2006

Piracy and Copyright: an Ethics Lesson (5/19/2006)

The Fight for a Toll-Free Internet (5/5/2006)

Digital Dissertation Dust-Up (4/28/2006)

When Animators Attack: A 'Wacky' Web Site Has a College Facing Serious Questions About Free Speech and Privacy (2/10/2006)

2005

More Colleges Strike Up Music-Sharing Deals, Despite Lukewarm Response (9/2/2005)

Colleges Split Over Effects of Court Ruling on File Sharing (7/8/2005)

China Wages a New War on Academic Dissent (6/17/2005)

2004

In the Copyright Wars, This Scholar Sides With the Anarchists (11/19/2004)

How to Write a Computer Virus, for College Credit (1/16/2004)

2003

A Weblog Starts a Fire (11/7/2003)

Colleges' Database Dilemma (10/17/2003)

Congressman Takes Colleges to Task for Students' File Sharing (6/27/2003)

NSF Plans to Increase Cybersecurity Research (5/30/2003)

2000

Police Seize Student's Computer in Copyright Case (9/29/2000)

James Madison U. Requires All Users to Take Regular Computer-Security Course (1/7/2000)

1999

Harvard Sues 'Cybersquatters' Over Domain Names (12/17/1999)

How Forcefully Should Universities Enforce Copyright Law on Audio Files? (11/19/1999)

U. of Iowa Reviews E-Mail Policy in Wake of 'Students for Bush' Mailing (10/22/1999)

On Line, Ways to Misbehave Can Outpace College Rules (9/17/1999)

Oregon Student Is Convicted of Providing Pirated Music on University Web Site (9/3/1999)

Former Network Administrator Faces Felony Charges in Hacker Case (9/3/1999)

Goddard Employee Admits Sending Sexual E-Mail (4/9/1999)

Vermont Agency Faults Goddard for Response to Complaint of On-Line Harassment (3/26/1999)

Appeal Is Filed in Case Challenging Restrictions on Encryption Software (3/19/1999)

Southern Utah U. Student Admits Contriving Incident to Test Computer-Use Policy (3/19/1999)

U. of Alabama Becomes a Pawn as On-Line Chess Discussion Turns Nasty (3/19/1999)

A Dispute Over a Professor's E-Mail Illustrates the Complexities of Acceptable-Use Policies (3/19/1999)

Rats! Harvard Student Surrenders His Virtual Dancing Hamsters (3/12/1999)

U. of Evansville Sues a Former Professor Over E-Mail Messages and Web Pages (3/12/1999)

Utah Student Kicked Out of Lab for Viewing Web Sites Devoted to Pornography and Hitler (3/5/1999)

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Virginia Law Restricting the Use of State-Owned Computers (2/19/1999)

1998

Judge Strikes Down Virginia Law Barring Use of State Computers to View Sexual Materials (3/13/1998)

New Bills in Congress to Regulate Internet Content Are Unlikely to Affect Colleges (4/3/1998)

Court Rejects Challenge to U. of Oklahoma Policy on Internet Access (1/23/1998)

1997

Wayne State U. Bans Internet Use That Is Not Related to University Purposes (11/21/1997)

Judges Reject New York and Georgia Laws on Use of Internet (7/3/1997)

Guidelines for Librarians Cover Issues of On-Line Decency (5/23/1997)

Scholars Sue Virginia Over Law Restricting Use of Computers (5/19/1997)

High Court Hears Challenge to Law on Internet 'Indecency' (3/28/1997)

U.S. Says Indecency Law Doesn't Threaten Most Educational Material on Internet (3/10/1997)

Vanderbilt Junior Becomes a Force Against Internet Restriction (3/7/1997)

Academics Urge Supreme Court to Reject Internet Restrictions (2/28/1997)

Judge Upholds U. of Oklahoma's Limits on On-Line Sex Material (2/7/1997)

U.S. Defends Internet Law, Citing Need to Promote Education (1/31/1997)

Coalition Sues New York Over Law Restricting On-Line Material (1/24/1997)

Judge Says Cal State Campus May Not Bar Partisan Material on Network -- for Now (1/22/1997)

1996

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Internet-Indecency Law (12/20/1996)

New Group Helps State Lawmakers Tackle Internet-Policy Issues (12/12/1996)

U. of Oklahoma Revises Policy on Access to Newsgroups (11/29/1996)

California State U. Campus Upset by On-Line Politicking (11/15/1996)

Justice Dept. Brief to High Court Backs Internet-Indecency Law (10/11/1996)

Suit Challenges Georgia Law on Fraud in Cyberspace (10/4/1996)

Princeton to Permit Campaign Literature on Its Campus Network (9/27/1996)

ACLU Challenges Princeton Policy on On-Line Campaigning (9/6/1996)

Another Court Finds Internet 'Indecency' Law Unconstitutional (8/9/1996)

Site Managers Asked to Rate Their Own On-Line Material (8/9/1996)

Princeton Restricts Political Campaigning on Campus Networks (8/2/1996)

