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*Are these ebooks? (Why or why not?)
**British Library [http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/lindis.html Lindisfarne Gospels] Illuminated manuscript written c.700 C.E.
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**[http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/lindis.html Lindisfarne Gospels] via British Library (Illuminated manuscript written c.700 C.E.)
**Neal Stephenson [http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html In the Beginning was the Command Line] 150 pages in plain text
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**[http://print.google.com/print?id=OGB8CoKSzYoC The Internet Galaxy] / Manuel Castells via Google Print
**Lessing [http://free-culture.org/freecontent/ Free Culture] 350-page PDF with bookmarks
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**[http://free-culture.org/freecontent/ Free Culture] / Lawrence Lessing 350-page PDF with bookmarks
**Norm Walsh [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/docbook.html DocBook: The Definitive Guide] 652 pages in HTML
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**[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14721 Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865]] via Gutenberg Project
**Gutenberg Project [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14721 Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865]]
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**[http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html In the Beginning was the Command Line] / Neal Stephenson (150 pages in plain text)
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**[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/docbook.html DocBook: The Definitive Guide] / Norm Walsh  (652 pages in HTML)
 
**[http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search~/a?netlibrary NetLibrary books from UW Libraries]
 
**[http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search~/a?netlibrary NetLibrary books from UW Libraries]
 
**Anything on [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0740747886/ an Amazon.com item page]
 
**Anything on [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0740747886/ an Amazon.com item page]

Revision as of 05:55, 3 March 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.

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:

Week 2: The Basic Framework

Week 3. Copyright of digital documents

Week 4. Licensing of digital documents

Week 5. In Libraries: "Can I check out this eBook?"

Week 6. Scholarly publishing

Week 7. DRM Technology

Week 8. Preservation

Week 9. Digital documents in international development

Week 10. Accessibility

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?