work of computer programmers. Computer programs enjoy protection as literary works, with protection extending to both source code and object code; copyright also protects the non-literal elements of computer programs under certain circumstances, such as an original structure of a computer program. Additionally, copyright protects original works of authorship that result from the execution of computer programs, which may be pictorial works, musical works, sound recordings, or audiovisual works.

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To enhance her copyright students’ understanding of the impact that copyright law has not only on the software industry, but also on other industries that utilize computer programs, this semester Professor Marketa Trimble invited to her Copyright class two colleagues from the Department of Computer Science of the UNLV Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering. Dr. Andreas Stefik and Mr. Guymon Hall explained to the students some of the basic concepts of computer programming and discussed in detail the functioning of an API (application programming interface), an interface that plays a role in the ongoing high-profile dispute between Oracle and Google regarding Google’s Android operating system. Dr. Stefik also shared his experiences with the development and licensing of his Quorum programming language and discussed a number of existing licenses, such as the GNU General Public License v3, the MIT License, and the Apache License, that computer programmers consider when deciding the best ways to license their programs.

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Dr. Stefik is a professor of computer science in the College of Engineering; his Ph.D. in computer science is from Washington State University. In 2011 Dr. Stefik received the JavaOne Duke’s Choice Award for his work on the NSF-funded Sodbeans programming environment for the visually impaired. Mr. Guymon Hall is an instructor of computer science in the College of Engineering where he is finishing his Ph.D. He teaches a variety of computer science courses, including Introduction to Computers, Computer Science I and II, Computing Languages, and Managing Big Data & Web Databases.

The cooperation leading to this session of Professor Trimble’s Copyright course makes available to Boyd students the richness of talent that is present throughout UNLV – talent on which Boyd draws and to which the Boyd faculty actively contributes.

Artists Speak to UNLV Law Copyright Class

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Guest speakers enrich the intellectual environment at the Boyd School of Law, contributing their expertise, practical observations, and varied perspectives. This semester Professor Marketa Trimble invited two performing artists to her Copyright course to share their experiences with and opinions of copyright law: Professor and Director of Opera Theater, Voice at UNLV Dr. Linda Lister, and Las Vegas Headliner of the Year twice running, Mr. Frankie Moreno.

Dr. Linda Lister is Associate Professor of Music at UNLV and Director of Opera Theater, Voice at UNLV. In addition to her educational roles, she has many solo soprano credits, including performances with the Washington Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and numerous opera roles, including one of her favorites, Musetta in “La Bohème.” She is also a composer of vocal works and operas, including a chamber opera about the Brontë sisters entitled “How Clear She Shines!”, and the author of numerous articles and the 2011 book “Yoga for Singers: Freeing Your Voice and Spirit Through Yoga.” In 2014 she was awarded the American Prize in Directing, and in 2015 she directed the UNLV Opera to two First Place Awards in the 2015 National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition in both the musical theatre and graduate opera divisions.

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Mr. Frankie Moreno is an Emmy-nominated international recording artist, singer, songwriter and composer, and one of the most popular performing artists in Las Vegas today. From his childhood days on “Star Search,” to headlining at the Stratosphere, to his performance in 2012 on “Dancing with the Stars,” he has performed to sold-out shows across the United States, including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and The Hollywood Bowl. His touring has taken him around the world, and this year, after thrilling Las Vegas audiences with his “Under the Influence” series of concerts at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, he went on to Australia to thrill audiences Down Under. Mr. Moreno participates in many educational activities: with the students of the Gilbert Magnet School in Las Vegas he recorded an iconic version of the official state song of the State of Nevada “Home Means Nevada” for Nevada’s Sesquicentennial celebration in 2014.

