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Grading

 * 20%: Weekly Current Events
 * 30%: Participation and Attendance
 * 25%: Project 1
 * 25%: Project 2

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Project Guidelines
Project Guidelines/Ideas

Students have the option to:


 * a. do two smaller projects, one due in Week 8, and the second due the last week of class.
 * b. do a semester long ‘creative’ project. See description and ideas below:

Small Project Ideas
These should be no shorter than 3 pages double-spaced

1. Policy Analysis
A. Choose a current/recent policy/law related to the course, and make a list of who the key stakeholders are, who is for and against this policy, what are the pros and cons? There must be some sort of opinion, conclusion, and/or suggestions for this policy. -Some ex. policies may include: ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement)
 * TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership)
 * DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)
 * CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act)
 * Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
 * CDA (Communications Decency Act)- specifically Section 230
 * PATRIOT Act

B. Comparative Analysis
Is there a policy with a comparable or lack of law/policy in another country/jurisdiction. How do they differ? What are the pros and cons of each, and for whom?

C. Analyse a major governmental body or organization
Discuss the background of this group or organization (why, how, when and by whom they were formed), who is part of it, how are they selected, what is the political agenda, what purpose do they serve, what is the general public’s view of this org, where do they get their funding?


 * Examples:
 * OECD-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (USA)
 * NSA- National Security Agency (USA)
 * Global Network Initiative
 * WIPO- World Intellectual Property Organization
 * NTIA- National Telecommunications and Information Administration
 * W3C- World Wide Web Consortium
 * WGIG- Working Group on Internet Governance
 * FTC- Federal Trade Commision (USA)

D. Edit or Create a Wikipedia Article
This option requires one to make at least 3 “significant edits” or create a new page that is related to the course. Future details on what constitutes significant edits will be discussed in class. The list below includes some potential articles, but it's fine to choose something not on this list. If you haven't found a topic on your own yet and don't like any of the ones currently listed here, check back later.
 * Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
 * Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation
 * Copyright misuse
 * Lasercomb America, Inc. v. Reynolds
 * Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google Inc.
 * Berkeley Software Distribution
 * DMCA
 * digital rights management
 * RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc.
 * deCSS
 * Illegal prime
 * GPL
 * Network neutrality
 * Grokster
 * Corporate authorship
 * Criticism_of_Facebook#Privacy_concerns
 * Freedom of panorama
 * MPAA
 * RIAA
 * Audio Home Recording Act
 * Work for hire
 * Trade group efforts against file sharing
 * EFF
 * Public Citizen
 * RIAA v. Tenenbaum
 * Capitol v. Thomas
 * Crowdfunding

Semester-long Creative/Hack Project
Remember, these are rough guidelines. Be creative.
 * This project can be as big as you want it to be, as long as you are actually creating something original that can be shared with others digitally, preferably if it has some sort of social significance. Here are some very general ideas of what one might be interested in doing:
 * Contribute to an open source project
 * Create a remix of your favorite video or music clips
 * Make an educational video about something class-related (and release it under a CC license)
 * Hold a workshop on how to encrypt/ decrypt messages and maximize online privacy
 * Start an initiative on campus to advocate for something digital-rights related

Current Events
Everyone posts at least 2. {| class="wikitable" ! Week !! Presenter 1 !! Articles
 * 1 || Angelica Tavella|| How Netflix Uses Piracy to Pick Programming
 * || Jonathan Casian|| Owner of Lavabit on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov’t
 * || Jonathan Casian|| So What Exactly Did The US Government Ask Lavabit to Do?
 * || Sebastian Sadeghi || Study: Online Piracy Continues to Rise Dramatically
 * || Joseph Martin|| MPAA takes aim at Google over piracy
 * || Henry Wright|| Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet
 * || Patrick Edward O'Toole|| Dianne Feinstein on NSA: ‘It’s called protecting America'
 * || Timothy Tsao || US jails Chinese man guilty of $100m software scam
 * || Timothy Tsao || Piracy in North Korea???
 * || Patrick Edward O'Toole||National Cryptologic Museum - NSA/CSS - National Security Agency
 * || Henry Wright ||Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction
 * || Sebastian Sadeghi||List of websites Google took down last week.
 * || Sergio Gonzalez||How Cybersecurity Has Changed Since 9/11
 * || Lancy Zhang||Iranian President Tweets
 * || Derek Pierce||Pirate Bay traffic increases after new piracy law
 * || Camille Villa||You Can Now Pay for Access to JSTOR’s Trove of Scholarly Articles
 * || Nathan Kim||Closing Piracy Powerhouse Actually Hurt Movie Revenues
 * 4|| Jonathan Casian||Part1: Intro
 * || Patrick Edward O'Toole||National Cryptologic Museum - NSA/CSS - National Security Agency
 * || Henry Wright ||Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction
 * || Sebastian Sadeghi||List of websites Google took down last week.
 * || Sergio Gonzalez||How Cybersecurity Has Changed Since 9/11
 * || Lancy Zhang||Iranian President Tweets
 * || Derek Pierce||Pirate Bay traffic increases after new piracy law
 * || Camille Villa||You Can Now Pay for Access to JSTOR’s Trove of Scholarly Articles
 * || Nathan Kim||Closing Piracy Powerhouse Actually Hurt Movie Revenues
 * 4|| Jonathan Casian||Part1: Intro
 * || Lancy Zhang||Iranian President Tweets
 * || Derek Pierce||Pirate Bay traffic increases after new piracy law
 * || Camille Villa||You Can Now Pay for Access to JSTOR’s Trove of Scholarly Articles
 * || Nathan Kim||Closing Piracy Powerhouse Actually Hurt Movie Revenues
 * 4|| Jonathan Casian||Part1: Intro
 * || Nathan Kim||Closing Piracy Powerhouse Actually Hurt Movie Revenues
 * 4|| Jonathan Casian||Part1: Intro
 * 4|| Jonathan Casian||Part1: Intro
 * 4|| Jonathan Casian||Part1: Intro

