Class 0: January 24th – Introductions & Overview

Class 1: January 26th – The Issues

• Setup blog and Wikipedia accounts, and post a link to the Diigo group
• Sign up for Wikipedia tutorials (in class)
• Paul Goldstein, Copyright’s Highway, Chapter 1
• Mark Helprin, A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?
• Lawrence Lessig, The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin’s Digital Barbarism)

Class 2: January 31st – Early Copyright Systems

• Paul Goldstein, Copyright’s Highway, Chapter 2
• William Patry, England and The Statute of Anne
• William Patry, The Colonies & Copyright
• Craig W. Dallon, The Problem with Congress and Copyright Law: Forgetting the Past and Ignoring the Public Interest , (pages 63-72 only, internally marked as 427-436)
• US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8
• Optional: Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture, Chapter 2: Founders

Class 3: February 2nd – U.S. Copyright Law: Subject Matter

• US Copyright Office, US Copyright law FAQ: Copyright in General
• US Copyright Office, US Copyright law FAQ: What Does Copyright Protect
• U.S. Code, Title 17, Sections 101, 102, 103, and 105
• Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. , 499 US 340 (1991)

Class 4: February 7th – U.S. Copyright Law: Rights and Infringement

• U.S. Code, Title 17, Sections 106, 106A , and 501–506
• US Copyright Office, Can I Use Someone Else’s Work? Can Someone Else Use Mine?
• John Tehranian, Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap
• J.K. Rowling v. RDR Books , 575 F.Supp.2d 513 (S.D.N.Y. 2008) (up to Conclusions of Law II- Fair Use)
• Tim Wu, J.K. Rowling’s Dark Mark , Slate, January 10, 2008.

Class 5: February 9th – U.S. Copyright Law: Fair Use I

• U.S. Code, Title 17, Section 107
• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. , 510 US 569 (1994)
• Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence
• J.K. Rowling v. RDR Books , 575 F.Supp.2d 513 (S.D.N.Y. 2008) (Conclusions of Law II- Fair Use)

Class 6: February 14th – U.S. Copyright Law: Fair Use II

• Jessica Litman, The Sony Paradox, 55 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 917 (2005)
• Stacey L. Dogan, Comment: Sony , Fair Use, and File Sharing , 55 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 971 (2005)
• Michael Carroll, Fixing Fair Use

Class 7: February 16th – U.S. Copyright Law: Ownership and Terms

• Choose Wikipedia article to assess, post it to Diigo
• U.S. Code, Title 17, Sections 201–203
• Cornell University, Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
• David Bollier, Viral Spiral: Chapter 3: When Larry Lessig met Eric Eldred

February 21st – President’s Day, No Class

Class 8: February 23rd – Wikipedia and Peer Production

• Wikipedia Assignment #1 due
• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: Chapter 12
• Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria
• Wikimedia Blog, A quick update on flagged revisions
• Eric Goldman, Wikipedia’s Labor Squeeze and its Consequences and My 2005 Prediction of Wikipedia’s Failure By 2010 Was Wrong
• Wikimedia Blog, Protecting the public domain and sharing our cultural heritage

Class 9: February 28th – GNU, Copyleft, and Linux (Guest Lecture by Aaron Williamson)

• Richard Stalllman, About the GNU Project
• Richard Stallman, The Free Software Definition
• Richard Stallman, Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software ,
• Richard Stallman, What is Copyleft?
• Linus Torvalds, Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
• Linus Torvalds, Black and White
• Wikipedia:Affero General Public License

Class 10: March 2nd – Internet and Copyright Issues

• Wikipedia Assignment #2 due
• John Perry Barlow, The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
• Jessica Litman, The Exclusive Right to Read
• Jane Ginsburg, How Copyright Got a Bad Name For Itself

Class 11: March 7th – Copyright and Sampling with guests TBA

• Wikipedia Assignment #3 due
• Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod, Copyright Criminals
• Bridgeport Music v. Dimensions Films, 383 F.3d 390 (6th Cir. 2004) (Parts I and II)
• Tim Wu, Jay-Z Versus the Sample Troll

Class 12: March 9th – DRM & the DMCA

• Pam Samuelson, The Copyright Grab
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, U.S. Code, Title 17, Section 512 and Section 1201
• Wendy Seltzer, NFL / DMCA saga
• Optional: US Copyright Office summary of DMCA
• Cory Doctorow, DRM Talk

March 14th and 16th – Spring Break, No Class

Class 13: March 21st – DRM & Antitrust Law

• Steve Jobs, Thoughts on Music
• Brad Stone, Apple Drops Anticopying Measures in iTunes
• Wikipedia: FairPlay
• Optional: Nicola F. Sharpe and Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Is Apple Playing Fair? Navigating the iPod FairPlay DRM Controversy

Class 14: March 23rd – Diebold & Free Culture

• Wikipedia final assignment due
• John Schwartz, File Sharing Pits Copyright Against Free Speech
• Students for Free Culture, Manifesto
• Village Voice: Code Warriors

Class 15: March 28th – “Piracy”

• Lawrence Lessig, Chapter 4 of Free Culture: Pirates
• Lawrence Lessig, Chapter 5 of Free Culture: Piracy
• Jessica Litman, War Stories , 20 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 337 (2002)

Class 16: March 30th – Open Access

• Peter Suber, Open Access Overview
• John Willinsky, The Access Principle, Chapters 2–4
• Catriona J. MacCallum, When Is Open Access Not Open Access?

Class 17: April 4th – Creative Commons (Guest Lecture by Fred Benenson)

• David Bollier, Viral Spiral: Chapter 4: Inventing the Creative Commons
• Jonathan Coulton, Creative Commons Commoner Letter #3
• Video: Wanna Work Together?

Class 18: April 6th – Closed vs. Open Platforms

• Jonathan Rosenberg, Google, The Meaning of Open
• Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, Chapter 5
• Adam Thierer, Review of Zittrain’s “Future of the Internet”

Class 19: April 11th – WIPO, Globalization and Traditional Knowledge

• Wikipedia, World Intellectual Property Organization
• Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture Conclusion
• Madhavi Sunder, The Invention of Traditional Knowledge

Class 20: April 13th – Looking Forward: Copyright Reform

• William W. Fisher III, Promises to Keep , Chapters 5 and 6
• Jessica Litman, Real Copyright Reform

Class 21: April 18th – Treatment for Topic Due; Mini-presentations

Class 22: April 20th – Looking Forward: New Business Models

• Steve Albini, The Problem with Music
• Mike Masnick, Trent Reznor And The Formula For Future Music Business Models (video)
• Andrew Dubber, The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online , pgs. 1-51, 78-96
• David Byrne, “David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars “

Class 23: April 25th – Google Book Search Settlement

• James Grimmelman, ACS Issue Brief on Google Book Settlement
• James Grimmelman, Google Book Search Fairness Hearing Report, Part I and Part II

Class 24: April 27th – Presentations

Class 25: May 2nd – Presentations

Class 26: May 4th – Presentations

Class 27: May 9th – Final Paper Due