Week and Date |
Topic |
Reading and Response
|
1 (Jan 25) |
Introduction |
None Required
|
2 (Feb 1) |
What is Piracy? |
Free Culture
|
3 (Feb 8) |
Fair Use and Copyleft |
Fair Use and Copyleft
|
4 (Feb 15) |
Peer-to-Peer |
P2P Technology
|
5 (Feb 22) |
Early Social Internet |
Social Internet
|
6 (Mar 1) |
Digital Rights Management |
DRM
|
7 (Mar 8) |
Midterm |
Midterm
|
8 (Mar 15) |
Grokking the Torrent World |
Intro to Torrents
|
9 (Mar 22) |
Spring Break |
Spring Break
|
10 (Mar 29) |
Collaborative Production |
Institutions vs. Collaboration
|
11 (Apr 5) |
Limitis of Intellectual Property |
Reconsidering the Pirate Nation, 10 years of DMCA
|
12 (Apr 12) |
Open Educational Movement |
An Open Educational Resource
|
13 (Apr 19) |
History of IP |
The Rise of IP, and Economics
|
14 (Apr 26) |
Group Presentation |
An Endearing Video
|
15 (May 3) |
Celebration |
None Required for Celebration
|