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Professor Lister and Mr. Moreno shared with students their many experiences with copyright law, including their very first encounters with copyright law, how technology has changed the challenges that artists and the copyright laws face, and how different copyright law issues arise in the various types of art that artists create. From composing their own music, to performing and recording music by others, to using works either in or out of copyright, artists face a multiplicity of copyright challenges. Professor Lister and Mr. Moreno also opined on how copyright law and its practice can enhance – or at least not impede – their work, and explained what they would like lawyers to know when lawyers work with or represent artists. Law students at Boyd are fortunate to study copyright law in a city that is the home of such talented artists who are so generous in sharing their experiences with students and the community.

Ms. Betty Willis: Her Famous “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” Sign and Her Artistic Legacy in Las Vegas Neon

Photo (c) 2015 Gary A. Trimble

On March 23, 2015, Ms. Marjorie Holland, the daughter of Ms. Betty Willis, visited the Boyd School of Law to speak to Boyd students, faculty, and guests about her mother, a beloved artist who shaped the history of Las Vegas neon sign design. Ms. Willis, now 91, is most well known for her iconic sign “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas,” which she designed in 1959; the sign still welcomes visitors on Las Vegas Boulevard at the south end of the “Strip” today. But Ms. Willis’ legacy includes many other signs, including the famous sign for the Moulin Rouge Casino, which opened in May 1955 as the first desegregated hotel and casino in Las Vegas, and the sign for the Blue Angel Motel.

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Ms. Holland's talk was co-organized by the Wiener-Rogers Law Library and Professor Marketa Trimble, and gave students from Professor Trimble’s Advanced Intellectual Property Seminar an opportunity to learn about Ms. Willis’ artistic legacy, career, vision, and concerns, and also a practical background for considerations of legal protection and the limitations of legal protection that apply to artists and their art, particularly in the context of art created for public places.

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The Advanced Intellectual Property Seminar, offered at Boyd each year by either Professor Mary LaFrance or Professor Marketa Trimble, is designed for students who complete at least one of Boyd’s foundational intellectual property law courses and want further specialization in an area of intellectual property law. The Seminar expands students’ knowledge of intellectual property law and policies that affect the law by building on the students’ knowledge from the foundational courses. Students write an extensive research paper for the Seminar that explores an advanced intellectual property law topic of their choice. For example, the students in the Seminar this year are writing research papers covering topics such as the patenting of computer programs, the patenting of financial business methods, the patenting of artificial intelligence, parodies made of fashion brands, copyright and creativity in hip-hop music, and recent amendments to the Korean patent law.

Nevada Bar Intellectual Property Law Section’s 2014 Annual Conference at Boyd

By Marketa Trimble, Associate Professor of Law 

On Nov. 14, 2014, the William S. Boyd School of Law co-sponsored and hosted the annual Intellectual Property Law Conference of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Nevada. This is the second year the Law School has hosted the Conference, which offers an excellent opportunity for Section members, the Boyd faculty, and Boyd students to discuss current issues in intellectual property law and network with colleagues sharing common interests.

The program began with two morning sessions presenting an in-depth look at selected problems of franchising and intellectual property licensing. Matthew J. Kreutzer (Howard & Howard, Las Vegas, NV) shared his expertise in franchising, which has evolved over his more than 15 years of working with individuals and companies on franchising relationships. Paul C. Jorgensen (The Jorgensen Law Firm, Washington, D.C.) gave an overview of major issues in licensing and provided valuable practice tips related to drafting and negotiating intellectual property licenses.

The first afternoon session was divided into two tracks. Track One focused on copyright and trademark law; Professor Mary LaFrance and Associate Professor Marketa Trimble, both Boyd faculty members, reviewed recent and current developments in trademark and copyright law from the past year, including U.S. Supreme Court 2014 decisions in these areas. Professor Justin Hughes (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA) spoke on enforcement of intellectual property rights on the Internet and provided a comparative perspective that is useful in an era of Internet and other cross-border intellectual property right disputes. Track Two concentrated on patent law. Herbert R. Schulze (Holland & Hart, Reno, NV) covered the historical development of the law on patentable subject matter and discussed its current trajectory following the heavily criticized June 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l. Juergen Krause-Polstorff (San Jose, CA) addressed current issues in functional claiming, and David C. Van Dyke (Howard & Howard, Chicago, IL) spoke on patent litigation concerning standard essential patents, fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory licensing terms that owners of such patents must offer, and obligations stemming from participation in standard-setting organizations.

