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| − | '''Ebooks: Reading, Copyright, and Digital Rights, [[soctech seminar]] Spring 2005'''
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| − | ==Schedule details==
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| − | ===Week 3. Copyright of digital documents===
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| − | *Read, prior to class:
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| − | **Peter Givler [http://aaupnet.org/aboutup/copyright.html "Copyright: It's for the public good"] Association of American University Presses (3 pages)
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| − | **[http://creativecommons.org/about/history "Some Rights Reserved": Building a Layer of Reasonable Copyright] (1 page)
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| − | **[http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1042 O'Reilly First to Adopt Founders' Copyright] (3 pages)
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| − | *Discussion leader: Ben
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **Nothing new, but harder to enforce... or is it? (The DMCA)
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| − | **Is there any need for a public domain if I can access anything for a nickel?
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| − | **Clinton whitepaper, Berne, WIPO
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| − | **Celestial Jukebox
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| − | *Useful websites:
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| − | **[http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ Copyright and Fair Use Center]
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| − | **[http://www.copyright.gov/ US Copyright Office]
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| − | **[http://www.lib.washington.edu/help/guides/copyright.html UW COPYRIGHT INFORMATION FOR EDUCATORS]
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| − | ===Week 4. Licensing of digital documents===
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| − | *Read, prior to class:
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| − | **[http://www.lib.washington.edu/cms/usageguidelines.html UW Libraries Electronic Resource Usage Rights and Restrictions] (1 page)
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| − | **Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ "Choosing a License"] (2 pages)
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| − | **Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/about/history "Some Rights Reserved": Building a Layer of Reasonable Copyright] (1 page)
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| − | *Discussion leader: law person? (Bob Gomulkiewicz? Stuart Sutton?)
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **It ain't copyright, but contract law!
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| − | **The DMCA: DRM enforcement with no (legal) exceptions for the public
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| − | **Dude, where's my 200 years of fair use caselaw?
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| − | **Licenses that "guarantee your freedom to share and change" (Free software and the Creative Commons)
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| − | ===Week 5. In Libraries: "Can I check out this eBook?"===
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| − | *Read, prior to class:
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| − | **David Kirkpatrick [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/technology/17LIBR.html?pagewanted=print "Battle Over Access to Online Books"] New York Times June 17, 2002
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| − | **[http://www.kcls.org/ebooks/ebook.cfm KCLS eBooks]
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| − | **[http://www.lib.washington.edu/ebooks/ UW Libraries NetLibrary FAQ]
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| − | *Discussion leader: Peter Cole and KCLS Guest TBA
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **library's issues to include ebooks- selection, vendors, public access
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| − | **complicated and expensive reading devices
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| − | **potentially crippling legal problems
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| − | ===Week 6. Scholarly publishing===
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| − | *Read, prior to class:
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| − | **Marshall Poe [http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/poe.html “Note to Self: Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model”] J. of Electronic Publishing, December 2001 (5 pages)
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| − | **Colin Steele [http://eprints.anu.edu.au/documents/disk0/00/00/10/32/ "Phoenix Rising: New Models for the Research Monograph?"] Learned Publishing, April 2003 (12 pages)
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| − | *Discussion leader:
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **Do universities already pay production costs?
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| − | **Who needs pretty magazines when we've got [http://arxiv.org arXiv.org] (do the humanities)?
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| − | ===Week 7. DRM Technology===
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| − | *Read, prior to class:
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| − | **[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management "Digital rights management"] from Wikipedia (currently 7 pages)
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| − | **[http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/convlit.php "Converting .LIT files for fun and profit"] (3 pages)
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| − | **[http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/20021217_eff_pr.html Jury Acquits Elcomsoft in eBook Copyright Case] (1 page)
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| − | **[http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/Felten_v_RIAA/20020206_eff_felten_pr.html Security Researchers Drop Scientific Censorship Case] (2 pages)
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| − | *Optional Recommended Reading:
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| − | **John Walker [http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ The Digital Imprimatur] (currently 53 pages, but many sections can be skipped)
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| − | *Discussion leader: CSE person?
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **what exactly are "effective technological measures"?
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| − | **Is the DCMA a problem for research?
