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

Week 1: Introduction

 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)

Week 2: What is Piracy?

 * In class
 * Logistics
 * Introduction to Using Wikipedia and Class Wiki Page
 * Short Lecture on the meaning and history of piracy.
 * Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet


 * Assignments
 * Complete the Wikipedia online training for students.
 * Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * John N. Berry, “The Real Purpose of Copyright”, Library Journal Archive, 2000.
 * Richard Stallman, “Misinterpreting Copyright-A Series of Errors”, Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman.

Week 3: What is Copyright?

 * Assignments:
 * Complete the Wikipedia online training for students.
 * Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * John N. Berry, “The Real Purpose of Copyright”, Library Journal Archive, 2000.
 * Richard Stallman, “Misinterpreting Copyright-A Series of Errors”, Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman.
 * Week 3 assignment discussion page


 * Suggested Reading:
 * “AGCOM Sector Inquiry on Copyright” Section 2.1 (pg 30), link can be found on class website.

Week 4: Copyleft and Open Licensing

 * Readings
 * “What is Copyleft?” GNU Project- Free Software Foundation
 * "Guide to Open Licensing” Knowledge Foundation.
 * Creative Commons “Share Alike(SA)” Licensing


 * Suggested Reading
 * GNU’s Bulletin, vol. 1 no. 5 – First appearance of article on "What is copyleft?”

Week 4 assignment

Week 5: Discuss and present ideas for Contribution to the World (Wide Web) assignment

 * In class
 * Discuss the range of topics students will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them for the semester-long Wikipedia project (unless working on a previously discussed project).

Week 5 assignment

Week 6: Digital Rights Management and DMCA

 * Reading
 * “DMCA”, EFF.
 * Pamela Samuelson, [Http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/fincrypt2.pdf “Toward More Sensible Anti-Circumvention Regulation”], UC Berkeley.
 * 121011/ “‘Online Thug’ DMCAs Critic’s Site Off The Internet Over 16-Word Quote” TorrentFreak.


 * Suggested Reading
 * “AGCOM Sector Inquiry on Copyright”, Section 2.2 (pg 31-33).

Week 6 assignment

Week 7: Musical Piracy and P2P Technology

 * Reading:
 * Adrian Johns, “History of Musical Piracy and P2P Technology”, Pop Music Pirate Hunters.
 * Lev Grossman, [http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2032304_2032746_2032903,00.html “The Men Who Stole The World”.


 * Suggested Reading:
 * “How the Internet Works” (especially the short section on P2P).
 * This Film, "Steal This Film" is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property and was a talking point in the British Documentary Festival.

Week 7 assignment

Week 8: Open Access

 * Reading
 * Peter Suber, “Open Access Overview”.
 * Micheal Eisen, a-short-summary/ “Open Access: A Short Summary”


 * Handouts: “Uploading images” and “Evaluating Wikipedia article quality” (handed out originally in week 2)

Week 8 assignment

Week 9: Collaborative Culture

 * Assignments:
 * Watch “Clay Shirky- "Institutions vs Collaboration”

Week 9 assignment

Week 10: Precursors to Wikipedia and Early Collaborative Culture

 * Reading
 * Joseph Reagle, “The Pursuit of the Universal Encyclopedia- Ch 2” Good Faith Collaboration.

Week 10 assignment

Week 11: Guest Speaker, TBA
Week 11 assignment

Week 12: Conceptions of Content Theft

 * Reading:
 * Lawrence Liang and Achal Prabhala, “Reconsidering the Pirate Nation” Journal of Alternative Law Forum.

Week 12 assignment

Week 13: Rethinking the Future of Music and the Entertainment Industry

 * Reading:
 * Rethinking Music: A Framing Paper, Berkman Center at Harvard University

Week 13 assignment

Week 14: Wikipedia Project Final Presentations
Week 14 assignment

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