Techreg: Syllabus

Intro: Two Faces of Copyright Control

Peer-to-peer and the RIAA's anti-filesharing campaign

• Arista v. Does 1-17, complaint
• Oregon's motion to Quash
• Northeastern's Notice to Students and the University Community: Management of Copyright Infringement Complaints

DMCA takedowns

• My First YouTube and its aftermath

Copyright and Control

• chapter 7, Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, (1999, v2 2005)chapter 7: What Things Regulate
• Copyright. If you need a refresher on copyright basics, look at the Chilling Effects Copyright FAQ; Jessica Litman's Digital Copyright is a great background on the state of the law and how we got here
• Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99 (1879)

P2P

• Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. ("Betamax"), 464 US 417 (1984) (excerpts)
• A&M Records v. Napster, 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001) (excerpts)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer v. Grokster, 545 U.S. 913 (2005), (excerpts)
  • Case excerpts and reading notes
• Tim Wu, Copyright's Communications Policy, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 278, November 2004 SSRN link
• J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark, End-to-End Arguments in System Design (1981), <http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf>
• skim EFF, A Better Way Forward, Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing, <http://www.eff.org/share/?f=collective_lic_wp.html>

DRM

• Mark Stefik, Shifting the possible: how digital property rights challenge us to rethink digital publishing. 12 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (1997) HTML
• Cory Doctorow, Microsoft Research DRM talk, June 17, 2004 HTML
• Julie Cohen, A Right to Read Anonymously: A Closer Look at "Copyright Management" In Cyberspace" 28 Conn. L. Rev 981 (1996), <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=17990>
• Jonathan L. Zittrain , THE GENERATIVE INTERNET, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 1974 (2006) <http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/119/may06/zittrain.pdf>

Reverse Engineering

• Sega v. Accolade, 203 F.3d 596 (9th Cir. 1993)
• Sony v. Connectix, 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir. 2000)
• Pamela Samuelson and Suzanne Scotchmer, The Law and Economics of Reverse Engineering, 111 Yale L. J. 1575-1663. May, 2002. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/l&e%20reveng3.pdf or http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/111-7/SamuelsonFINAL.pdf

Anticircumvention

Snow day Jan. 14, class rescheduled to Friday, Jan. 18, 2008, 3:30-5:15

Admin note: Please email me your proposed paper topics or questions about developing a topic: w.seltzer-at-neu.edu

• 17 U.S.C. 1201
• Dean Marks and Bruce Turnbull, Technical Protection Measures: The intersection of technology, law and commercial licenses, 46 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S. 563 (1999), <http://www.wipo.org/documents/en/meetings/1999/wct_wppt/doc/imp99_3.doc>
• skim Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman, The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution (2002) <http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc>
• Fred von Lohmann, MEASURING THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT AGAINST THE DARKNET, 24 Loyola of Los Angeles Ent. L. Rev. 635 (2004) <http://w2.eff.org/IP/DMCA/DMCA_against_the_darknet.pdf>

optional

• Death by DMCA, IEEE Spectrum, June 2006 <http://spectrum.ieee.org/print/3673>

Notice-and-Takedown

• 17 U.S.C. 512
• Jonathan Zittrain, A History of Online Gatekeeping, 19 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 253 (2006). <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=905862>
• EFF, Unsafe Harbors, <http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20030926_unsafe_harbors.php>
• Browse Chilling Effects, DMCA Safe Harbors

In-class readings:

• Viacom v. YouTube Complaint
• Google's Answer
• SeeqPod and SeeqPod Copyright Page

Broadcast Flag and Trusted Systems

Class Friday, Feb. 1, 3:30-5:30

• Wendy Seltzer, The Broadcast Flag: It’s not just TV, 57 Fed. Comm. L.J. 209 (2005), <http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v57/no2/Seltzer.pdf>
• Tarleton Gillespie, Wired Shut, chapter 7: Raising the Broadcast Flag
• Browse Trusted Computing Group and Seth Schoen's Give TCPA an Owner Override

Open Source

• GNU General Public License (GPL) v3
• Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (2000)
• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks, ch. 3: Peer Production and Sharing read pp. 59-67
• Lawrence Lessig, The Limits in Open Code: Regulatory Standards and the Future of the Net, 14 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 759-769 (1999)
• Follow the Creative Commons License Chooser and read the Commons Deed and Legal Code

For more information:

• Android and the Open Handset Alliance: see Google Enters the Wireless World, NYT, Nov. 5, 2007; More Options With Tomorrow's Cell Phones, PC World; Google Press Release

Papers

Final papers are due by 5:00 p.m. Feb. 23. You may send them by email to w.seltzer@neu.edu or submit a printed copy to my secretary, Rick Doyon (office 65 Cargill, in the corner next to CISP). I will be happy to comment on drafts received by Feb. 15, and email through the 22d.

For Further Reading

Books

Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2006) wiki Download PDFs

Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma, HBS Press (1997)

William Fisher, Promises to Keep (2005)

Tarleton Gillespie, Wired Shut (2007) web

JD Lasica, Darknet: Hollywood's war against the digital generation, Wiley (2005)

Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999) Code v.2 wiki another wiki PDF

Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture, http://www.free-culture.cc/

Jessica Litman, Digital Copyright (2001)

Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation, MIT Press (2005) and http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm