Intellectual Property

Tom Kelliher, CS 200

Feb. 23, 2006

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Read: Chapter 5.

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Chapter Summary

1. Intellectual property (IP)
   1. What is it?

   2. We have a natural right to physical property. What about intellectual property?

   3. Benefits/costs of intellectual property protection. Limitations.

2. IP protection mechanisms: trade secrets, Trademarks and service marks, patents, copyrights.

3. Fair use:
   1. Four part test: Purpose and character of the use, nature of the work being copied, how much is being copied, how will the use affect the market for the work.

   2. Goucher's response: IP policy; safe harbor rules; Fair Use Committee.

   3. Time shifting and space shifting.

4. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):
   1. Strictures on fair use (personal copying).

   2. Digital rights management. Encrypted CDs (Microsoft vs. Apple wrt .wma media file format).

5. Peer-to-Peer Networks
   1. Napster, etc.

   2. eDigix service at Goucher. The ``right to violate copyright.''

6. Protecting Software:
   1. Copyrights and patents.

7. Open source software. Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

   Problems: quality, splintering (unintended forks in development path, ala Unix).

8. Ethical analyses of:
   1. IP protection for software.

   2. Copying IP.

Discussion Questions

1. Pps. 203-: 24, 25, 31, 32, 34.

Tom Kelliher