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Created Friday 06 May 2022
Week 14 - In the News and Wrapping Up
https://www.eff.org/cases/oracle-v-google
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf
https://www.coindesk.com/what-are-nfts
https://www.wired.com/story/my-dream-of-the-great-unbundling/
Week 13 - Hope
../LIS5411-hope.pdf
Hope.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/31/coders-of-the-world-unite-can-silicon-valley-workers-curb-the-power-of-big-tech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/nationalize-internet-net-neutrality/
https://solmaz.io/thoughts/digital-hygiene-feeds/
http://www.businessinsider.com/screen-time-limits-bill-gates-steve-jobs-red-flag-2017-10?r=UK&IR=T
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42030109
http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
And, not mandatory, but a good start:
Probably start here and rewind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCczbSF-B8#t=28m26s
and then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1s7Mo3sac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khO76Mpo9dg
Week 12 - Legal Privacy + Modern Issues
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Opinion | We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - The New York Times
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
Right to Privacy: Constitutional Rights & Privacy Laws | Live Science
The Right of Privacy: Is it Protected by the Constitution?
Privacy Paper
Taibbi on Facebook: Can We Be Saved From the Social Media Giant? - Rolling Stone
Obfuscation: how leaving a trail of confusion can beat online surveillance | Data protection | The Guardian
Snowden warns new surveillance measures will outlast the coronavirus
European Commission
Week 11 - Social Media
Social Media Is a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Mind
Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition | Facebook | The Guardian
Taibbi on Facebook: Can We Be Saved From the Social Media Giant? - Rolling Stone
As Buyers Circle, Could Twitter Be Better Off As A Nonprofit? : All Tech Considered : NPR
Facebook fake-news writer - I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me
Battling coronavirus misinformation in the age of social media | Coronavirus | The Guardian
For Rogue Twitter, You Need Burner Phone, Anonymous Email
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
RSS Is Better Than Twitter
Parler CEO wants liberal to join the pro-Trump crowd on the app
'Weaponized' Facebook fails to protect civil rights, audit says
https://www.wired.com/story/tim-wu-explains-why-facebook-broken-up/
Week 10 - Social Surplus
Weath of Networks - Chapter 1
Playing With Toys While People are Dying | by Paul Kilduff-Taylor | Medium
Online communities are the best thing about the Internet - Biznology
How the Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It - The New York Times
Teens Arent Partying Anymore
Cognitive Surplus - a more moral choice
https://onezero.medium.com/the-gig-economy-is-failing-say-hello-to-the-hustle-economy-13ae3aa91954
https://time.com/4370834/sharing-economy-gig-capitalism/
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Week 9 - Privacy Continued - Anonymity
../LIS5411-Anonymity.pdf
What Is Tor and Why Should I Use It?
This is what a Tor Supporter looks like: Laura Poitras | Tor Blog
No guarantees here, for information only: https://uglyduck.ca/blog-anonymously/
Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept | by Mark Suster | Both Sides of the Table
Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online 'Has To Go Away' | HuffPost
Estonians get to vote online
Watch how quick it is to vote in the most advanced democracy on earth, Estonia | VentureBeat
El Paquete Semanal - Wikipedia
The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of 'Friends' | WIRED
Week 8 - Intro to Privacy - Encryption
../LIS5411 - Privacy and Milkshakes.pdf
The tech
How internet encryption works | Data protection | The Guardian
Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (full version) - YouTube
TrueCrypt audit shows no sign of NSA backdoors, just some minor glitches | PCWorld
3 Alternatives to the Now-Defunct TrueCrypt for Your Encryption Needs
Why cant Apple Decrypt your iphone
What Are MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256 Hashes, and How Do I Check Them?
What is Cryptographic Hashing? MD5, SHA, and More
The Law
Right to Privacy: Constitutional Rights & Privacy Laws | Live Science
The Right of Privacy: Is it Protected by the Constitution?
Week 7 - Internet Regulation
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
The Internet: Computer Network Hierarchy | HowStuffWorks
How big telecom smothers city run broadband
A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will
Nationalize the Internet: Why the Fight for Net Neutrality Is Just the Start
Ending net neutrality will end Internet as we know it: Wozniak Copps
The coronavirus crisis proves internet should be a public utility
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210104/08093445992/could-digital-divide-unite-us.shtml
Week 6 - Telecommunications Regulation
Federal Communications Commission
A short history of the telephone industry and regulation
The Invisible Barbecue
Week 5 - Modern Issues in IP
(Lots of new material this week. My hope is to finish up IP and assign the first paper this week; thus the following are more of a "menu" for possible paper ideas rather than "fundamentals;" i.e. if any individual topic here is not resonating, feel free to simply skim and move on.)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/youtubes-new-lawsuit-shows-just-how-far-copyright-trolls-have-go-theyre-stopped
https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/news/2020-03-04-youtube-takedown
Trademark
Banksy loses battle with greetings card firm over 'flower bomber' trademark - BBC News
MOVIES
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/439759688/you-a-big-fan-of-aggressive-ip-enforcement-like
LIBRARIANSHIP?
https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/01/offline-book-lending-costs-us.html
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/why-sci-hub-matters/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down
Alternate Modes
COMPULSORY LICENSING?
https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/music-copyright-compulsory-cover-license.html
Orphan Works
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_work
GNU GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
https://opensource.com/article/17/9/open-source-licensing
https://qz.com/981029/a-federal-court-has-ruled-that-an-open-source-license-is-an-enforceable-contract/
Week 4 - Trademark, Copyright and Patent
See Trademark, Patent Law, Copyright, and "Rethinking Things" Below:
Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors - Copyright Overview by Rich Stim - Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
When Does "Fair Use" Become Unfair?
Week 3 - Freely available information
Note: Next week, we will mostly cover just the basics — and most likely only Trade Secret and Trademark. Feel free to get ahead, however.
The Basics:
The Four Types of Intellectual Property Protection - GameAcademy.com
TRADE SECRET
Iron Man's Suit Isn't Patented, It's A Trade Secret (Seriously) | Litigation & Trial
TRADEMARK
Trademark law | Modern Wiki | Fandom
PATENT LAW
Patent Law: Everything You Need to Know
COPYRIGHT
Copyright Basics
Rethinking things:
Intellectual? Property?
Did You Say Intellectual Property? Its a Seductive Mirage
Property Rights and Intellectual Property
Heavy ideas: Compare Anarchism Triumphant with Enforcing Copyright
Week 2 - Law and the 'Net
(ha, looks like the same thing happened last year)
From week 1, please review "Intro to Info Policy" and everything below "On Law"
Week 1 - Intro to Info Policy
Skim the following, these will not be officially due until week 2
The Econ I'm (not) talking about
How economics became a religion
On Econ
Wealth of Networks - Benkler
The Attention Economy and the Net
On Law
Transcendental Nonsense
The Law of the Horse
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Tentative Future Readings (these may change)
Backlinks: FSU Courses:LIS5411:Older Readings:Tentative Future Readings