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.

Diigo Reading

Diigo 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 Diigo, you can share it with a group, and we have a Copyright, Commerce, and Culture group page where you should apply to join after you create an account. You’ll also notice that our Diigo feed shows up on the upper right of this blog on each page; it may take a couple of hours to show up, but when you share a link with our group on Diigo, it will appear there.

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 at least pick a general site like Slashdot or BoingBoing which tend to pick up more stories but at a slower rate.

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