Reading Requirements

Articles and Excerpts

Most of the required reading for this class is available online through links from the Course Schedule page, but readings will also be assigned from three books that have been placed on reserve at the library and made available at the bookstore:

  • Goldstein, Paul. Copyright’s Highway: from Gutenberg to the celestial jukebox. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
  • Fisher III, William W. Promises to Keep: technology, law, and the future of entertainment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. (may be available as an ebook through the NYU Libraries)
  • Bollier, David. Viral Spiral: How The Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own. New Press, 2009. (also available to download)

If you are having problems accessing a reading please contact me immediately and I will help you.

Delicious Reading

Delicious is a social bookmarking site that we will be using to informally point out different issues of interest to the class.

When you post a link to Delicious, you can tag it with any word, and a feed will be generated for that word. For this class we will be using the tag nyu_ccc. You’ll also notice that our Delicious feed shows up on the upper right of this blog on each page — that’s the feed for this tag. It may take a couple of hours to show up, but when you post a link to the nyu_ccc tag on Delicious it will appear there.

My preferred tagging method is using the Delicious toolbar for Firefox, but there are solutions for other browsers and you should feel free to use what works for you.

External Blogs

I would like you to try your best to keep abreast of new developments in this field. The best way to do this is to read blogs, ideally by using an RSS reader such as Google Reader.

From the blogs below, pick a couple which you find interesting, and read them frequently. Many of them cover other areas in addition to copyright, but those other posts are often worth reading to understand where copyright fits in their agenda. You don’t have to stay on top of them all, but it’s a good idea to pick a general site like Slashdot or BoingBoing which tend to pick up more stories but at a slower rate.

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