Intellectual property in the age of new media

NB! This is only a development "sandbox" - the real course will be located at the Owl Academy.

Main idea - to introduce various political and social issues in the field of new media, to promote awareness of and to discuss the diverse circle of related problems.

The Course:

• 16 weeks (one semester/term) - one 1.5-hour session (lecture or lab) weekly plus independent work.
• 3.0 Estonian academic credits, 4.0 ECTS credits

Assessment:

• paper + slides + oral presentation
• assignments
• link portfolio (Technorati or similar)
• blog

Readings:

• Barlow, J. P. (1996) A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
• George, J.F. (2003) Computers in Society: Privacy, Ethics and the Internet. Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey
• Himanen, P. (2004) Challenges of the Global Information Society. report for the Committee for the Future in Parliament of Finland.
• Himanen, P. (2001) Hacker Ethic. Random House
• Himanen, P. (2002) Häkkerieetika ja informatsiooniajastu vaim. Kunst, Tallinn (Estonian translation of Hacker Ethic)
• Lessig, L. (2004). Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The Penguin Press.
• Martin, B. (1998) Information Liberation: Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power. Freedom Press, London.
• Stallman, R. (2002). Free Software, Free Society. Ed. Joshua Gay. GNU Press
• Wynants, M., Cornelis, J., eds (2005) How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open-Source Sofware. CrossTalks, VUB Brussels University Press 2005.