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Week 05: Copyright
September 19th, 2009 by Amanda French

Week 5: Copyright and Intellectual Property

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Readings

Vaidhyanathan, Siva. 2001. Copyrights and copywrongs: the rise of intellectual property and how it threatens creativity. New York: New York University Press.

“Owning the Past” in Cohen, Daniel J., and Roy Rosenzweig. 2006. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/.

“Intermediation and Its Malcontents” in Siemens, Ray, John Unsworth, and Susan Schreibman. 2004. Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). Hardcover. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional, December. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.

Rosenzweig, Roy. 2005. Should Historical Scholarship Be Free? AHA Perspectives. http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/2.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2002. Free Culture. O’Reilly Open Source Conference. http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html.

OPTIONAL: Townsend, Robert B. “Mission, Media, and Risk: The American Historical Association Online.” Perspectives on History (December 2008). http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2008/0812/0812aha2.cfm

Assignments

Post a discussion question to the course blog.

Explore Stanford’s Fair Use site at http://fairuse.stanford.edu/charts_tools/

Find printed primary and secondary sources available in the New York area related to your topic. Determine whether or not you can digitize these sources and use them in an online archive. Find some existing online resources and determine whether you can legally reproduce them online.

Continue compiling your annotated bibliography. Make sure you weed out sources of lesser value or importance.


One Response  
  • Paula Wagner writes:
    October 7th, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Lessig, Rosenzweig/Cohen and Jensen articles present a continuum of activism regarding the legal regulation of the digital “cultural commons” with Lessig the most radical and, perhaps, Jensen the most measured. All three see the need for digital copyright/patent reform and that digital users must be participants in this reform (or revolutionary) movement. Rosenzweig and Cohen suggest that the individual push the limits of the copyright laws when publishing online as a way to create new interpretations of regulatory laws.

    Lessig’s arguments that regulation thwart creativity and innovation cannot be denied and the work of EFF has been extremely important to the ‘liberation’ of the digital sphere. My question is how do we integrate the ideas of Lessig into our day to day digital encounters (creations)?
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