The second afternoon session covered a variety of current issues in entertainment law. The panel chair, Ryan R. Gile (Weide & Miller, Ltd., Las Vegas, NV), invited a group of highly experienced local attorneys who generously shared cautionary tales and practice tips spanning privacy law, the right of publicity, employment law, Internet domain name law, professional responsibility, and other areas. The panelists were Anat Levy (Beverly Hills, CA, and Las Vegas, NV), Linda Norcross (‘04, Howard & Howard, Las Vegas, NV), Steven Pacitti (Feldmann Nagel, LLC, Las Vegas, NV), and Kimberly Stein (Howard & Howard, Las Vegas, NV).

The William S. Boyd School of Law is proud to be a co-sponsor of the annual Conference of the Intellectual Property Law Section; Boyd co-sponsorship is one of the many ways the law school connects with the State Bar of Nevada.

Nevada IP Practitioners Share Their Expertise and Enthusiasm with Boyd Students

The most enriching environment for students is one that enables them to learn from both excellent academic faculty and highly experienced practitioners. Boyd students benefit even more when the practitioners are from Nevada and share their observations about practicing law from a Nevada viewpoint. This semester Boyd students benefited from two events that brought an outstanding group of intellectual property (“IP”) law practitioners to Boyd.

The first event, a panel discussion on October 7, 2014, featured three attorneys who practice in Las Vegas; they discussed career options available in the practice of IP law. W. West Allen, a partner at Lewis Rocca Rothgerber, spoke about his role in litigation and his role as adviser to companies on a wide variety of IP matters. Seaton J. Curran, an attorney with Howard & Howard, explained his role in prosecuting patents before the USPTO and foreign patent offices and advising inventors and companies on patent filing issues. Abiola Shobola, Intellectual Property Counsel at Aristocrat Technologies, Inc., discussed her experience as in-house counsel at a large corporation and her dealings with IP issues, including trademark licensing and Internet domain name matters.

The second event, a panel discussion on November 4, 2014, featured two attorneys practicing in Nevada who discussed the impact of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the general practice of IP law, and IP law practice in Nevada in particular. Robert C. Ryan, a partner at the Holland & Hart Reno office, shared his story of personal involvement in the seminal U.S. Supreme Court case of Parker v. Flook, which he worked on while he was a law student, and discussed in detail the Court’s June 2014 decision in Alice v. CLS Bank, which has had a profound effect on patent applicants seeking to protect their computer-implemented inventions. John Brown, Of Counsel at Holland & Hart’s Las Vegas office, offered his view as an attorney who advises companies throughout their business cycles on a variety of issues that often include IP or intersect with IP matters. Students learned how the uncertainty about the effects of recent U.S. Supreme Court IP decisions affects startups, established businesses, and investors who might consider investing in IP-focused ventures.

The two events were co-organized by Associate Professor Marketa Trimble, an IP faculty member at Boyd, and the Boyd Career Development Office.

Professors LaFrance and Trimble Present at the 3rd Annual U.S.-China IP Conference

(From left) Professors Mary LaFrance and Marketa Trimble

On November 7, 2014, Professor Mary LaFrance and Associate Professor Marketa Trimble joined other IP law scholars at the 3rd Annual U.S.-China IP Conference at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. The event was organized by Berkeley Law School’s Center for Law & Technology, Loyola Law School, and Renmin University of China. This year’s conference focused on the following five topics: (1) revisions to the copyright laws of the United States and China; (2) IP issues related to the entertainment industry; (3) the role of specialized IP courts; (4) patent and trade secrets legislation and protection; and (5) challenges and strategies in cross-border IP enforcement.

