Schedule

This document contains the approximate week-by-week schedule for this course. This schedule is permanently under construction. Details are to be filled in soon.

Tentative list of topics

File sharing and copyright
Whether there is such a thing as "Intellectual Property"
The DMCA, and what it means to you
Software patents
Issues in software licensing
Trust and the web: phishing and other matters
The continuing erosion of privacy, and why nobody cares
Professional responsibilities in computing fields
Encryption and the law
How much can you trust your software?
Hacking
Antitrust issues in software

Tentative outline

copyright
privacy
- from employers
- from government
  - security
  - matching / fraud prevention
  - patriot acts
- from marketers
  - personal profiles
  - rfid
- from copyright holders (RIAA lawsuits, ISP actions)
- legal records
- per-use content management
patents
- open source
speech
- encryption
- dmca
- software
- anonymity
- libel
- hoaxes
trust and the web
- e-commerce
- information reliability
- security: phishing, certificates, etc
- trusting your software
  - spyware
- voting & democracy
- hacking

antitrust issues
- open source
professional issues
- talking to your supervisor