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==Schedule details== | ==Schedule details== |
Revision as of 01:19, 7 April 2005
Ebooks: Reading, Copyright, and Digital Rights, soctech seminar Spring 2005
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Contents
- 1 Schedule details
- 1.1 Week 3. Copyright of digital documents
- 1.2 Week 4. Licensing of digital documents
- 1.3 Week 5. In Libraries: "Can I check out this eBook?"
- 1.4 Week 6. Scholarly publishing
- 1.5 Week 7. DRM Technology
- 1.6 Week 8. Preservation
- 1.7 Week 9. Digital documents in international development
- 1.8 Week 10. Accessibility
- 2 Past courses to mine for useful content
- 3 Floating readings
- 4 Other notes
- 5 Past Discussions
Schedule details
Week 3. Copyright of digital documents
- Read, prior to class:
- Peter Givler "Copyright: It's for the public good" Association of American University Presses (3 pages)
- "Some Rights Reserved": Building a Layer of Reasonable Copyright (1 page)
- O'Reilly First to Adopt Founders' Copyright (3 pages)
- Discussion leader: Ben
- Topics:
- Nothing new, but harder to enforce... or is it? (The DMCA)
- Is there any need for a public domain if I can access anything for a nickel?
- Clinton whitepaper, Berne, WIPO
- Celestial Jukebox
- Useful websites:
Week 4. Licensing of digital documents
- Read, prior to class:
- UW Libraries Electronic Resource Usage Rights and Restrictions (1 page)
- Creative Commons "Choosing a License" (2 pages)
- Creative Commons "Some Rights Reserved": Building a Layer of Reasonable Copyright (1 page)
- Discussion leader: law person? (Bob Gomulkiewicz? Stuart Sutton?)
- Topics:
- It ain't copyright, but contract law!
- The DMCA: DRM enforcement with no (legal) exceptions for the public
- Dude, where's my 200 years of fair use caselaw?
- Licenses that "guarantee your freedom to share and change" (Free software and the Creative Commons)
Week 5. In Libraries: "Can I check out this eBook?"
- Read, prior to class:
- David Kirkpatrick "Battle Over Access to Online Books" New York Times June 17, 2002
- KCLS eBooks
- UW Libraries NetLibrary FAQ
- Discussion leader: Peter Cole and KCLS Guest TBA
- Topics:
- library's issues to include ebooks- selection, vendors, public access
- complicated and expensive reading devices
- potentially crippling legal problems
Week 6. Scholarly publishing
- Read, prior to class:
- Marshall Poe “Note to Self: Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model” J. of Electronic Publishing, December 2001 (5 pages)
- Colin Steele "Phoenix Rising: New Models for the Research Monograph?" Learned Publishing, April 2003 (12 pages)
- Discussion leader:
- Topics:
- Do universities already pay production costs?
- Who needs pretty magazines when we've got arXiv.org (do the humanities)?
Week 7. DRM Technology
- Read, prior to class:
- "Digital rights management" from Wikipedia (currently 7 pages)
- "Converting .LIT files for fun and profit" (3 pages)
- Jury Acquits Elcomsoft in eBook Copyright Case (1 page)
- Security Researchers Drop Scientific Censorship Case (2 pages)
- Optional Recommended Reading:
- John Walker The Digital Imprimatur (currently 53 pages, but many sections can be skipped)
- Discussion leader: CSE person?
- Topics:
- what exactly are "effective technological measures"?
- Is the DCMA a problem for research?
Week 8. Preservation
- Read, prior to class:
- Emulation and BBC Domesday (7 pages)
- Technical Obsolescene (1 page)
- Peter Hirtle "Digital Preservation and Copyright" (6 pages)
- Optional Recommended Reading:
- Organizational Approaches to Preserving Digital Content CLIR (6 pages)
- Discussion leader: CSE person?
- Topics:
- will those created today be around in 100 years?
- if so, how about reading those bits as an ebook?
Week 9. Digital documents in international development
- Read, prior to class:
- Digital Library of India Vision (1 page)
- Million Book Project FAQ (6 pages)
- Rural Kids Print, Bind, and Read (3 pages)
- Discussion leader: Evans school person?
- Topics:
- Kahle's bookmobile, Million Book Project and others
Week 10. Accessibility
- Read, prior to class:
- Ebooks and Accessibility (7 pages, but most can be skimmed)
- Microsoft Reader Accessibility FAQ (3 pages)
- The Soundproof Book (5 pages)
- Discussion leader:
- Topics:
- How much access should laws mandate?
- Do we need something like NLS when Text-to-Speech is virtually free?
Past courses to mine for useful content
Floating readings
These are readings that haven't been matched to a date yet.
- Are these ebooks? (Why or why not?)
- Lindisfarne Gospels via British Library (Illuminated manuscript written c.700 C.E.)
- The Internet Galaxy / Manuel Castells via Google Print
- Free Culture / Lawrence Lessing (350-page PDF with bookmarks)
- Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 via Gutenberg Project
- In the Beginning was the Command Line / Neal Stephenson (150 pages in plain text)
- DocBook: The Definitive Guide / Norm Walsh (652 pages in HTML)
- NetLibrary books from UW Libraries
- Anything on an Amazon.com item page
Other notes
- assumptions:
- everyone will have at least a layman's understanding of terms
- we can come up with one good discussable reading per session
- a volunteer or assigned discussion facilitator for each session
- Honestly, I don't particularly like the name ebooks. For me, the term is to closely associated with a struggling publishing industry. I think this class is more generally interested in the digital rights issues, and looking to exclude visual and audio art. How about the term "digital word?" - David
- I don't like the name either, but what does "digital word" mean to anyone? We'll deal with the misconceptions in class. :) - Joshua
How many days worth of class is this?
Past Discussions
Week 1: Intro
- Discussion leader: Joshua
- Topics:
- What this is course about and not about, and why are we here?
- basic definitions,
- what attendees want out of the class
- Notes:
- We have a wide range of interests, including but not limited to:
-Why are people reading books on tiny screen, and how can it be a better experience? -How will ebooks fit into the public library? -With DRM, are we using the "hammer" of technology against a problem that isn't a "nail"? -Several people are interested in the law, intellectual property, copyright, and fair use -How can we deal with the very real accessibility concerns?
- Our attempts at what the definition of an ebook is based on:
-the effort it takes to produce one -its difference from articles, news, etc.) -the rights that come along with the name "book" -something that it relatively static (content-wise) -we don't know, let the experts decide -what you do with it defines what it is -ability to compare with others over time and/or space -emotional or sentimental connection with an object
- Ditto, for DRM:
-any technology that treats the user as an adversary -technological measures that give the illusion of protection/control -an alternative to trust -things that give personal comfort to rights holders
- Joshua's central question for the course:
Taking the current balance for books as a model, what should be balance of rights look like for ebooks and how can DRM technology implement this balance?