Copyright Law

Rimmer, Matthew. Digital Copyright and the Consumer Revolution: Hands Off My Ipod. Edward Elgar, 2007.

Gillespie, Tarleton. Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture. Cambridge: MIT P, 2007.

Samuelson, Pamela. "DRM {AND, OR, VS.} THE LAW." Communications of the ACM 46 (2003): 41-45.

Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jdlitman/papers/revising.htm#star

Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998

The law: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92appb.pdf

Digital Millennium Lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing, Interview with lead attorney: http://tcattorney.typepad.com/digital_millennium_copyri/2007/08/post.html
Digital Millennium Act on Trial: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/01/33716

The Copyright Act of 1976
The Law: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92appa.pdf

The Copyright Act of 1790
The Law: http://www.copyright.gov/history/1790act.pdf

Keyword Map

The image seen here is a visualization of the most common keywords found in our searches/appearance within resources. The size of each keyword depicts the degree of perceived importance and frequency within resources, with our project topic in mind (larger text = more important/frequent). We did not create a coding mechanism for keywords, but merely discussed each keyword and came to a group decision, thus it could be said that this map is not scientific derived.

Technology Behind "Anti-Piracy Technologies"

A Taxonomy of Methods for Software Piracy Prevention

http://www.croninsolutions.com/writing/piracytaxonomy.pdf

Protecting and Managing Electronic Content with a Digital Battery. Budd, T. (August 2001). IEEE Computer.

RIAA, MPAA Target File Swapping on Internet2

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,120425-page,1/article.html

A functional taxonomy for software watermarking

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=563801.563822

Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging

Revised Papers from theACM CCS-8 Workshop on Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management 2002

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture ... .Lawrence Lessig, Penguin Publishing, 2004.

Properties of Digital Media

Economical aspects of software piracy

http://nemrava.gasttour.cz/publikace/hp911-nemrava.pdf

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian, Harvard Business School Press, 1999. “InfoRules”

Information as an Economic Good: A Reevaluation of Theoretical Approaches
BJ Bates - Mediation, Information, and Communication, 1990 - books.google.com

Mediation, Communication and Information: Information and Behavior. Brent D. Ruben and Leah A. Lievrouw, Transaction Publishers, 1985.

Understanding Information Technology Usage: A Test of Competing Models

S Taylor, PA Todd - Information Systems Research, 1995 - misq.org

Notable Cases for Digital Copyright

Harvard Law School:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/369

Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1982/1982_81_1687/

RIAA v. Napster
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=info:6y_E8beB4l8J:scholar.google.com/&output=viewport

MGM v. Grokster
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/970000/966405/p15-samuelson.html?key1=966405&key2=4316107021&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=22349582&CFTOKEN=69638657

A&M Records v. Napster
http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/239_F3d_1004.htm

RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/property00/MP3/rio.html

Origins and History of Copyright

U.S. Copyright Office:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/index.html#circ1

Harvard Law School Article- Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/369

Copyright Clearance Center:
http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=cr10-n

Digital Copyright- book by Jessica Litman
Citation: Litman, Jessica (2006). Digital Copyright. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.

The History of Copyright from the Association of Research Libraries:
http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/copyresources/copytimeline.shtml

Book: Copyright in Historical Perspective- by Lyman Patterson
Citation: Patterson, Lyman Ray. Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968.
Link: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=a4_Mo-60HasC&oi=fnd&pg=PP7&dq=Patterson,+Lyman+Ray.+Copyright+in+Historical+Perspective.++Nashville:+Vanderbilt+University+Press,+1968.&ots=hfBMTLBH9b&sig=WeWRsepILHEcJ2eN8cH3h4pXIxE

Article by Tracy Mitrano
Copyright, Civil Rights, and Middle Age by Tracy Mitrano, EDUCAUSE Review, September/October 2003

About the Title

We devised the idea for the title, Free Mickey!!!, as play on Mickey Mouse Protection Act (officially know as the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998), which extended the length of time that an author or corporation would maintain copyright for in the United States by 20 years. Before the extension, copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship; the Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier. Disney was one of the more active of the parties that lobbied Congress in favor of extending the copyright period, which is probably because its copyright over Mickey Mouse was set to expire in the year 2000. This is the reason why the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 is also sarcastically known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.
For further reading about the act see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/eldritch/pl105-298.htm
Image: ©2005-2006, David John Goodger used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

About the Authors

Keith Bodin - is a Senior Information Sciences, Systems & Technology in the College of Engineering, is also and avid Boston Sports fan, and is excited about Copyright Law.

Scott Gorski - is a Sophomore communication major in CALS. He is also a high jumper for the track and Field team. Scott is looking forward to researching and examining Copyright issues in todays new media environment.

David Markowitz - is a Sophomore communication major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He is an avid musician, so digital copyright (for music and other areas) is very intriguing to him. Lastly, he is looking forward to researching how copyright laws/infringement impacts others in the new media environment.

Nzingha Ford- is a Sophomore Information Science major in the College of Arts & Sciences. She plays the violin and the piano, and is interested in all things about computers, but especially programming and web design. She's very interested in copyright issues and laws relating to content and content sharing on the internet.