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Spring
2004
Location:
TBA
Time:
TR 2:30-3:50
Instructors:
Christopher
Kelty ckelty @ rice.edu, SH580
Scott
McGill smcgill @ rice.edu, RH232
Introduction:
Ownership,
authorship, plagiarism, intellectual property, parody,
critique, re-use, credit, reputation, allusion, imitation, patronage,
payment, piracy, creativity, originality, borrowing, lending,
stealing, quoting, citing, lifting, re-writing, ghostwriting,
translating, acting, performing, impersonating, collaborating,
forging, re-creating, editing, sampling, sharing.
If you can
distinguish between all these activities, legally, morally,
culturally and historically, then you don't need our class. If on
the other hand, you want to know why ancient Romans sampled Virgil so
often, or why some plagiarism is art and some is crime, or what could
happen to manuscripts in antiquity when they circulated, or why the
RIAA is suing thousands of college students, or how Martial and
Horace thought about ownership, payment and credit, or how Hollywood
does so, or whether Christians should be allowed to "share"
their message, or their software, then this is your class.
Prerequisites:
There are
no prerequisites for this class. But it's still hard.
Requirements:
1)
Attendance and participation in discussions : 33%
2)
Glossary/Reading Response Assignments: 33%
3) Two (2)
Projects/Papers: 33% (both are required for the grade)
Required
Texts:
No texts
at the bookstore.
Readings
marked with a CR are available from Electronic Course Reservers
http://www.rice.edu/fondren/circ/reserves.html
(password provided in class)
All others
are either available online, or will be handed out in class.
You
must bring a copy of the assigned reading to class each day.
Schedule:
Part One: Ownership
Week 1 Introduction
Tues.
Jan. 13: Introduction
Course outline, requirements, etc.
Authorship vs. ownership and some alternatives
The Anthropological Approach
Historical tag-team approach
Reading literature as culture, reading law as
literature.
Thus.
Jan. 15: Are you being sued? Music as the battleground of
modern information and intellectual property
Read and explore as much as possible of the following
resources:
http://eff.org/share/
http://www.respectcopyrights.org/
http://creativecommons.org/
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
http://www.riaa.com/
http://www.ifpi.org/
"What's the Diff? The Xcellent Xtreme Challenge
http://www.respectcopyrights.org/CG_FINAL.pdf
Readings: Adrian Johns
"Pop Music Pirate Hunters" Daedalus Spring
2002
http://www.amacad.org/publications/spring2002/johns.pdf
Week 2 Introduction to Intellectual
Property
Tues.
Jan 20: IP Law Primer
James Boyle, Shamans, Software and Spleens, p.
1-46 (CR#44)
US Constitution (pay special attention to section 8)
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html
U.S. Federal Code Section 17
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/
U.S. Library of Congress Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/
World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.org/
Thus.
Jan. 22: What can you own and what can't you
Culture: Michael
Brown, Who owns Native Culture? p. 43-94 (CR#45)
Your Body: Boyle, Shamans, Software and
Spleens, p. 97-107 (CR#44)
Air: Streeter Selling the Air,
p. 219-275 (CR#46)
The Word of God:
Elkin-Koren, "Of Scientific Claims and Proprietary Rights:
Lessons from the Dead Sea Scrolls Case" 38 Houst.
L. Rev. 445. (CR#47)
Week 3 Manuscripts and ownership in
the Ancient world
Tues.
Jan 27: Manuscripts: An Introduction
Reynolds
and Wilson, Scribes and Scholars,p. 1-43 (CR#1)
West, Textual
Criticism and Editorial Technique, p. 7-29(CR#2)
Clift, Latin
Pseudepigrapha, p. 5-39 (CR#3)
Martial, Epigram 2.20 p.
122-123 (CR#4)
Thus. Jan 29:
The Textual Traditions of Homer and of Virgil
Haslam,"Homeric Papyri and Transmission of the Text"
p. 55-97 (CR#5)
Geymonat,"The Transmission of Virgil"s Works in
Antiquity and the Middle Ages" p. 293-313(CR#6)
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 1.21, 4.14.7 (CR#7)
Week 4 Manuscripts cont'd
Tues. Feb 3:
Manuscripts" (Mis)Adventures
Tarrant,"The Reader as Author: Collaborative
Interpolation in Latin Poetry" p. 122-162 (CR#8)
Hanson,"Galen: Author and Critic" p. 22-53
(CR#9)
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, Pr. 7
(CR#10)
Martial, Epigram 2.8 (CR#11)
Thus. Feb 5:
Medieval Authorship and Memory
Mary Carruthers, The Book of Memory, p. 189-220
(CR#48)
Part Two: Authorship
Week 5 I Me Mine. Creativity and
Originality, Plagiarism
Tues.
