Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of California, Berkeley/Politics of Digital Piracy (Fall 2013)/Timeline

Week 0: Introduction/What is Piracy?

 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * What is piracy?

Week 1 (9/11): Law

 * Assignments
 * "Copyright Overview FAQ" and "Copyright Protection", Stanford University Libraries.
 * Read all sections of Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries.
 * Richard Stallman, "Misinterpreting Copyright - A Series of Errors".
 * "Access Denied", The Economist, 10 January 2013.


 * Suggested
 * Lawrence Lessig, "Aaron's Laws - Law and Justice in a Digital Age", Harvard Law School.


 * Questions
 * What do you think would be a reasonable time period for copyright owners to have this exclusive ownership without trumping innovation?
 * Should copyright laws be developed based on the idea that the public "deserves to get what it wants”?

Week 2 (9/18): Privacy and Surveillance

 * Assignments
 * Laura Poitras, "Surveillance Teach-In", Whitney Biennial.
 * Julian Borger, "Revealed: how US and UK Spy Agencies Defeat Internet Privacy and Security", The Guardian, 6 September 2013.


 * Suggested
 * Secret Documents Reveal N.S.A. Campaign Against Encryption, The New York Times, 5 September 2013.
 * Glenn Greenwald, "XKeyscore", The Guardian, 31 July 2013.
 * Matthew Green, "On the NSA".
 * The Tor Project
 * "20 Things I Learned About Browsers and The Web"
 * James Rachels, "Why Privacy Is Important", Philosophy & Public Affairs.
 * Julie Cohen, "What Privacy Is For", Harvard Law Review.
 * Jathan Sadowski, "Why Does Privacy Matter? One Scholar's Answer", The Atlantic, 26 Feb 2013.
 * Daniel Solove, "Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'", The Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 May 2011.

Week 3 (9/25): Hack

 * Assignments
 * Brian Harvey, "What is a Hacker?".


 * Suggested
 * Bruce Sterling, "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier".
 * Steven Levy, "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" (Chapter 1).
 * Gabriella Coleman, "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking".
 * "TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard" (film).


 * Resources
 * "Why Hack?" Interview with Matt Senate
 * Cool Tetris Hack
 * Instructables - this is a cool website that have intuitive instructions to build all sorts of fun stuff.
 * Electronics with Arduino
 * The Creators Project- pretty inspirational videos of creative works and hacks people are doing.

Week 4 (10/2): P2P

 * Assignments
 * Adrian Johns, "Pop music pirate hunters".
 * [Project]: Brief paragraph of your topic for Project 1.


 * Suggested
 * "Defining P2P as the relational dynamic of distributed networks", P2P Foundation.


 * Resources
 * Torrent Protocol slides, by Harsh M. Tirghoda.
 * How Gnutella Works.
 * A Measurement Study of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems, Stefan Saroiu, P. Krishna Gummadi, and Steven D. Gribble, University of Washington.
 * Peer to peer networking using bittorrent - technology and dynamics, Girish Venkatachalam.
 * [http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/11/09/141594727/how-spotify-works-pay-the-majors-use-p2p-technology How Spotify Works, Pay the Majors, Use P2P Technology", NPR All Things Considered.
 * Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated), Dan Goodin, Ars Technica.
 * Copyright Alert System.
 * Has Your ISP Joined the US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme?, Torrentfreak.

Week 5 (10/9): Copyleft and Open Licensing

 * Assignments
 * "What is Copyleft?", Free Software Foundation.
 * "Guide to Open Licensing", Open Knowledge Foundation.


 * Suggested
 * Richard Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto".
 * Creative Commons website.

Week 6 (10/16): Project 1 Presentations

 * Assignments
 * Read and Peer review two of your classmates' midterm projects.

Week 7 (10/23): Science and DIY

 * Assignments
 * Michael Eisen, "The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing".
 * Ritchie King, "When Breakthroughs Begin at Home", The New York Times, 16 January 2012.


 * Suggested
 * "Notes on FASTR", Harvard Open Access Project.
 * Aaron Swartz, "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto".


 * Resources
 * Open Access Explained
 * How Open Access Empowered a 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough. Cheesy conversation between Jack Andraka and Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health.
 * U.S. National NIH Public Mandate.
 * UC Open Access Policy. UC Office of Scholarly Communication.

Week 8 (10/30): Art and Remix

 * Assignments
 * RiP: A Remix Manifesto (film).


 * Suggested
 * Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".
 * Political Remix Videos. This is a fun website to browse some great remixed videos.

Week 9 (11/6): Code and Collaboration

 * Assignments
 * Explore GitHub (it's ok to be lost)


 * Suggested
 * Christopher Kelty, "Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software".

Week 10 (11/13): Show and Tell - Innovative and Inspirational Things in the World

 * In class
 * Know an organization that is doing something really cool? Or a company that is developing a really interesting new technology? Or a person that is doing something new and innovative? This is a chance for us to share with each other some cool stuff that is going on in the world. I would recommend TED as a good place to start.


 * Assignments
 * Check-in on your topic for Project 2/Long Project

Week 11 (11/20): Democracy and Government

 * Assignments
 * Tim Berners-Lee, "The year open data went worldwide", TED.


 * Suggested:
 * Yochai Benkler, "Wealth of Networks" (Chapter 3).

Week 12 (11/27): Future and Wrap-Up

 * Assignments
 * "Peer-to-Peer Politics: Moving Beyond Left and Right", MIT Media Lab.