Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Politics of Piracy (Kevin Gorman and Katie Gilmore)

Course description

The online counterpart to the Politics of Piracy decal at UC Berkeley. Convening in 136 Barrows on Tuesdays 5p-6:30p. This decal deals with issues of digital piracy and piracy of intellectual property.

The course facilitator is Angelica Tavella (angmew@berkeley.edu)



Instructor and Ambassadors

Instructor
Angelica Tavella
Campus Ambassadors
Online Ambassadors


Schedule

Readings due on that date.

Week and DateTopicReading and Response
1IntroductionNone required
2WikipediaNone required
3What is piracy?Free Culture
4What is copyright?Copyright
5Fair use and copyleftFairuse
6Wikipedia project sessionMidterm
7Collaborative CultureCollab
8MidtermTBA
9P2P technology (first week after break)P2P
10Digital Rights ManagementDRM
11Precursors to WikipediaPrecursors to Wikipedia
12Limits of Intellectual PropertyLimits of IP
13DeviantARTDeviantART
14Gonna be fun!TBA

Current events sign-up

Everyone presents at least once.

WeekPresenter 1Articles 1Presenter 2Articles 2
1Katie GilmoreMegaupload/UMG
2Kevin GormanSOPA/PIPAExampleExample
3Katie GilmoreThe Pirate Bay shuts down for goodExampleExample
4Charlotte HryseRallies against ACTA in EuropeExampleExample
5ExampleExampleExampleExample
6Rachel Sutton"How Piracy Built the U.S. Publishing Industry"
7ExampleExampleExampleExample
8ExampleExampleExampleExample
9ExampleExampleExampleExample
10Conrad"Viacom v. YouTube Ruling"ExampleExample
11Angelica"French P-2-P Law"Evelyn"MegaUpload's Server May Be Sued"
12ExampleExampleExampleExample
13ExampleExampleExampleExample
14Ethan OksenPiracy vs. PrivacyExampleExample
15Albert Zhang"Google joins the lobbying elite with record spending on lawmakers in 2012"
16Lesley[1]

Students

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