Feb 10: Is property a historical category?
Christopher Ricks, "Plagiarism" Allusion to
the Poets p. 219-240 (CR#49)
Kathy Acker "Devoured by Myths: Interview" in
Hannibal Lecter, My Father p. 1-24 (CR#50)
Thus.
Feb 12: Genius, Copyright and the origins of the modern author
Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet368.html
Wordsworth, Essay Supplementary to the Preface
at
http://www.bartleby.com/39/39.html
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, p.
597-612 (CR#62)
Mark
Rose, Authors and Owners,
p. 31-66 (CR#59)
Paul K Saint-Amour The
Copywrights, p.23-53 (CR#60)
Week 6 Ego, Me, Meum: Creativity
and Authorship in the Ancient World?
Tues.
Feb 17: Creativity: Human or Divine?
Plato's Republic (TBA)
Horace, Ars Poetica, 385-476 (p. 478-489)
(CR#14)
Thus. Feb 19:
Assertions of Ownership in Ancient Literature
Theognis, 19-38 (p. 230-233) (CR#15)
Horace, Odes 3.30 (in Commager, p. 312-313)
(CR#16)
Nisbet and Hubbard, Commentary on Odes 3.30 p.
332-337 (CR#17)
Virgil, Georgics 4.562-566 p. 236-237 (CR#18)
Suetonius, Life of Virgil, p. 451 (CR#19)
Martial, Epigrams 1.29, 1.38, 1.53, 1.63, 1.66, and 1.72
(CR#20)
Week 7 An Alternative Mode of
Authorship and Ownership in Antiquity: Imitation\
Tues. Feb 24:
Theoretical Introduction
Russell, De
Imitatione, p. 1-17
(CR#21)
Conte, The Rhetoric of
Imitation, p.23-93 (CR#22)
Thus. Feb 26:
Imitation in Practice
Seneca the Younger, Epistle 79.1-7 [p. 200-205]
(CR#23)
Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 3.7 [p. 57-58]
(CR#24)
Macrobius, Saturnalia 5.2 and 5.3 [p.
286-294](CR#25)
Suetonius, Life of Virgil, p. 459 (CR#26)
Week 8
Midterm
Break
Part Three: Alternative forms of
authoring and owning
Week 9: When is the same text?
Tues. Mar 9:
J.L. Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
in Collected Fictions p.88-96 (CR#51)
Selections from Don Quixote by Cervantes Pages
1-9, 451-458 (CR#61)
Selections from Don Quixote by Kathy Acker (TBA)
Thus. Mar 11:
Oral Performance: What Text? Who Sings?
Plato, Ion p. 403-447 (CR#13)
Nagy, Poetry as Performance: Dead Poets and
Recomposed Performers p. 207-225(CR#27)
Thomas, Prose Performance Texts p.
162-188 (CR#28)
Week 10: Appropriation and
Re-Use/Fair Use
Tues. Mar 16:
"My Poem Written from Another"s"
Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis p. 370-393 (CR#29)
Thus. Mar 18:
"My Music from another's"
Negativland, Two
Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain
http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?66+Law+&+Contemp.+Probs.+239+(WinterSpring+2003)
Creative Commons and the Sampling License
http://www.creativecommons.org/
Sampling in Fashion: "Is copying really a part of
the creative process?" New York Times April 9, 2002
(CR#52)
Music From: Plunderphonics, Evolution Control Committee,
John Oswald, Scanner/Robin Rimbaud, The Tape Beatles, Stock, Hausen
and Walkman, etc.
Week 11 Forgery, Pseudepigraphy
Tues. Mar 23:
Modern Fakery
Ern Malley, The Darkening Ecliptic p. 1-45
(CR#53)
"Hyperauthor! Hyperauthor!" Michael Atkinson
The Believer Dec/Jan 2003
(TBD)
Nelson Goodman "Art and Authenticity" in
Languages of Art (TBD)
http://www.sniggle.net/
Optional:
Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake
Lawrence Weschler, J.S.G. Boggs, selections
Doubled Flowering Araki Yasusada
Movie: F for Fake, Orson Welles
Thus. Mar 25:
Ancient Fakery
Grafton, Forgery and Criticism: An Overview p.
