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 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: Nature of Digital Documents

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

  • 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?