Readings and Required Books Required Books

Herrington, T.K. (2003). A legal primer for the digital age. New York: Pearson Longman.  $9.91 new and used.
Lessig. L. (2009). Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy. The Penguin Press HC. free download; http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm

Logie, J. (2006). Peers, pirates, & persuasion: Rhetoric in the peer-to-peer debates. Indiana: Parlor Press. free download; http://www.parlorpress.com/logie.html

Aoki, K., Boyle, J. & Jenkins, J. (2006). Tales from the public domain: Bound by law? Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain. free download; http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/

Brown, M. F. (2004). Who owns Native culture? USA: Harvard University Press.  $14.00 new, $8.00 used

Power, influence, and persuasion: Sell your ideas and make things happen. (2005). Harvard Business School Press. $14.00 new, $8.00 used

Harvard business essentials guide to negotiation. (2003). USA: Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. $14.00 new, $8.00 used

Fox, C.M. (2008). Working with contracts: What law school doesn't teach you. $20.00-18.00 new and used

All other readings provided by instructor.

Optional but Recommended Books

Grabill, J.T. (2007). Writing community change: Designing technologies for citizen action. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc. $18.00 new and used

Williams, P.J. (1991). The alchemy of race and rights: diary of a law professor. United States: Harvard University Press.  $18.00 new, .73 used

Weekly Readings

Privacy, censorship, and free speech

Week 1: Jan. 17

Warren & Brandeis. (1890). The right to privacy. Harvard Law Review, IV(5).

Part VIII to the end of Roe v. Wade. (1973). 410 US 113.

The 14th Amendment

The 1st Amendment

Week 2: Jan. 24

Ajula, S. (2009). “In Facebook fracas, Beauty school sues student for online comments.” The Chronicle.

EFF Blogger's Legal Guide, "Defamation" http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamation

Chapter 1: “The Missionary’s photographs” from Who owns Native Culture? (Brown)

[optional readings for weeks 1 & 2: Rife, M.C. (2007, May). Technical communicators and digital writing risk assessment. Technical Communication, 54 (2), 157-170; Bratman, B. (2002). Brandeis & Warren's 'The right to privacy and the birth of the right to privacy.' http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1334296]
 

Authorship

Week 3: Jan. 31

Gates, H.L. Jr. (2003). Phillis Wheatley on trial; In 1772, a slave girl had to prove she was a poet. She’s had to do so ever since. The New Yorker.

“What is an author?” Michel Foucault. From (1984). The Foucault reader. Paul Rabinow, Ed. New York: Pantheon Books.

Copyright, fair use, intellectual property

Week 4: Feb. 7

Chapter 5: “Intellectual property: Trademarks, trade secrets, patents, and copyrights” from A legal primer for the digital age. (Herrington)

Chapter 2: “Cultures and copyrights” from Who owns Native Culture? (Brown)

Pages 1-20 from Aoki, K., Boyle, J. & Jenkins, J. (2006). Tales from the public domain: Bound by law? Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

Creative Commons Website

Week 5: Feb. 14

“Professor wins fees from Joyce estate.” (2009). San Francisco Chronicle. B. Egelko.

Chapter 4: "RW, revived" from Lessig, L. (2009). Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy.

Chapter 4: "The problem of 'sharing' in digital environments." From Peers, pirates, & persuasion. (Logie)

Creating for the organization

Week 6: Feb. 21

Chapter 5: “Legal fiction of employer authorship: Work for hire” from A legal primer for the digital age. (Herrington)

Five Work-for-Hire policies (provided by instructor)

Week 7: Feb. 28

Chapter 5: “Shared authorship: Joint work” from A legal primer for the digital age. (Herrington)

Chapter 5: “Making infrastructures to support invention” from Writing community change: Designing technologies for citizen action. (Grabill)

Sample terms of use, and end user license agreements (provided by instructor)

[optional: Dragga, S. & Voss, D. (2001). Cruel pies: The inhumanity of technical illustrations. Technical Communication.]

Entrepreneurship and starting a business

Week 8: March 14

Chapter 3: “Business relationships and organizational structures” from A legal primer for the digital age. (pp. 41-50) (Herrington)

Sample business plan, mission statement, release and consent form, independent contractor agreement, business policies, business advertisements (provided by instructor)

Week 9: March 21

Power, influence, and persuasion: Sell your ideas and make things happen.

Basic employment issues

Week 10: March 28

Chapter 3: “Business relationships and organizational structures” from A legal primer for the digital age. (pp. 25-41) (Herrington)

Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act 453 of 1976

Sample job interview protocols, job advertisements

Contracts and negotiation

Week 11: April 4

Working with contracts: What law school doesn't teach you. (Fox)

Sample publishing contracts

[optional: Williams, P.J. (1991). The alchemy of race and rights: diary of a law professor. United States: Harvard University Press.]

Week 12: April 11

Chapter 4: “Legal agreements: Contracts” from A legal primer for the digital age. (Herrington)

Week 13: April 18

Harvard business essentials guide to negotiation.

International-Global issues

Week 14: April 24

Fishman, T.C. (2005, Jan. 9). Manufaketure. New York Times Magazine. p.40.

Shiva, Vanada. (2009). The future of food and the seed. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3833110324043445440#

Introduction from Bowrey, K. (2005). Law & internet cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Week 15: May 2

Week 16: May 9

Martine Courant Rife --- Authorship in the Digital Age