Anth 321 | Clas
311
Instructors: Christopher Kelty and Scott
McGill
New Room!-- Mech
Lab 251
T-TH 2:30-3:50
Office Hours:
McGill (Tue and Thu 4-5 in RH232);
Kelty (Tue 1:30-2:30 and Wed
1-2 in SH 580)
Syllabus {
PDF |HTML } | Music | Connexions Course |
Mailing List Tue, 13 Dec 2005
Quo Vadis? Who's walking the plank?
A Music Pirate's
Manifesto. Lots of good detail about why computer programmers hate
Digital Rights Management. The Instructors Ask: If Galen were a rock
band, what side would he be on?
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
Do you have fair use rights to your own work?
This story
explains how one Geoff Koch is being sued for composing music he
wrote which is too close in form to music he wrote-- but doesn't own.
Confused yet...
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
The rest of the world follows "suit"...
Both the Canadian and the UK versions of the RIAA are set to start
sueing as many of the music-sharing hoardes as they can. The Canadian
version (CRIA) plans 30 or more, see the
story here. The UK version, still delightfully referred to as
the British Phonographic Industry, as taken simply to speaking in a
firm voice.
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
When BetaMax walked the Earth
A nice story from the guardian on the 20 year aniversary of a landmark
US Supreme Court decision to uphold the
right to record broadcast programs at home.
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
Strunk and White roll in their grave...
Adobe photoshop has some basic grammatical rules concerning what is
"correct" and what "incorrect" when it comes to making use of
trademarked terms. Are they the thought police or should you be
allowed to use the word "photoshop" as a verb?
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
The RIAA is suing 532 Computers.
Because they only know which computers and not which people offer lots of music for download, the RIAA has actually submitted to court, not the names of students, but the IP addresses of computers. Talk about questioning the status of the author... Story at Yahoo
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
Who's stealing from whom?
To kick off the class, we start with "Are you being sued?" and music as
the battle ground for concerns over property, theft, ownership, and
fame. This
article suggests that there might be reason to distinguish
between major and minor labels when it comes to the harms of music
downloading...
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
Johnny Depp is our new Mascot...
On March 12, Sony Pictures is releasing what appears to be a thriller about a plagirized manuscript gone
horrbly wrong starring Johnny Depp. The
trailer features Johnny repeating the phrase "it's all about the
ending." Indeed...
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
Penn State Requires Napster
Penn State has decided to give their students access to the new Napster by making it part of their
fees. The system only works with Windows 2000/XP and gives very
limited, almost non-existent rights to what you can do with this
supposedly free music. Is PSU bought and sold? Stories on slashdot
and cnn...
One lone man has set out to teach the
students an alternative...
perma
| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
The Slippery Web.
The Adrian Johns article for thus has moved... it is now available here.
Thanks to mitali for finding it.
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| posted at 12:18 on Dec 13, 2005
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