TIME: Tuesday/Thursday 2-4pm
PLACE: 45 Russell Square
FULFILLS: Gen Ed Sector IV (Humanities and Social Science) & English Major Sectors 1 (theory) and 6 (20thC)
REQUIRED TEXT: Decherney, Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet
ASSIGNMENTS:
1) Active class participation and in-class presentations on fair use and your reserach project (30 points).
2) Weely Response Papers (30 points). Email a 250-word response to the week’s readings. Due by noon on Mondays.
3) A 3000-word research paper on an approved topic emailed as a PDF by midnight (in whatever time zone you are in) August 12. (40 points)
SYLLABUS
June 21) What is Copyright?
June 23) Shakespeare and Early Copyright History
Thomas Jefferson letter to Isaac McPherson
Lewis Hyde, “What is a Commons?”
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture, ch. 6
June 28) Fair Use and Fair Dealing
David Cameron, Silicon Roundabout Speech
video: YouTube Copyright School
June 30) Moral Rights and Socialist Authors Rights
Amy Adler, “Against Moral Rights”
July 5) New Media and Piracy
Decherney 1, 2, 5
Adrian Johns, “The Great Oscillation Wars”
Burrow-Giles v. Sarony (1884) [Oscar Wilde]
July 7) no class
July 12) Inns of Court tour (meet at Chancery Lane Underground Station)
July 14) Fans, Characters, and Publicity
Henry Jenkins, “Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars”
Lucasfilm v Ainsworth (summary)
July 19) Yoga, Tattoos, and Others Self-Regulating Communities [meet at National Theatre]
Raustiala and Sprigman, “Knockoffs and Fashion VIctims” & “Can you Copyright a Tattoo?”
Fair Use Presentations
July 21) Openness
John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
Decherney on Mein Kampf and ‘Happy Birthday’
UK Pirate Party Manifesto (2010)
Peter Decherney 