LIS5411 - Introduction to Information Policy
You may also browse Older Readings , but those should be treated as tentative. See you in class!
Week 9 - FAI Continued
Review last week (especially everything after the basics)
https://www.bakerdonelson.com/supreme-court-denies-certiorari-in-thaler-v-perlmutter-ai-cannot-be-an-author-under-the-copyright-act (ADA-Archival link)
https://legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-blog/the-bartz-v-anthropic-settlement-understanding-americas-largest-copyright-settlement/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/business-law-today/2026-september/thomson-reuters-v-ross-one-year-later/
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/streaming-libraries-dvds-blu-rays.html (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23617624/pluto-tv-dmca-mpa-github-playlists (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)
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/24/everything-not-mandatory/#is-prohibited (ADA-Archival link)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/stable-diffusion-copyright-lawsuits-could-be-a-legal-earthquake-for-ai/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240117023143/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/22/who-owns-this-sentence-a-history-of-copyrights-and-wrongs-david-bellos-alexandre-montagu-book-review (ADA-Archival link)
Week 8 - Freely Available Information
The Basics:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191004011643/https://www.gameacademy.com/the-four-types-of-intellectual-property-protection/ (ADA-Archival link)
TRADE SECRET
https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/05/articles/the-law/for-non-lawyers/iron-mans-suit-isnt-patented-its-a-trade-secret-seriously/ (ADA-Archival link)
TRADEMARK
https://modernsociety.fandom.com/wiki/Trademark_law (ADA-Archival link)
PATENT LAW
https://www.upcounsel.com/patent-law (ADA-Archival link)
COPYRIGHT
https://cyber.harvard.edu/property/library/copyprimer.html (ADA-Archival link)
Alternate Modes
COMPULSORY LICENSING?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_licensing (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/music-copyright-compulsory-cover-license.html (ADA-Archival link)
Orphan Works
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_work (ADA-Archival link)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/10/orphan-works-copyright-reform-fails-in-wake-of-bailout-bid/ (ADA-Archival link)
Piracy?
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537 (ADA-Archival link)
DMCA (as a model for prediction of consequences)
https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/files/dmcapdf.pdf (skim for pertinent info)
https://www.wired.com/2008/10/ten-years-later/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2014.pdf
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://qz.com/981029/a-federal-court-has-ruled-that-an-open-source-license-is-an-enforceable-contract/ (ADA-Archival link)
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