Fri, Feb 4: Copyright and Your Rights

Here we'll discuss copyright and how it relates to...copying. Is there a difference between what's legal and what's ethical. Is copying always wrong? Are there police offices stationed at every photocopying machine?

• A brief history of copyright.
• Who does copyright protect? YOU!
• Oswald and Mickey, Walt and Igor, and Al Michaels and Oswald.
• Cylinders, discs, and how cassettes were the "end of the world."
• The generation without singles.
• How much copying is too much? Casual copying?
• The Betamax Decision. A Prairie Home Companion and "wink, wink, nudge, nudge."
• Napster: when the entire Internet was your best friend.
• How is $1.29 less than 25c?
• How much copying is too much? What's ethical?
• Orphan works and ethical copying?
• What about YouTube?
• Parody, Fair Use, Free Publicity, and Downfall (original, iSketch parody, takedown parody)
• A Fine Day for Zamzar