The Conference brought together senior policymakers, academics, and international practitioners from both the United States and China. Among the many prominent speakers were the following IP law experts:

• Stacey Byrnes, Senior Vice President of NBC Universal/Universal Studios
• Colleen V. Chien of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Liu Chuntian, Dean of Renmin University IP Academy
• Mark Cohen of the USPTO
• Professor Terry Fischer of Harvard Law School
• Professor Robert Merges of Berkeley Law School
• Professor David Nimmer of UCLA School of Law
• Liu Ping of the Music Copyright Society of China
• Professor Zhang Ping of Peking University Law School
• Professor Seagull Song of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
• Maria Strong of the U.S. Copyright Office
• Peter Yu of Drake Law School

Professor La France was invited to present “The Future of Performers’ Rights.” In her presentation she gave an overview of the current state of performers’ rights from the international law and comparative law perspectives. She then detailed the situation in the United States and explained how current U.S. law protects the moral and economic rights of performers. She concluded with the main features of the 1996 WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty and the 2012 WIPO Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, and by identifying how U.S. law might need to be amended to reflect U.S. obligations in the international treaties.

Professor Trimble was invited to participate in the panel discussion “Challenges and Strategies in Cross-Border IP Enforcement.” Her co-panelists were three practitioners from large international law firms, two Chinese academics, and a USPTO official. In the discussion Professor Trimble commented on the practical limitations of customs measures designed to stop infringing goods at country borders; she pointed out the high volume of goods coming through centralized points of entry such as the Port of Hamburg, and the limited resources of customs offices. Countries’ court proceedings should provide legal certainty and due process, and Professor Trimble emphasized the need for finality in cross-border IP enforcement, as shown in recent complex cross-border IP cases such as Microsoft Corp. v. Motorola, Inc. Professor Trimble also reported briefly on the activities of the International Law Association’s Committee on Intellectual Property and Private International Law, on which she serves.

Professor Trimble Addresses 'International Orphan Works' on Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Boyd School of Law is very pleased to announce that Professor Marketa Trimble recently guest blogged ("The Problem of 'International Orphan Works'") on Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

As background, the U.S. Copyright Office recently extended the deadline by which the public may submit comments on issues related to orphan works until February 4, 2013. In her post, Professor Trimble explains that the Office is gathering suggestions for shaping future U.S. legislation and taking other actions to address the issues of works whose copyright has not expired, yet the owner of the copyright cannot be identified or located. Professor Trimble also notes, however, that legislating on orphan works at the national level cannot solve an important problem: the problem of establishing the status of an orphan work internationally. To read more about the problem of (and possible solutions for) 'international orphan works,' click here.

Professor Trimble joined Boyd's full-time faculty in 2010, bringing expertise in Conflict of Laws, Patent Law, Cyberlaw, International Intellectual Property Law, Private International Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright Law, European Union Law, and Comparative Law. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.S.D., 2010; J.S.M., 2006) and the Law School of Charles University in Prague (Ph.D., 2002; JUDr., 2001; and Mgr., 1997).

The Nevada Copyright Litigation Landscape (Part 2)

In an effort to map the copyright litigation landscape in Nevada an earlier post on this blog provided the statistics for copyright cases filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada in 2010, 2011, and 2012 (from January 1 to September 24, 2012). The two charts in the post show the landscape with and without the Righthaven cases - cases that were filed by a single plaintiff and that might be viewed as an anomaly in the copyright case filings for the District of Nevada.

The following two charts continue the mapping of the Nevada copyright litigation landscape by providing breakdowns for the data on copyright cases filed in the District, excluding Righthaven. The first chart shows the number of copyright cases by protected subject matter and covers calendar years 2010 and 2011 and the period between January 1 and September 19, 2012.

[Click on the chart to view a larger version.]

