Tuesdays, 6-10 PM,
room 651, Fall 2004
Instructors: Howard
Besser & Ann Harris
Introduction to Moving Image
Archiving
& Preservation H72.1800
Nov 16 Copyright,
Legal Issues, & Policy (HB)
see entire
syllabus
Assignments due before class:
- Read:
- Besser, Howard. Commodification
of Culture Harms Creators,The Information Commons, New Technologies,
and
the Future of Libraries , Issue #1, June 2002, American Library
Association
- Lessig, Lawrence. Copyrighting
the President: Does Big Media have a vested interest in protecting
Bush? You betcha. Wired Magazine 12:8, August 2004
- Hirtel, Peter B (2003) Digital
Preservation and Copyright, Copyright
& Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries , November
- Bricklin, Dan (2004) Software
that Lasts 200 Years
- Coyle, Karen (2003) The
Technology of Copyright: Digital Rights Management, Lecture at
Library
of Congress (streaming video and written paper)
- Bricklin, Dan (2004) Copy
Protection Robs The Future
- Bricklin, Dan (2002) The
Recording Industry is Trying to Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden
Egg
- Bricklin, Dan (2003) How
will the Artists Get Paid?
- Coyle, Karen. (1994) "Copyright in the
Digital Age." Coyle's
Information
Highway Handbook. Chicago : ALA, pp. 96-113
- Mosco, Vincent. (1998) "Information in
the Pay-per Society." In
V.
Mosco
and J. Wasko (eds.), The Political Economy of Information,pp. 3-26.
Madison,
WI : University of Wisconsin Press
- The
Coming of Copyright Perpetuity , New York Times Editorial, January
16, 2003
- The
Eric Eldred Act FAQ
- Save
Orphan
Films
Look over:
Agenda:
- The implications of Copyright for the
creative process
- Untold
Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for
Documentary Filmmakers, Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, Center for
Social Media
- Intellectual
Property & New Info Technology, Howard's website
- Information
Commons Links, Howard's website
- Discussion questions
- Issuse of term, territory, and market
- What are some of the practices with
regard
to copyright,
ownership, licensing, and the use of "talent" or footage that are part
of the history of a particular form of production or genre of work?
- What are some of the recent or
anticipated
changes
in the legal arena that affect moving image/sound preservation or use?
- Effects of copyright on preservation
and
programming
- Avoidance of intellectual property
issues
- Fair Use guidelines
- How do intellectual property issues
affect
preservation,
access, and use of visual materials ? (e.g., the implications of the
digital
millennium copyright act?
- Complexity of underlying rights
- Other legal issues
- Policy issues
- Current Events:
- Auction
of Internet Commerce Patents Draws Concern, NY Times, Nov 16, 2004
- In
the Copyright Wars, This Scholar Sides With the Anarchists,
Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 19, 2004
- Political
Speeches and the Public Domain, National Public Radio, Nov 10, 2004
- a different way of dealing with piracy -- Cable
Pirates Thrive in Brazil; Rather than fight them, the government may
legalize them, NY Times, Nov 10,
2004
- "Disposable" DVDs
- Even
Digital Memories Can Fade, NY Times, Nov 10, 2004
- Friday Nov 19 Dan Streible,
Director of the Orphans Film Symposium, speaks on Newsreel
Archiving as Revisionist Historiography, room 656, 5:30.