Course description[edit]

The online counterpart to the Politics of Piracy decal at UC Berkeley. Convening in 136 Barrows on Tuesdays 5p-6:30p. This decal deals with issues of digital piracy and piracy of intellectual property.

The course facilitator is Angelica Tavella (angmewberkeley.edu)

Instructor and Ambassadors[edit]

Instructor: Angelica Tavella

Campus Ambassadors

Online Ambassadors

Schedule[edit]

Readings due on that date.

Week and Date	Topic	Reading and Response
1	Introduction	None required
2	Wikipedia	None required
3	What is piracy?	Free Culture
4	What is copyright?	Copyright
5	Fair use and copyleft	Fairuse
6	Wikipedia project session	Midterm
7	Collaborative Culture	Collab
8	Midterm	TBA
9	P2P technology (first week after break)	P2P
10	Digital Rights Management	DRM
11	Precursors to Wikipedia	Precursors to Wikipedia
12	Limits of Intellectual Property	Limits of IP
13	DeviantART	DeviantART
14	Gonna be fun!	TBA

Current events sign-up[edit]

Everyone presents at least once.

Week	Presenter 1	Articles 1	Presenter 2	Articles 2
1	Katie Gilmore	Megaupload/UMG
2	Kevin Gorman	SOPA/PIPA	Example	Example
3	Katie Gilmore	The Pirate Bay shuts down for good	Example	Example
4	Charlotte Hryse	Rallies against ACTA in Europe	Example	Example
5	Example	Example	Example	Example
6	Rachel Sutton	"How Piracy Built the U.S. Publishing Industry"
7	Example	Example	Example	Example
8	Example	Example	Example	Example
9	Example	Example	Example	Example
10	Conrad	"Viacom v. YouTube Ruling"	Example	Example
11	Angelica	"French P-2-P Law"	Evelyn	"MegaUpload's Server May Be Sued"
12	Example	Example	Example	Example
13	Example	Example	Example	Example
14	Ethan Oksen	Piracy vs. Privacy	Example	Example
15	Albert Zhang	"Google joins the lobbying elite with record spending on lawmakers in 2012"
16	Lesley	[1]

Students[edit]

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