Among the cases are cases with ties to the local entertainment and casino industry; for example, the one case filed in 2012 that involves a dramatic work concerns the magic of Mr. Raymond Teller (of Penn & Teller; Teller v. Dogge, 2:12-cv-00591). However, cases do arise from outside the entertainment and casino industry; for example, the sculpture at issue in the two sculpture cases filed in 2010 and 2011 is the "High Scaler" sculpture - a memorial to some of the workers who built the Hoover Dam (Liguori et al v. Hansen et al., 2:10-cv-00384 and 2:11-cv-00492).

The following chart shows the statistics for copyright cases per law firm for law firms representing plaintiffs, and documents the variety of plaintiffs' attorneys filing copyright cases in the District. Most of the cases were filed by Lewis and Roca LLP (nine cases), Greenberg Traurig LLP (six cases), and Randazza Legal Group (five cases). The 24 cases filed by "other firms" are cases filed by firms that each filed only one copyright case in the District Court in the given period of time.

[The above charts were prepared based on data provided by Lex Machina, Inc.]

Professor Trimble Guest Blogs about a Copyright Case to Be Heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on October 29, 2012

Professor Marketa Trimble's recent guest blog post at Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog concerns a copyright case that the U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled for oral arguments on October 29, 2012.

Professor Trimble explains that "although the focus of the controversy [in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons] has been on distinguishing between foreign-made and U.S.-made copies, the key policy question in the decision should rather be which principle of copyright exhaustion the United States should adopt for all copies: the principle of international exhaustion or the principle of national exhaustion. ... The question is, whether the Supreme Court could both 1) abandon the distinction between copies based on their place of manufacture, and 2) make a conscious policy choice between the principles of national and international exhaustion. It might seem that the constraints of the language of the Copyright Act would preclude an interpretation that would lead to taking the two steps simultaneously."

The post is available here.

The Nevada Copyright Litigation Landscape without Righthaven

The copyright litigation scene in Nevada recently garnered attention – in fact, world-wide notoriety – in expert intellectual property circles with a series of cases filed by the copyright holding company Righthaven LLC, which was pursuing infringement claims concerning copyrights to articles in the local daily newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal. A few legacies remain after Righthaven; one is the debate about the legitimacy of aggressive copyright enforcement by copyright holding companies instead of the original copyright holders, and another is the lesson that a transfer of a right to enforce copyright is not enough, by itself, to secure standing to sue for copyright infringement.

Another legacy of Righthaven is evident in the distorted statistics of copyright litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada in 2010 and 2011. As Chart 1 below shows, the numbers of copyright cases filed in the court between 2000 and 2009 ranged between 18 and 46 cases, while in 2010 the number of copyright cases rose to an unprecedented 215 cases.

The change in the statistics caused by Righthaven is clear. Chart 2 compares the statistics for all copyright cases filed in the court with the statistics for copyright cases excluding Righthaven. The red columns are the copyright case numbers without Righthaven cases, and they document the fact that, following the surge of cases that coincided with the economic boom in Las Vegas that ended in 2007, case numbers, ex-Righthaven, returned to pre-2004 levels.

Righthaven also filed suits outside of Nevada; it sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (57 cases in 2011) and in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (one case in 2010). In Colorado Righthaven cases doubled the number of copyright cases filed in that district in 2011 as compared to 2008 and 2009 and quadrupled the number of cases as compared to 2010. However, in Colorado, in contrast with Nevada where there was a return to the status quo ante after Righthaven, Colorado continues with its expansion of activity in the copyright area as Malibu Media, LLC, has filed 44 suits in the district court in a period of less than nine months in 2012, from January 1 to September 24.

[The above charts were prepared based on data provided by Lex Machina, Inc.]

[Updated on November 2, 2012.]

UNLV to Host the Intellectual Property Conference 2012

The Boyd School of Law is very pleased to announce that the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, will host the Intellectual Property Conference 2012 on November 2, 2012.

