Week 08: Copyright, Privacy, Intellectual Property and Censorship: the big issues for the digital age, Lecturer: Gavan McCarthy - Fact, Fiction and Fraud in the Digital Age Lecture Summary

Fact, Fiction and Fraud in the Digital Age
Essential Skills for the Information Age Worker, Semester 2 2004

Week 08: Copyright, Privacy, Intellectual Property and Censorship: the big issues for the digital age

Lecturer: Gavan McCarthy

Online Sources

Date: 15 Sep 2004 1pm

Location: Old Arts Theatre B

All workers dealing with information will confront these issues continuously throughout their working life. This lecture will provide the conceptual foundations for dealing with these issues within the context. This is not an easy issue. The inherited framework is geared for analogue objects and may not be easily adapted to the digital world.

There is an enormous amount of literature on this subject on the Web - and it is relatively easy to track down some pretty interesting stuff that can inform your thinking and analysis. Only a few references are given in the bibliography - and these are ones they I will make specific reference to in the lecture.

Tutorial Exercises

Who are the conflicting parties in the above discourses?
Are they really in conflict or are there now more jurisdictions in which they can operate?
Are there big winners and losers?
Who participates in these discourses and who decides - is it important?

Lab Exercise

Collect five copyright statements from a variety of websites, post these to webraft (or provide a link) and compare and analyse.

Online Sources

Electronic Journals

Smith, Nick (ed.), Copyright Bulletin, Issue 17, October 2000, Australian Libraries Copyright Council, 2000, 8 pp, http://www.digital.org.au/alcc/bulletin.html.

Resources

Australian Copyright Council, Australian Copyright Council: Online Information Centre, 31 August 2000 edn, with Green, Michael, Australian Copyright Council, 31 August 2000, http://www.copyright.org.au/.

Longmuir, Gavin, Privacy and Digital Authentication - Personal (or Individual) Privacy concerns versus the Community needs for Authentication ina n increasingly Digital world, [not specified], 21 May 2000, http://caligula.anu.edu.au/~gavin/ResearchPaper.htm.

Yee, Danny, Free Software Advocacy, Danny Yee, 2000, http://danny.oz.au/free-software/index.html.

Resource Sections

Evans, Jeff, 'Australian Intellectual Property Links; International Intellectual Property Links', in Small Business Victoria: helping small business start & grow..., Small Business Victoria, 15 June 2000, http://www.sbv.vic.gov.au/dir064/sbvsite.nsf/pages/links_ip.

Martin, Brian, 'Against intellectual property', in Free Software Advocacy, Yee, Danny, Danny Yee, 2000, http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html.

National Archives of Australia, 'Fact Sheet 7 - Citation of archival records', in Publications; Fact Sheets, National Archives of Australia, September 2000, http://www.naa.gov.au/publications/fact_sheets/FS07.html.

National Archives of Australia, 'Fact Sheet 8 - Copyright and research', in Publications; Fact Sheets, National Archives of Australia, September 2000, http://www.naa.gov.au/publications/fact_sheets/FS08.html.

National Archives of Australia, 'Fact Sheet 105 - Copyright records', in Publications; Fact Sheets, National Archives of Australia, September 2000, http://www.naa.gov.au/publications/fact_sheets/FS105.html.

Prepared by: Gavan McCarthy
Created: 5 June 2000
Modified: 22 July 2004

Published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, 2000 - 2004
Comments, questions, corrections and additions: tfac@austehc.unimelb.edu.au
Updated: 22 July 2004
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