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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
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.
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)
- skim EFF, A Better Way Forward, Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing, <http://www.eff.org/share/?f=collective_lic_wp.html>
- 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>
- Tim Wu, Copyright's Communications Policy, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 278, November 2004 SSRN link
DRM
Reverse Engineering
Anticircumvention
Notice-and-Takedown
Broadcast Flag
Trusted systems
Open Source
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