LIS3353 - Technologies for Information Professionals

Assignment I


The official syllabus is available within Canvas and elsewhere; but About the Class is probably more useful to you.


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Week 7 - Freely Available Information



The basics:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190320125534/https://www.gameacademy.com/the-four-types-of-intellectual-property-protection/ (ADA-Archival link)



https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/27/theres-endless-choice-but-youre-not-listening-fans-quitting-spotify-to-save-their-love-of-music?utm_source=pocket-newtab (ADA-Archival link)


CURRENT:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/stable-diffusion-copyright-lawsuits-could-be-a-legal-earthquake-for-ai/ (ADA-Archival link)


https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/streaming-libraries-dvds-blu-rays.html (ADA-Archival link)


https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down (ADA-Archival link)
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/why-sci-hub-matters/ (ADA-Archival link)


https://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/http://computationalculture.net/article/book-piracy-as-peer-preservation
https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/15/lets-compete-on-innovation/ (ADA-Archival link)


https://www.eff.org/wp/unfiltered-how-youtubes-content-id-discourages-fair-use-and-dictates-what-we-see-online (ADA-Archival link)


Piracy?
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537 (ADA-Archival link)




Browse : http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html
(Take special note of the "fifth" fair use factor)
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/10/07/fair-use-decided-who-has-most-money (ADA-Archival link)


TRADEMARK


https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbaker/2022/07/28/penn-state-trademark-case-produces-potential-problems-for-sport-teams-and-merchandisers/?sh=3e451e7a23f6



GNU GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt (ADA-Archival link)
https://opensource.com/article/17/9/open-source-licensing (ADA-Archival link)


https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23617624/pluto-tv-dmca-mpa-github-playlists (ADA-Archival link)



Week 6 - Free (and Open Source) Software



https://www.linux.com/what-is-linux/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://opensource.com/resources/linux (ADA-Archival link)


https://lifehacker.com/tech/self-host-apps (ADA-Archival link)


https://www.hacktivate.app/why-teach-kids-to-hack (ADA-Archival link)
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine/ (ADA-Archival link)



For the Practical ☺
https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2016/07/bash-salaries.aspx (ADA-Archival link)
https://alexpetralia.com/posts/2017/6/26/learning-linux-bash-to-get-things-done (ADA-Archival link)



https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/what-is-bash-used-for/ (ADA-Archival link)


Prior Readings



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