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Cyberlaw and Digital Property: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition

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  • Eric C. Chaffee
  • Raymond S. R. Ku
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960 pages
Publication Date
2026-03-10
Edition
Sixth Edition
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Table of contents
Preface

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Cyberlaw and Digital Property: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition, by Eric C. Chaffee and Raymond S. R. Ku, provides comprehensive coverage of Internet law, digital rights, online speech, privacy, and emerging technologies. 

Cyberlaw and Digital Property offers a sophisticated examination of how law governs the creation, dissemination, and acquisition of information in our interconnected digital world. This thoroughly revised Sixth Edition addresses the most pressing contemporary issues at the intersection of technology and law, from platform content moderation and government surveillance to cryptocurrency regulation and private ordering online. The casebook's unique organizational framework moves beyond treating cyberlaw as merely "law applied to the Internet," instead examining how digital technologies fundamentally challenge traditional legal categories and require rethinking core principles of property, speech, privacy, and sovereignty. Through carefully curated cases, regulatory materials, scholarly articles, and practical problems, the book prepares students to navigate the constantly evolving landscape where technology, commerce, and civil liberties converge. 

New to the Sixth Edition: 

  • Major Supreme Court decisions on social media and platforms: 
    • Moody v. NetChoice, LLC on content moderation and First Amendment rights 
    • Lindke v. Freed on government officials' social media accounts 
  • Expanded First Amendment coverage including: 
    • TikTok v. Garland addressing national security and platform regulation 
    • Murthy v. Missouri on government influence over content moderation 
    • Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton on age verification requirements 
  • Enhanced Section 230 and intermediary liability coverage: 
    • Twitter v. Taamneh examining platform liability for user content 
    • Gonzalez v. Google LLC challenging immunity for algorithmic recommendations 
  • New comprehensive section on Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets: 
    • United States v. Faiella on regulatory framework 
    • CFTC v. McDonnell on commodities jurisdiction 
    • SEC Report on The DAO addressing securities regulation 
  • Updated copyright materials: 
    • Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith on transformative fair use 
    • Google LLC v. Oracle America on software copyright 
  • New network access materials: 
    • VanBuren v. United States on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 
  • Augmented private ordering chapter including: 
    • Register.com, Inc. v. Verio, Inc. on defining contract terms 
    • North Texas Preventive Imaging L.L.C. v. Eisenberg examining technological enforcement mechanisms 
  • Streamlined organization condensing historical materials while expanding contemporary issues 

Professors and students will benefit from: 

  • Problem-based learning that develops practical lawyering skills 
  • Flexible, logical organization that elucidates competing theoretical frameworks 
  • Coverage of current law and policy concerns driving future legal regulation 
  • An interdisciplinary approach that questions traditional legal categories 
  • Balanced presentation of multiple viewpoints on contested issues
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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents 
Preface to the Sixth Edition 
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Preface to the First Edition 
Acknowledgments 


1. Introduction to the Study of Cyberlaw 
2. Regulating Cyberspace 
3. Speech in Cyberspace 
4. Content as Property in Cyberspace 
5. Privacy 
6. Network Ownership and Access 
7. Private Ordering of Cyberspace 


Table of Cases 
Index 

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About the authors
Eric C. Chaffee

Eric Chaffee is the John C. Hutchins Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is an internationally recognized expert and educator in law & technology, business law, and taxation. He has received numerous awards for his teaching. A sought-after commentator, Professor Chaffee is frequently invited to speak at symposia, conferences, workshops and other events across the United States and abroad. He has lectured at institutions throughout Asia and Europe. He has been interviewed and quoted by many major news outlets.

Professor Chaffee’s scholarship examines the evolving relationship among business law, taxation, and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, digital assets, and virtual worlds. In addition to numerous book chapters, articles, and essays, he is an author of the leading treatise Securities Regulation in Cyberspace. He also writes regularly on a variety of other topics.

Professor Chaffee is actively engaged in various legal professional organizations. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has previously served as the chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Internet & Computer Law and the Section on Scholarship.

Professor Chaffee has been an expert witness and consultant in various matters, including offering testimony in high-stakes, corporate litigation. Additionally, throughout his career, Professor Chaffee has worked with tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, including serving on several boards, advising institutions on legal issues, and engaging in substantial fundraising. He is licensed to practice law in Ohio. He is also a trained Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitrator.

Before entering the legal academy, Professor Chaffee was an attorney with Jones Day, where he handled civil and criminal matters for numerous Fortune 500 companies. As a law student, he worked at Legal Aid in both Philadelphia and Ohio. He earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Raymond S. Ku

Raymond Ku is Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Co-Director of Case's Center for Law, Technology and the Arts. He received his J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law where he was a Leonard Boudin First Amendment Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and his A.B. with Honors from Brown University where he was the recipient of the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize for the best political science thesis discussing the principles of free government.

Professor Ku clerked for the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then practiced constitutional, intellectual property, and antitrust law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, and First Amendment/media and intellectual property law with Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P., both in Washington, D.C. He has taught at Cornell Law School, Seton Hall University School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and St. Thomas University School of Law.

An internationally recognized scholar, Professor Ku writes on legal issues impacting individual liberty, creativity, and technology. His articles appear in the law reviews and journals of Berkeley, Chicago, Fordham, Georgetown, Minnesota, Stanford, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin, among others. Professor Ku was the 2009 recipient of the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association's Distinguished Teacher Award and was voted Professor of the Year by the graduating class of 2009.
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Edition
Sixth Edition
Publication date
2026-03-10
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
960
LLPOD
9798894105499
eBook
9798894105475
Print + eBook
9798894105468
Subject
Computer and Cyberlaw , Business Law , Financial Institutions
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