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| − | ===Week 8. Preservation===
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| − | *Read, prior to class:
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| − | **[http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/v7_n2_feature3.html Emulation and BBC Domesday] (7 pages)
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| − | **[http://www.suzannekeene.info/conserve/digipres/tech.htm Technical Obsolescene] (1 page)
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| − | **Peter Hirtle [http://fairuse.stanford.edu/commentary_and_analysis/2003_11_hirtle.html "Digital Preservation and Copyright"] (6 pages)
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| − | *Optional Recommended Reading:
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| − | **[http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub114/approaches.html Organizational Approaches to Preserving Digital Content] CLIR (6 pages)
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| − | *Discussion leader: CSE person?
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **will those created today be around in 100 years?
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| − | **if so, how about reading those bits as an ebook?
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| − | ===Week 9. Digital documents in international development===
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| − | *Read, prior to class:
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| − | **[http://www.dli.ernet.in/vision.html Digital Library of India Vision] (1 page)
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| − | **[http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/MBP_FAQ.html Million Book Project FAQ] (6 pages)
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| − | **[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64627,00.html Rural Kids Print, Bind, and Read] (3 pages)
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| − | *Discussion leader: Evans school person?
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **Kahle's bookmobile, Million Book Project and others
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| − | ===Week 10. Accessibility===
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| − | *Read, prior to class:
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| − | **[http://www.panix.com/~kestrell/ebooks.html Ebooks and Accessibility] (7 pages, but most can be skimmed)
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| − | **[http://www.microsoft.com/reader/info/support/faq/accessibility.asp Microsoft Reader Accessibility FAQ] (3 pages)
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| − | **[http://www.daisy.org/publications/docs/soundproof/sound_proof_book.html The Soundproof Book] (5 pages)
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| − | *Discussion leader:
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **How much access should laws mandate?
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| − | **Do we need something like [http://www.loc.gov/nls/ NLS] when Text-to-Speech is virtually free?
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| − | ==Past courses to mine for useful content==
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| − | *[http://www.ischool.washington.edu/jwj/520/monograph.htm LIS 520, Monographs section ]
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| − | ==Floating readings==
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| − | These are readings that haven't been matched to a date yet.
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| − | *Are these ebooks? (Why or why not?)
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| − | **[http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/lindis.html Lindisfarne Gospels] via British Library (Illuminated manuscript written c.700 C.E.)
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| − | **[http://print.google.com/print?id=OGB8CoKSzYoC The Internet Galaxy] / Manuel Castells via Google Print
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| − | **[http://free-culture.org/freecontent/ Free Culture] / Lawrence Lessing (350-page PDF with bookmarks)
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| − | **[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14721 Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865] via Gutenberg Project
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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)
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| − | **[http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search~/a?netlibrary NetLibrary books from UW Libraries]
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| − | **Anything on [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0740747886/ an Amazon.com item page]
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| − | ==Other notes==
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| − | *assumptions:
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| − | **everyone will have at least a layman's understanding of terms
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| − | **we can come up with one good discussable reading per session
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| − | **a volunteer or assigned discussion facilitator for each session
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| − | *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
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| − | *I don't like the name either, but what does "digital word" mean to anyone? We'll deal with the misconceptions in class. :) - Joshua
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| − | ''How many days worth of class is this?''
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| − | ==Past Discussions==
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| − | ===Week 1: Intro===
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| − | *Discussion leader: Joshua
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| − | *Topics:
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| − | **What this is course about and not about, and why are we here?
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| − | **basic definitions,
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| − | **what attendees want out of the class
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| − | *Notes:
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| − | *We have a wide range of interests, including but not limited to:
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| − | -Why are people reading books on tiny screen, and how can it be a better experience?
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| − | -How will ebooks fit into the public library?
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| − | -With DRM, are we using the "hammer" of technology against a problem that isn't a "nail"?
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| − | -Several people are interested in the law, intellectual property, copyright, and fair use
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| − | -How can we deal with the very real accessibility concerns?
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| − | *Our attempts at what the definition of an ebook is based on:
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| − | -the effort it takes to produce one
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| − | -its difference from articles, news, etc.)
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| − | -the rights that come along with the name "book"
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| − | -something that it relatively static (content-wise)
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| − | -we don't know, let the experts decide
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| − | -what you do with it defines what it is
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| − | -ability to compare with others over time and/or space
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| − | -emotional or sentimental connection with an object
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| − | *Ditto, for DRM:
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| − | -any technology that treats the user as an adversary
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| − | -technological measures that give the illusion of protection/control
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| − | -an alternative to trust
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| − | -things that give personal comfort to rights holders
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| − | *Joshua's central question for the course:
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| − | <i>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?</i>
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| − | [[Category:Society and technology]]
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