Syllabus
Texts:
Séan
Burke, Authorship: From Plato to the Post-Modern
Jessica
Litman, Digital Copyright
Lawrence
Lessig, Free Culture
Adam
Thierer and Wayne Crews, Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual
Property in the Information Age
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs
Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Anarchist in the Library
Note: While there is no “coursepack” for
this class, please budget up to $20 for photocopies/printouts of
additional materials, which will be assigned as the course develops.
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January
18 |
The
Dawn of Intellectual Property; Gorgias' Encomium
of Helen |
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January
20 |
Ancient
Authors? Authorship, ix-23, Plato's Phaedrus. |
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January
25 |
Quintilian,
selections from Institutes
of Oratory II; John Logie, "'I Have No Predecessor
to Guide My Steps': Quintilian and the Roman Construction of
Authorship" (via e-mail) |
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January
27
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The Rise
of the Romantic Author. Authorship, 23-62, Martha
Woodmansee, "The
Genius and the Copyright."; Introduce Monitoring, Final
Projects |
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February
1 |
Early
20th Century Theories of Invention, Authorship, 65-80,
90-100; Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel" (handout) |
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February
3
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Post-Structuralist
Criticism of the Author. Authorship, 108-130, 223-276. |
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February
8 |
Barthes, "The
Death of the Author" and Foucault, "What is an
Author?" |
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February
10
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Feminist
Critique of Authorship. Authorship, 143-212 |
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February
15 |
Hélene
Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa," (handout) Kathy Acker, "Humility" (handout) |
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February
17
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WEEK
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February
22 |
Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights
and Copywrongs, v-116. |
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February
24
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Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights
and Copywrongs, 117-189. |
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March
1 |
Litman, Digital
Copyright, 7-100 |
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March
3
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Litman, Digital
Copyright, 101-195 |
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WEEK
8
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March
8 |
Copy
Fights, Part I |
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March
10
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Copy
Fights, Part II "Updating Copyright" |
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March
15 |
SPRING |
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March
17
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BREAK! |
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WEEK
10
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March
22 |
Copy
Fights, Part III "The Digital Millennium Copyright
Act" |
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March
24
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Copy
Fights, Part IV"Digital Rights Management" |
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March
29 |
John
Perry Barlow, "The
Economy of Ideas", "The
Next Economy of Ideas" |
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March
31
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Lessig, Free
Culture, xiii-81
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WEEK
12
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April
5 |
Lessig, Free
Culture, 83-173 |
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April
7
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Lessig, Free
Culture, 177-306
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April
12 |
Vaidhyanathan, Anarchist, ix-95 |
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April
14
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Vaidhyanathan, Anarchist, 97-195
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14
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April
19 |
P3
Conference featuring Siva Vaidhyanathan |
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April
21
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Dealer's
Choice: Kennedy ("Hail") |
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WEEK
15
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April
26 |
Dealer's
Choice: Ward (Eilenberg, "Romanticism
and the Law");
Taylor (Boyle, "The
Second Enclosure Movement" Part II) |
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April
28 |
DRAFT WORKSHOP |
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16
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May
3 |
Dealer's
Choice (Tschider, Patterson, TBD) |
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May
5
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FINAL
PROJECTS DUE; Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" |
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