Prof. Tarleton Gillespie
tgillesp@weber.ucsd.edu
Office hours: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00pm, MCC 248
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From the United States Constitution... "The Congress shall have power... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; ...And... To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers..." (Article I, Section 8)
From the 1976 Copyright Act, which became Title 17 of the United States Code... "102. Subject matter of copyright: In general (a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories:
(1) literary works;(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include--
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; |
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Domain name disputes... "Dot What?", Simson Garfinkel, MIT Technology Review
Sex.com -- note: adult material! Filtering software...
Peacefire
"Censorship High", Daniel Silverman, Salon
"Free-Speech Advocates Fight Filtering Software in Public Schools" New York Times
Free Republic...
Free Republic
"Who Owns What?", from Columbia Journalism Review (corporate consolidation of media companies)
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