• Intellectual property: copyright, security, commerce, terms and conditions
• Readings:
  • Chapter 6, Arms.
  • R. Stallman, "Why Software Should Not Have Owners," 1994.
    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html
    Richard Stallman is head of the Free Software Foundation, and both he and Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) are the de facto point men for the small but vocal free software community. I present this reading half in jest, since I've already disclosed that I'm an information radical ;-), and half seriously since most of the concepts put forth in Chapter 10 of the Lesk textbook can be considered as "philosophy." Perhaps the trouble we have encountered in adapting intellectual property to a digital environment should be considered an invitation to re-examine some of our presuppositions about information.
  • Henry Gladney, Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property, D-Lib Magazine, 5(12), 1999.
    http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12gladney.html
    This article is a synopsis of a study by the National Academies' Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure. It is a readable overview of the intersection between law/policy and technology with respect to digital preservation and rights management.