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Critical Information Studies: Intellectual Property and the Information Society > Syllabus

Critical Information Studies: Intellectual Property and the Information Society Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction:
02/08/05 -

What is information? What is "information studies?"


Week 2: The Information Age?
02/09/05 -

What just happened? What has changed?


Week 3: Market fundamentalism considered.

Week 4: Technofundamentalism considered
02/11/05 -

What is technological determinism? What are its temptations and problems?


Week 5: Technolibertarianism and "Code as Law."
02/12/05 -

Week 6 Introduction to Copyright
02/13/05 -

Week 7: Advanced copyright issues.
02/14/05 -

The Digital Rights Management debate and the demise of "free culture."

Readings / Resources


Week 8:The Copyright Crisis?
02/15/05 -

Week 9: Technocopyright and the Global Copyright Crisis.
02/16/05 -

What is real piracy?


Week 10: Global information policy.
02/17/05 -

Week 11: The Promise of Free and Open Source
02/18/05 -

How free is free? Open Source as a business model


Week 12: The Patent Paradoxes.
02/19/05 -

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