USEM 26a Schedule (as of 9/19)

 

Date

Topic

Reading

Presenter

Homework

Fri 8/29

Intro

 

Pollack

 

Tue 9/2

Patent/Copyright/Trademark

PTO

Pollack

 

Fri 9/5

History of copyright

Goldstein

Pollack

 

Tue 9/9

Future of IP

Barlow

Goenka

Mandel

#1 Assigned 

Fri 9/12

Photography IP

Branscomb

Camerato

Robison

 

Fri 9/19

Work for Hire idea

Miller

Ayle

Carvel

 

Tue 9/23

Xeroxing/Fair use

Goldstein

Braver

Jin Kim

 

Fri 9/26

Video/Broadcast ownership

Branscomb

Pollard

Mandel

#1 Due

Tue 9/30

Current issue DVD/DeCSS

Sparks

Tom Kim

Robison

#2 Assigned

Fri 10/3

Music background

Ascap, BMI, SDMI

Goguen

Michaels

 

Fri 10/10

Music/Napster and spawn

Bailey

Green

Klein

 

Tue 10/14

Software Copyright?

Breyer

D Ancona

Tom Kim

 

Tue 10/21

The Look and feel Case

EFF

Jin Kim

Michaels

#2 Due

Fri 10/24

Is Microsoft a Monopoly

Spaulding

Klein

Pollard

 

Tue 10/28

In defense of Microsoft

Nichols

Doft

Carvel

 

Fri 10/31

The Free Software Movement

Stallman

Ayle

Camerato

Proposal due 

Tues 11/4

Open Source and Anarchism

Moglen

Braver

Goguen

 

Fri 11/7

ESD and ASP models

KPMG

Doft

Green

 

Tue 11/11

Digital Cash/Future of Money

Chaum/Cato Book

D Ancona

Goenka

 

Fri 11/14

Grand unification

Pollack's own idea

Pollack

 

Tue 11/18

Final Project presentations

 

TBD

 

Fri 11/21

Final Project presentations

 

TBD

Term Paper

Tue 11/25

Final Project presentations

 

TBD

 

Tues 12/2

Summary

 

Pollack