ACLU to Challenge Virginia Law Limiting Use of State Computers (7/19/1996)

U.S. Will Appeal Court's Ruling Against Internet-Indecency Law (7/12/1996)

Federal Judges Rule Internet Restrictions Unconstitutional (6/21/1996)

Foes of Internet 'Indecency' Law Predict Its Chilling Effect (5/24/1996)

Justice Dept. Explains How to Comply With Law on Internet Smut (5/17/1996)

Lawsuit in New York Challenges Limits on Internet 'Indecency' (5/10/1996)

U. of Okla. Sued for Blocking Sexually Explicit Material (5/10/1996)

Internet Caucus to Educate Federal Lawmakers About Cyberspace (5/3/1996)

New Law in Georgia Could Make Common On-Line Practices Illegal (5/3/1996)

Court Hearing Stirs Fears of Censorship of Colleges' Web Sites (4/26/1996)

Court Considers Legality of Ban on Internet 'Indecency' (4/12/1996)

New Coalition Sues Over Law Barring Indecent Internet Material (3/8/1996)

U.S. to Delay Prosecuting for 'Offensive' Material on Internet (3/1/1996)

Judge Blocks Enforcement of Only One Internet Restriction (2/23/1996)

Winthrop U. Plans Stricter Computer Policy, Upsetting Users (2/23/1996)

New Anti-Indecency Law Prompts Internet Protests, ACLU Lawsuit (2/16/1996)

Colleges Weigh Impact of Proposed Ban on Internet 'Indecency' (1/5/1996)

1995

Colleges Criticized for Response to Offensive On-Line Speech (12/1/1995)

Misogynistic E-Mail Sparks Controversy on Cornell Campus (11/24/1995)

Legal Restrictions on Computer Networks Sprout Among States (6/30/1995)

Internet-Obscenity Bill Vetoed in Washington State (5/26/1995)

Anti-Obscenity Bill in Washington State Might Threaten Internet (5/12/1995)

2006

Can Blogging Derail Your Career? (7/28/2006)

On Campus Web-Monitoring Rules, Colleges and the FCC Have a Bad Connection (2/10/2006)

2005

Thou Shalt Not Pirate Thy Neighbor's Songs (12/2/2005)

2004

Controversial Weblogs and Academic Freedom (1/16/2004)

1997

The Laws of Cyberspace: What Colleges Need to Know, by Steven McDonald (10/31/1997)

1996

Democracy and Decency on the Internet, by Richard A. Detweiler(6/28/1996)

1998

A ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upholding a lower-court decision that a University of Oklahoma professor lacked standing to challenge university restrictions on access to sex-oriented material on the Internet. (1/19/1998)

• The lower-court decision (1/29/1997)

• The lawsuit filed against David Boren, the president of the University of Oklahoma (5/1/1996)

1997

A federal court ruling that a New York State law that would make it illegal to distribute material deemed "harmful to minors" on the Internet is unconstitutional (6/23/1997)

The Supreme Court's ruling striking down the Communications Decency Act, by Justice John Paul Stevens (6/26/1997)

• The full text of the law (1/20/1997)

A federal court ruling that a Georgia law that would ban the use of pseudonyms on the Internet is unconstitutional (6/23/1997)

• The opinion, concurring in part and dissenting in part, by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (6/26/1997)

A brief filed by a group led by the American Library Association, asking the Supreme Court to uphold a federal court's ruling that declared the act unconstitutional (3/13/1997)

A brief filed by a coalition of individuals and organizations led by the American Civil Liberties Union (3/13/1997)

A brief filed by a group of 25 individuals and organizations led by the American Association of University Professors (3/13/1997)

A brief filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Student Press Law Center (3/13/1997)

A brief filed by the Department of Justice in defense of the act (3/10/1997)

1996

A brief by the Clinton Administration urging the Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a federal court ruling throwing out the indecency law(10/7/1996)

A letter from the American Civil Liberties Union to Princeton University on the university's policy on the use of its computer network (8/16/1996)

The ruling in which a three-judge panel of a federal court found the act to be unconstitutional (6/12/1996)

A brief filed with the three-judge panel by a group of literary and artistic groups(5/20/1996)

A letter from the Justice Department defining how Internet-content providers could protect themselves from prosecution under the act (5/10/1996)

The full text of a lawsuit filed by 23 companies and organizations seeking to overturn provisions of the act that would make it illegal to send "indecent" material over computer networks (2/27/1996)

A federal judge's decision on a request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and others for a temporary restraining order against enforcement provisions of the act(2/16/1996)

A brief filed by the Justice Department in response to the American Civil Liberties Union's brief seeking a temporary restraining order against provisions of the act (2/16/1996)

A brief filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups asking a federal judge to delay enforcement of the act (2/12/1996)

A brief from the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit challenging provisions of the act, which was signed by President Clinton on February 8, 1996 (2/9/1996)

The text of the law's "indecency" provisions (2/8/1996)