8-35 (CR#30)
Clift, Latin Pseudepigrapha p. 123-128 (CR#3)
"Virgil," Catalepton p. 486-509 (CR#31)
The Trojan War: The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete
p. 3-21 (CR#32)
Week 12 Alternate notions of control
over texts
Tues. Mar 30:
Controlling the destiny of texts
Copyright licenses and Free Software
Christopher Kelty, "Free Software/Free Science"
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_12/kelty/
The Gnu General Public Licence (GPL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Thus. Apr 1:
Editing and Authoring in Antiquity
Love, Defining Authorship p.32-50 (CR#33)
Suetonius, Life of Virgil, p. 455-456 (CR#34)
Ausonius, Prefaces to the Eclogues (p. 163),
Masque (p. 311), and Riddle (p. 353-354) (CR#35)
Sidonius, Epistle 1.1 (p. 331-335) (CR#36)
Week 13 Alternate notions of value:
Credit, Anonymity, Ghostwriting
Tues. Apr 6:
Anonymity and Credit in Science and Hollywood
Tad Friend "Credit Grab" New Yorker,
Oct 20, 2003 p. 160-169 (CR#54)
Mary Terall, "The Uses of Anonymity in the Age of
Reason" in Scientific Authorship p. 91-112 (CR#55)
Thus. Apr 8:
Ghost Writing in Antiquity
Gregory, Notes on Ghost Writing (CR#37)
Avery, Roman Ghost Writers (CR#38)
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.8.49-52
[p.502-505 (CR#39)
Suetonius, On Grammarians 3 [p. 378-381](CR#40)
Week 14 Owning a character/Owning a
life story
Tues. Apr 13:
Owning a character
Bob Rosen, Pirates
and the Mouse, pgs 43-83 (CR#56)
Air Pirates Funnies #1 (in
class)
Jenny Everywhere
http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/
Rocky v. Ali v. Wepner v. Stallone
"Bayonne Bleeder Throws a Punch at the Italian
Stallion" New York Times Nov 16, 2003. (CR#57)
"The Eye of the Lawsuit" Los Angeles
Times, Nov. 13, 2003. (CR#58)
Anderson vs. Stallone 1989 (Search on
Lexis-Nexis)
Thus. Apr 15:
Playing Cicero and Virgil
Kaster, Becoming Cicero p. 248-263 (CR#41)
Seneca the Elder, Suasoria 7 p.77-83 (CR#42)
Anthologia Latina 507-518, 603-614 [p. 62-65,
86-91] (CR#43)
Week 15 Conclusion
Tues. Apr 20: My
Story or Ours?
Shoah Foundation videos (in class)
Thus. Apr 22:
Conclusion
Honor
Code Issues: Participation is required and assessed by both
instructors in each of the classes. For the glossary entries, each
student is responsible for his or her own entries. In the case of
collaboration or group work on assignments all participants must be
named, and all will receive the same grade. In the case of group
assignments, division of labor and policing of work will be left up
to the group.
Disability Issues: If
you have a documented disability that will impact your work in this
class, please contact one of us to discuss your needs. Additionally,
you will need to register with the Disability Support Services Office
in the Ley Student Center.
"Text as
Property/Property as Text" Anth 321/Clas 311 Reading list
(Electronic Course Reserves)
Christopher Kelty
ckelty@rice.edu
Scott McGill
smcgill@rice.edu
1) L.D. Reynolds and N.G.
Wilson, Scribes and Scholars, Clarendon Press:Oxford 1991.
Pages 1-43.
2) Martin L.West, Textual
Criticism and Editorial Technique, Stuttgart: Teubner 1973 Pages
7-29
3) Evelyn H.Clift, Latin
Pseudepigrapha, Baltimore 1945. Pages 5-39, Pages 123-128.
4) Martial, Epigram 2.20
Pages 122-123
5) Michael Haslam,
"Homeric Papyri and Transmission of the Text," in Ian
Morris and Barry Powell, ed., A New Companion to Homer,
Leiden: Brill 1997. Pages 55-97
6) M. Geymonat, "The
Transmission of Virgil"s Works in Antiquity and the Middle Ages"
Nicholas Horsfall, ed., A Companion to the Study of Virgil,
Ledien: Brill, 1995. Pages 293-313
7) Aulus Gellius,
The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Pages 94-97, 200-201
8) R.J. Tarrant, "The
Reader as Author: Collaborative Interpolation in Latin Poetry,"
in John N Grant, ed., Editing Greek and Latin Texts, New
York:AMC Press 1989. Pages 122-162
9) Ann Ellis Hanson,
"Galen: Author and Critic," in Glenn Most, ed.,
Sonderdruck aus Editing Texts, Goettingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 1998. Pages 22-53.
10) Quintilian,
Institutio Oratoria, London: Heinemann 1921. Pages 8-9
11) Martial, Epigrams,
Pages 114-115
12) Sean Burke
"Introduction: Reconstructing the Author," in Sean Burke,
ed., Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern,
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1995. Pages
xv-xxx
13) Plato, Ion,
tr.
H. Fowler, London: Heinemann, 1925. Pages 403-447.
14) Horace, Ars
Poetica, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1942 Pages
478-489
15) Theognis, in T.E.
