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| + | **[http://www.daisy.org/publications/docs/soundproof/sound_proof_book.html The Soundproof Book] (5 pages) | ||
==Past courses to mine for useful content== | ==Past courses to mine for useful content== | ||
Revision as of 03:50, 27 February 2005
Notes for soctech seminar planning, Spring 2005
Ebooks: Reading, Copyright, and Digital Rights
The goal of this seminar is to provide a forum for discussing copyright and DRM as applied to ebooks.
Contents
- 1 Schedule details
- 1.1 Week 1: Intro
- 1.2 Week 2: Nature of Digital Documents
- 1.3 Week 3. Copyright of digital documents
- 1.4 Week 4. Licensing of digital documents
- 1.5 Week 5. In Libraries: "Can I check out this eBook?"
- 1.6 Week 6. Scholarly publishing
- 1.7 Week 7. DRM Technology
- 1.8 Week 8. Preservation
- 1.9 Week 9. Digital documents in international development
- 1.10 Week 10. Accessibility
- 2 Past courses to mine for useful content
- 3 Floating readings
- 4 Other notes
Schedule details
Week 1: Intro
- Discussion leader: Joshua?
- Topics:
- What is this course about, and why are we here?
- basic definitions, discussion of what attendees want out of class
- Post-Reading:
- David Levy "A Bit of Digital History" Scrolling Forward p. 137-157 (20 pages)
- Recommended Optional Reading:
- Cliff Lynch The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World (43 pages)
Week 2: Nature of Digital Documents
- Discussion leader: Joshua?
- Topics:
- basics of manufacture and distribution
- featuring codecs, The Internet, Copyright, Licensing, and DRM
- as distribution costs approach zero, what happens to production?
- Readings:
- Christopher Dreher "Why do books cost so much?" Salon.com (3 pages)
- Marshall Poe “Note to Self: Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model” Journal of Electronic Publishing 7, December 2001 (5 pages)
Week 3. Copyright of digital documents
- Discussion leader: law person?
- Topics:
- Nothing new, but harder to enforce... or is it?
- Is there any need for a public domain if I can access anything for a nickel?
- Clinton whitepaper, Berne, WIPO
- Celestial Jukebox
- Useful websites:
- Readings:
- 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)
Week 4. Licensing of digital documents
- 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)
- Readings:
Week 5. In Libraries: "Can I check out this eBook?"
- Discussion leader: Joshua? Guest?
- Topics:
- complicated and expensive reading devices
- potentially crippling legal problems
- Readings:
- David Kirkpatrick "Battle Over Access to Online Books" New York Times June 17, 2002
- KCLS eBooks
- UW Libraries NetLibrary FAQ
Week 6. Scholarly publishing
- Discussion leader:
- Topics:
- Do universities already pay production costs?
- Who needs pretty magazines when we've got arXiv.org (do the humanities)?
- Readings:
- 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)
Week 7. DRM Technology
- Discussion leader: CSE person?
- Topics:
- what exactly are "effective technological measures"?
- Is the DCMA a problem for research?
- Readings:
- "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)
Week 8. Preservation
- Discussion leader: CSE person?
- Topics:
- will those created today be around in 100 years?
- if so, how about reading those bits as an ebook?
- Readings:
- Emulation and BBC Domesday (7 pages)
- Technical Obsolescene (1 page)
- Peter Hirtle "Digital Preservation and Copyright" (6 pages)
Week 9. Digital documents in international development
- Discussion leader: Evans school person?
- Topics:
- Kahle's bookmobile, Million Book Project and others
- Readings:
- Digital Library of India Vision (1 page)
- Million Book Project FAQ (6 pages
- Rural Kids Print, Bind, and Read (3 pages)
Week 10. Accessibility
- Discussion leader:
- Topics:
- How much access should laws mandate?
- Do we need something like NLS when Text-to-Speech is virtually free?
- Readings:
- Ebooks and Accessibility (7 pages, but most can be skimmed)
- Microsoft Reader Accessibility FAQ (3 pages)
- The Soundproof Book (5 pages)
Past courses to mine for useful content
Floating readings
These are readings that haven't been matched to a date yet.
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
How many days worth of class is this?
