MAY 10 --THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF CYBER$PACE
READ:
- "The Virtual Marketplace: Business Transactions on the Net" Chapter 3 in Edward A. Cavazos and Gavino Morin, Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-line World (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), pp. 33-45.
- The Gnu Manifesto
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
MAY 13 -- COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
READ:
- "Intellectual Property in Cyberspace: Copyright Law in a New World" Chapter 4 in Edward A. Cavazos and Gavino Morin, Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-line World (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), pp. 47-65.
- Barlow, John Perry. The Economy of Ideas - A framework for rethinking patents and copyrights in the Digital Age (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong). WIRED Issue 2.03 - March 1994.
- Dyson, Esther. "Intellectual Value." WIRED, 3.07 (July, 1995), pp. 136-141, 182-184
- Erickson, John S. "Can Fair Use Survive Our Information-based Future?
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
MAY 15 -- VIRTUAL VIRTUE
- "Harmful and Dangerous Words and the First Amendment" Chapter 5 in Edward A. Cavazos and Gavino Morin, Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-line World (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), pp. 67-88.
Recommended Readings and Resources:
MAY 17 -- PRIVACY, FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY
READ:
- "Electronic Privacy" Chapter 2 in Edward A. Cavazos and Gavino Morin, Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-line World (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), pp. 13-31.
- "Introduction to PGP," Chap. 1 (pp. 3-32) in Simson Garfinkel, PGP: Pretty Good Privacy.Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1995.
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
MAY 20 -- THE INTERNET AS AN ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH ARENA
- NO READINGS -- BUT BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS WHY OR WHY NOT THE INTERNET IS A LEGITIMATE RESOURCE FOR RESEARCH
MAY 22 -- THE FATE OF PRINT
- Reading from Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies
- Walt Crawford and Michael Gorman. Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality. Chicago: American Library Association, 1995. Chapter 2: "The Life of Print" (pp. 13-35).
MAY 24 -- FUTURE LIBRARIES
READ:
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
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