Page ed.Loeb Classical LibraryPages Pages 216-217, 230-233
16) Steele Commager,
The Odes of Horace, Bloomington:Indiana University Press 1967.
Pages 312-313
17) R.G.M. Nisbet and M.
Hubbard, A Commentary on Horace: Odes, Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1978. Pages 332-337
18) Virgil, Georgics
4, Pages 236-237
19) Suetonius, Volume
II, Pages 450-451
20) Martial, Epigrams,
Pages 46-47, 52-53, 62-65, 68-69, 70-71, 74-75
21) D.A. Russell, De
Imitatione, in David West and Tony Woodman, eds., Creative
Imitation and Latin Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1979 Pages 1-17
22) G. B. Conte, The
Rhetoric of Imitation, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986
Pages 23-93.
23) Seneca, Ad
Lucilium Epistulae Morales, in Warmington ed. Loeb Classical
Library Pages 200-205
24) Seneca the Elder,
Suasoriae, III, ed. William Edward Bristol Classical Press,
Pages 56-58
25) Macrobius, The
Saturnalia, tr.
PagesV. Davies, New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Pages
286-294
26) Suetonius, Lives
of Illustrious Men, Pages 458-459
27) G. Nagy, Poetry as
Performance: Homer and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996, Pages 207-225.
28) R. Thomas, "Epideixis
and Written Publication in the Late Fifth and Early Fourth
Centuries," in Harvey Yunis, ed.,
Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pages 162-188
29) Ausonius I, Cento
Nuptialis, Pages 370-393
30) A. Grafton, Forgers
and Critics, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990 Pages
8-35.
31)Virgil, Catalepton,
Pages 486-509
32) Dictys and Dares, The
Trojan War, ed. R.M. Frazer Jr.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press Pages 3-21
33) H. Love, Attributing
Authorship, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Pages 32-50
34) Suetonius, Lives
of Illustrious Men, Pages 454-457
35) Ausonius I, Pages
162-163, 310-311, 352-355
36) Sidonius,Poems and
Letters, Pages 330-335
37) Andrew Gregory,
"Ghost-Writing, Oratory, and Roman Political Life" Handout,
Feb 3, 1997. 3 Pages
38) W.Avery, "Roman
Ghost-Writers" 2 Pages
39) Quintilian,
Institutio Oratoria, III.8., Pages 502-505
40) Suetonius, Lives
of Illustrious Men, Pages 378-381
41) Robert Kaster,
"Becoming Cicero" in Knox and Foss, eds. Style and
Tradition: Studies in Honor of Wendell Clausen,
Stuttgart: Teubner, 1998 Pages 248-263.
42) Seneca the Elder,
Suasoriae VII, Pages 77-83
43) Anthologia Latina,
Pages 62-65, 86-91
44) James Boyle, Shamans,
Software and Spleens, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press 1996
Pages 1-46, 97-107
45)
Michael Brown, Who owns Native Culture?
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pages 43-94
46) Thomas Streeter
Selling the Air, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
Pages 219-275
47)
N. Elkin-Koren, "Of
Scientific Claims and Proprietary Rights:Lessons from the Dead Sea
Scrolls Case" 38 Houst.
L. Rev. 445 11 Pages
48)
Mary Carruthers, The Book of Memory, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pages 189-220.
49)
Christopher Ricks, "Plagiarism" in Allusion to
the Poets, Oxford: Oxford
University Press 2002. Pages 219-240
50)
Kathy Acker "Devoured by Myths: Interview" in
Hannibal Lecter, My Father New
York: Semiotext(e) 1991 Pages 1-24.
51)
J.L. Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
in Collected Fictions New
York: Viking, 1998. Pages 88-96.
52)
Sampling in Fashion. "Is copying really a part of the
creative process?" NYT April 9, 2002 4 pages.
53)
Ern Malley, The Darkening Ecliptic , Melbourne,
National Press 1944 Pages 1-45.
54)
Tad Friend "Credit Grab" New Yorker, Oct. 20
2003 Pages 160-169
55) Mary Terall, "The
Uses of Anonymity in the Age of Reason" in Scientific
Authorship, New York: Routledge,
2003. Pages 91-112
56)
Bob Rosen, Pirates and
the Mouse, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books 2003 Pages 43-83
57)
"Bayonne Bleeder Throws a Punch at the Italian Stallion"
New York Times Nov 16, 2003.2 Pages.
58) "The Eye of the
Lawsuit" Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 2003. 2 pages.
59)
Mark Rose, Authors and Owners,
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pages
31-66
60) Paul K. Saint-Amour,
The Copywrights, Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2003. Pages 23-53
61)
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, tr.
Edith Grossman, New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Pages
1-9, 451-458.
62)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, ed.
John Butt, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. Pages
597-612
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