Publication and Copyright - Week of October 28, 1996

Schedule

Required Reading

  1. Rights & Responsibilties, Chapter 6: Intellectual Property Protection
  2. Cavazos and Morin, Chapter 4: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace: Copyright Law in a New World
  3. Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers, Copyright Law in Cyberspace
  4. Robert Kahn and Robert Wilensky, A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services.

Recommended Reading

  1. Oppedahl & Larson Patent Law Web Server
  2. The Copyright Website
  3. Hal Varian, The Information Economy, Electronic Publishing and Intellectual Property
  4. Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure (Administration white paper)
  5. Anne Wells Branscomb, Who Owns Information: From privacy to public access, Basic Books, 1994.
  6. Otis Port, Copyright's New Digital Guardians, Businessweek, 1996.
  7. Joint Australian/OECD Conference on Security, Privacy, and Intellectual Property Protection, February 7-8, 1996, Canberra, Australia
  8. EFF "What's HOT in Intellectual Property & Fair Use" Bulletins

Questions

  1. Write down two questions to ask the guest speaker.
  2. What determines whether a work published on an Internet web site is copyright protected?
  3. How long does a copyright hold for a work?
  4. What factors determine whether a work can be lawfully copied under fair use doctrine?
  5. Which of the following could infringe copyright and under what conditions?
    1. Forwarding an e-mail message.
    2. Keying in an editorial from the Washington Post and sending it to a few friends.
    3. Keying in an editorial from the Washington Post and posting it on a web page or sending it to a public distribution list.
    4. Forwarding a WP editorial that you received to a distribution list.
    5. Copying an article on a web page into a file on your system and then putting it on your own web page (i.e., as opposed to linking to the original).
    6. Forwarding an article posted on a web page to a few friends.
    7. Printing a copy of an article on the web that has a copyright notice.
    8. Downloading Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold and then giving a copy to someone else.
    9. Creating your own web document with quotations from material on the web.
  6. Following Kahn & Wilensky, what is a digital object and a handle?