Part 2: Private Company Access

Part 3: Does the Fourth Amendment Protect Us?

Part 4: Data Fuels Political and Legal Agendas
 * ||Mihaela Panayotova ||http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/03/technology/security/adobe-hack/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 Adobe Says Hackers Accessed Data for 2.9 Million Customers]
 * ||Mihaela Panayotova||Nintendo says Super Mario in-browser game 'illegal'
 * 6|| Olivia Tang-Kong|| Despite Silk Road Bust Future Remains Bright for Bitcoin
 * || Olivia Tang-Kong|| FBI Struggles to Seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Alleged Silk Road Founder
 * || Joseph Martin|| Why the Obamacare Website Was Destined to Bomb
 * || Andrea Haro|| Paying the Piper
 * || Andrea Haro|| Shockingly you can't just lift photos off Twitter and sell them
 * 8 ||Lisa Sinow || NSA spied on world leaders
 * 9 ||Derek Pierce || RIAA warns about bitcoins
 * || Joseph Martin|| The Guardian: NSA Files Decoded
 * ||Patrick Edward O'Toole|| Drew Curtis: How I beat a Patent Troll
 * 10 ||Andy Cheng|| Solved: The Minds Behind The 'NSA' Billboard Reveal Themselves
 * 11 || Camille Villa || Siding With Google, Judge Says Book Search Does Not Infringe Copyright
 * || Andy Cheng|| Russian App Wants E-Book Piracy To End, Happily Ever After
 * 12 || Patrick Edward O'Toole || James Stavridis: A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security
 * || Lisa Sinow|| Hacking is NSA's 'growth area'
 * || Aseem Singh|| Google Finishes 2,048-bit security upgrade for Web privacy
 * || Aseem Singh|| Fiber-optic cables could be the key to NSA snooping
 * || Joseph Martin|| The Guardian: NSA Files Decoded
 * ||Patrick Edward O'Toole|| Drew Curtis: How I beat a Patent Troll
 * 10 ||Andy Cheng|| Solved: The Minds Behind The 'NSA' Billboard Reveal Themselves
 * 11 || Camille Villa || Siding With Google, Judge Says Book Search Does Not Infringe Copyright
 * || Andy Cheng|| Russian App Wants E-Book Piracy To End, Happily Ever After
 * 12 || Patrick Edward O'Toole || James Stavridis: A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security
 * || Lisa Sinow|| Hacking is NSA's 'growth area'
 * || Aseem Singh|| Google Finishes 2,048-bit security upgrade for Web privacy
 * || Aseem Singh|| Fiber-optic cables could be the key to NSA snooping
 * || Andy Cheng|| Russian App Wants E-Book Piracy To End, Happily Ever After
 * 12 || Patrick Edward O'Toole || James Stavridis: A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security
 * || Lisa Sinow|| Hacking is NSA's 'growth area'
 * || Aseem Singh|| Google Finishes 2,048-bit security upgrade for Web privacy
 * || Aseem Singh|| Fiber-optic cables could be the key to NSA snooping
 * || Aseem Singh|| Google Finishes 2,048-bit security upgrade for Web privacy
 * || Aseem Singh|| Fiber-optic cables could be the key to NSA snooping
 * || Aseem Singh|| Fiber-optic cables could be the key to NSA snooping
 * || Aseem Singh|| Fiber-optic cables could be the key to NSA snooping