Interview with Chris DiBona, Part 2
Student Pierson Clair\'s final project was an interview with Google\'s Open Source Projects Manager Chris DiBona, about the mechanics and economics of open source/free software. Pierson has split the...
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Student Pierson Clair\'s final project was an interview with Google\'s Open Source Projects Manager Chris DiBona, about the mechanics and economics of open source/free software. Pierson has split the...
View ArticleLecture 14: Modern copyright 2
Modern copyright 2 Fred von Lohmann, Unintended consequences http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php Tom Giovanetti, IP Blog http://www.ipblog.org/ Coral Alliance site...
View ArticleLecture 13: Command and control dystopia
Command and control dystopia: What it could mean to live in a world of ubiquitous command-and-control devices that respond to others\' wishes instead of your own. Richard Stallman, The Right to Read...
View ArticleLecture 12: Laws, part 2
Jack Valenti 1982 Congressional testimony on Betamax http://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm Lehman Report to the 1995 National Information Infrastructure commission...
View ArticleLecture 11: Laws: How copyright and related laws get made and passed
FF\\\'s Annotations to the MPAA Broadcast Flag FAQ http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000148.html MPAA Content Protection Status Report http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/content_protection.pdf...
View ArticleLecture 10: Standards and treaties
Standards and treaties: The actions of international consortia, treaty bodies, and standards groups have far-reaching effects on law, technology and commerce. Yet the action of these bodies is obscure...
View ArticleLecture 9: Copyright and new business models (cont\\\'d)
Tim O\\\'Reilly, Piracy is Progressive Taxation http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html Debian social contract http://www.debian.org/social_contract Neil Stephenson, In the...
View ArticleLecture 8: Copyright and new business models
Internet-era businesses sometimes thrive in the face of copying. Readings include works on effective Internet-era business-models. John Buckman, Magnatunes Manifesto http://magnatune.com/info/why Neil...
View ArticleLecture 7: History of copyright 2
The history of copyright and its industrial applications. Critical readings stress the dynamic tension between copyright and technology and the way that they have co-evolved. Class discussion will talk...
View ArticleLecture 6: History of copyright 2
The history of copyright and its industrial applications. Critical readings stress the dynamic tension between copyright and technology and the way that they have co-evolved. Class discussion will talk...
View ArticleLecture 5: History of copyright 1
The history of copyright and its industrial applications. Critical readings stress the dynamic tension between copyright and technology and the way that they have co-evolved. Class discussion will talk...
View ArticleLecture 4: Present day DRMs
HDCP, AACS, Blu-Ray, DVD-HD, CPRM, Fair Play and beyond. Seth Schoen, Owner Override paper http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/NewsBruiser-2.6.1/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2002/10/16/4 Seth Schoen, report from...
View ArticleLecture 3: Use restriction
Stories of DRM breaks, from DVD-Jon and the DeCSS break against DVD players to Microsoft\'s Palladium and Seth Schoen\'s Owner Override proposal to restore control of \"trusted\" PCs to their owners....
View ArticleLecture 2: Reverse engineering
The legitimate case for reverse engineering in the academy and industry from a UCSD engineering prof whose award-winning work focuses on the use of reverse engineering in pedagogy and as a tool of...
View ArticleLecture 1: Security basics
Lecture, discussions and readings on the basics of information security, from Augustus Caesar to Alan Turing; from the crypto wars to the DRM wars. Bruce Schneier, Everybody Wants to Own Your PC...
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