The conference, which is presented by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Nevada, will include an opening "Year in Review" session presented by Boyd Professors Mary LaFrance and Marketa Trimble, a "Patent Topic" session by Mikio Ishimaru, Esq., a keynote address by Judge Philip M. Pro, a "Trademark Prosecution Tips" session by Paul Gast, Esq., another "Patent Topic" session by Jason Smalley, Esq., a "Copyright Topic" session by Kate Spelman, Esq., another "Patent Topic" session by Robert Ryan, Esq., and an ethics session entitled, "Don't Try This at Home: Why You Should Never Emulate TV Lawyers" by Sean Carter, Esq.

The conference, which will offer 6.5 continuing legal education credits, of which 2.0 may count as ethics credits, will be held in the Stan Fulton Building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on November 2, 2012, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Registration and other information is available here.

Professor Trimble Guest Blogs at Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Boyd School of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Marketa Trimble is guest blogging at Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

Professor Trimble's recent post, The Newest Olympic Sport: Evasion of Geolocation, characterizes the evasion of geolocation as primarily an expatriate sport; that is, a sport for those who long for their home television programming and other content on the internet that can be accessed only from inside their home country. By misleading the geolocation tools that website operators have installed, expatriates travel virtually to an internet IP address int heir home country to access their home television programs. In her post, Professor Trimble explains that those damaged by the new Olympic sport of geolocation evasion will be copyright holders who have licensed their content in a territorially limited manner. Professor Trimble concludes that although the evasion of gelocation may not immediately damage International Olympic Committee ("IOC") revenues, it may in the long run necessitate a rethinking of IOC licensing strategies.

Professor Trimble joined Boyd's full-time faculty in 2010, bringing expertise in Conflict of Laws, Patent Law, Cyberlaw, International Intellectual Property Law, Private International Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright Law, European Union Law, and Comparative Law. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.S.D., 2010; J.S.M., 2006) and the Law School of Charles University in Prague (Ph.D., 2002; JUDr., 2001; and Mgr., 1997).

Professor Trimble's Article Published in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Congratulations to Professor Marketa Trimble on the recent publication of her article (The Future of Cybertravel: Legal Implications of the Evasion of Geolocation) in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal. The abstract for The Future of Cybertravel provides: 

"Although the Internet is valued by many of its supporters particularly because it both defies and defeats physical borders, these important attributes are now being exposed to attempts by both governments and private entities to impose territorial limits through blocking or permitting access to content by Internet users based on their geographical location—a territorial partitioning of the Internet. One of these attempts, for example, is the recent Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) proposal in the United States. This article, as opposed to earlier literature on the topic discussing the possible virtues and methods of erecting borders in cyberspace, focuses on an Internet activity that is designed to bypass the territorial partitioning of cyberspace and render any partitioning attempts ineffective. The activity—cybertravel, or the evasion of geolocation—permits users to access content on the Internet that is normally not available when they connect to the Internet from their geographical location. By utilizing an Internet protocol address that does not correspond to their physical location, but to a location from which access to the content is permitted, users can view or use content that is otherwise unavailable to them. Although cybertravel is not novel (some cybertravel tools have been available for a number of years), recently the tools allowing it have proliferated and become sufficiently user-friendly to allow even average Internet users to utilize them. Indeed, there is an increasing interest in cybertravel among the general Internet public as more and more website operators employ geolocation tools to limit access to content on their websites from certain countries or regions.

"This article analyzes the current legal status of cybertravel and explores how the law may treat cybertravel in the future. The analysis of the current legal framework covers copyright as well as other legal doctrines and the laws of multiple countries, with a special emphasis on U.S. law. The future of the legal status of cybertravel will be strongly affected by the desire of countries and many Internet actors to erect borders on the Internet to facilitate compliance with territorially-defined regulation and enjoy the advantages of a territorially-partitioned cyberspace. This article makes an attempt to identify arguments for making or keeping certain types of cybertravel legal, and suggests legal, technical, and business solutions for any cybertravel that may be permitted."

The Future of Cybertravel: Legal Implications of the Evasion of Geolocation is available for download from UNLV's Scholarly Commons and SSRN.  Congratulations, Marketa!