Ebook seminar

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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-by-week breakdown FRAMEWORK SESSIONS:

Week 1: Intro

Week 2: Nature of Digital Documents

Week 3. Copyright of digital documents

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)

Week 5. "Can I check out this eBook?" in the library

  • Discussion leader: Joshua? Guest?
  • Topics:
    • complicated and expensive reading devices
    • potentially crippling legal problems

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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)?
  • Tech Transfer and others might be interested

Week 7. DRM Technology

  • Discussion leader: CSE person?
  • Topics:
    • what exactly are "effective technological measures"?
    • Is the DCMA a problem for research?

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?

Week 9. Digital documents in international development

  • Discussion leader: CSE person?
  • Topics:
    • Kahle's bookmobile, Million Book Project and others

Week 10. Accessibility

  • Discussion leader: CSE person?
  • Topics:
    • how much access should laws mandate?
    • something like NLS for the Blind and Physically Handicapped?

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Past courses to mine for useful content

Floating readings

These are readings that haven't been matched to a date yet.

Resources to mine for other readings

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?