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# criminal law approaches?
 
# criminal law approaches?
 
# public policy approaches
 
# public policy approaches
 
 
 
==Sources==
 
* One or more chapters from Lessig's various books
 
* The GNU manifestoes
 
* [http://www.wipo.int/ WIPO] white papers?
 
* papers from various [http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/ Duke CPSD] conferences
 
* [http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html Artices by the band Negativland]
 
* [http://www.eff.org/IP/ EFF IP documents]
 
* '''United States government sites:'''
 
** [http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/ US Copyright FAQ]
 
** [http://www.uspto.gov/main/policy.htm US PTO public policy page]
 
* ACM public policy sources:
 
** [http://www.acm.org/pubs/property/ Intellectual Property in the Age of Universal Access]
 
** [http://www.acm.org/usacm/IP/ USACM documents]: current topics include copyright, DMCA, UCITA, databases, reverse engineering, and peer-to-peer networking
 
** [http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aacm.org%20intellectual%20property&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Google search for '''site:acm.org intellectual property''']
 
* IEEE policy sources:
 
** [http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html IEEE standards board patent committee]
 

Revision as of 22:29, 1 December 2004

Society and technology seminar ideas

At the August 6 meeting we resolved to plan a seminar (in CSE lingo, a "590", after the course number under which irregular seminars are listed) for Fall 2004 or Winter 2005.

The topic for the first offering will be the cluster of issues surrounding law, society, and software security.

Schedule overview

  1. tech intro: thinking about security
  2. tech intro: software development and software reliability
  3. technical aspects of improving computer systems
  4. law intro: contracts & torts
  5. law intro: economic legal philosophy
  6. vendor liability
  7. certification processes: products, processes, people
  8. market failures in economics of software, and legal approaches
  9. criminal law approaches?
  10. public policy approaches