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)
• Crypto.

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