Under each class day are the articles and assignments that you will be expected to have read or completed by that day .

Class 0: January 19th – Introductions & Overview

Class 1: January 21st – The Issues

• Setup blog account, login, post a link to delicious.
• Paul Goldstein, Copyright’s Highway, Chapter 1
• John Perry Barlow, The Economy of Ideas
• Mark Helprin, A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?
• Optional: Lawrence Lessig, The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin’s Digital Barbarism)

Class 2: January 26th – 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: January 28th – 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 2nd – 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 4th – 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)
• Joy Garnett, Steal this Look

Class 6: February 9th – 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 11th – U.S. Copyright Law: Ownership and Terms

• 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

Class 8: February 16th – 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 9: February 18th – Internet and Copyright Issues

• John Perry Barlow, The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
• Jessica Litman, The Exclusive Right to Read
• Jane Gisburg, How Copyright Got a Bad Name For Itself

Class 10: February 23rd – Wikipedia and Peer Production

• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: Chapter 12
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia: Conflict of Interest
• Wikimedia Blog: A quick update on flagged revisions
• Eric Goldman, Wikipedia’s Labor Squeeze and its Consequences
• Wikimedia Blog, Protecting the public domain and sharing our cultural heritage

Class 11: February 25th –  Copyright Criminals with guests Tomek Gross (of Dujeous) and Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Midterm Paper Due
• Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod, Copyright Criminals

Class 12: March 2nd – 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

Class 13: March 4th – DRM & Antitrust Law

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

Class 14: March 9th – Diebold & Free Culture

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

Class 15: March 11th – “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)
• Jonas Andersson, For the Good of the Net: The Pirate Bay as a Strategic Sovereign

Class 16: March 23rd – 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 17: March 25th – 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 18: March 30th – 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 1st – WIPO, Globalization and Traditional Knowledge

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

Class 20: April 6th – Treatment for Topic Due; Mini-presentations

Class 21: April 8th – Looking Forward: Copyright Reform

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

Class 22: April 13th – Looking Forward: New Business Models

Class 23: April 15th – Google Book Search Settlement

Class 24: April 20th – Presentations

Trent Reznor And The Formula For Future Music Business Models