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

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?