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

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Authors

Roger Allan Ford, University of New Hampshire School of LawFollow

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.

Department

Law

Publication Date

11-10-2017

Journal Title

The Recorder

Publisher

Law.com

Document Type

Article

Recommended Citation

Ford, Roger Allan, "How the Supreme Court Ignored the Lesson of Zeran and Screwed Up Copyright Law on the Internet" (2017). The Recorder. 407.
https://scholars.unh.edu/law_facpub/407

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© 2017 by Roger Allan Ford. This essay first appeared on Law.com on November 10, 2017 and is reproduced by permission. This essay may be reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, provided that the required attribution under the license includes the information in this paragraph.