Week 11: Intellectual Property and the Internet

7 Apr 2005 Thursday

6 Apr 2005 Wednesday

DMCA, DVD copying, DeCSS, Digital Rights Management.
Patents, requirements for patentability.
Legal Action: SCO/Groklaw, Eolas/Microsoft, USPTO and the Amazon 1-click patent 5,960,411

4 Apr 2005 Monday
Intellectual Property

Overview of Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets.
Limited Monopolies on Exclusive Rights.
Copyright: rights, transfers, first-sale, obtaining copyright
Licenses, statutory licenses, creative commons, open source licenses (Microsoft EULA, GPL ...)
DMCA - digital millenium copyright act
References:

• Wikipedia entries:
  • Copyright
  • Intellectual Property
  • DMCA
• US Copyright office
• Free Software Foundation and the the GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Microsoft Windows XP End User License Agreement
• A comparison of GPL and MSEULA
• http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
• the Creative Commons License
• Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
• On Copyright and Patent Protection for Software and Databases: A Tale of Two Worlds by Bronwyn H. Hall, Prof of Economic, UC Berkeley
  in Economics, Law, and Intellectual Property, Kluwer Publishing Company, 2003.
• Intro to Jaffe/Lerner book

Week 10: Open Source Software

Readings:

• Parts II,III of Coase's Penguin or Linux and the Nature of the Firm by Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Yale Law School in The Yale Law Journal, Volume 112, 2002.
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Publications from NSF Funded project on Economics of Open Source at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research including
  • "First Full Findings from FLOSS-US: The Free/Libre and Open Source Software Developer Survey for 2003" by David, Waterman, and Arora, Sept 2003.
  • Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production, by Dalle, J.-M., P. A. David, Rishab A. Ghosh, & W. E. Steinmueller, Dec 2004.
• More academics papers on Open Source Software
• The GPL

31 Mar 2005 Thursday

30 Mar 2005 Wednesday

28 Mar 2005 Monday
Commons Based Peer Production

Week 9

24 Mar 2005 Thursday
Commons Based Peer Production

Reading:

• Part I of Coase's Penguin or Linux and the Nature of the Firm by Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Yale Law School in The Yale Law Journal, Volume 112, 2002.

23 Mar 2005 Wednesday
Wiki's and Collaborative Content Creation

Reading:

• Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow Visualizations by Fernanda B. Vigas, Martin Wattenberg, Kushal Dave in CHI2004.
• Authority Models for Collaborative Authoring by Krowne and Bazaz in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) January 05 - 08, 2004 Big Island, Hawaii

Reference websites:

• wikipedia.org - the main wikipedia site
• The WikiWikiWeb - this is the original wiki site
• A JScheme wiki and its source code in 96 lines

21 Mar 2005 Monday

Searching the web

• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine 1998
  Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, WWW7 / Computer Networks 30(1-7): 107-117 (1998)
• Web Search For A Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture - Barroso, Dean, Holzle
  Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0272-1732/03/2003 IEEE.

Week 8

17 Mar 2005 Thursday

Analysis of a Phishing scam
Identity Theft:

• www.consumer.gov/idtheft
  -- a web service of the US Federal Trade Commission
• Identity Theft Survey, 9/2003
  -- report commissioned for the FTC, completed by a market research company Synovate

16 Mar 2005 Wednesday

Privacy for Online activity and Discussion of Project/Paper topics

14 Mar 2005 Monday

Privacy for Offline activity

Week 7

10 Mar 2005 Thursday

More on public keys. For Monday read the following articles and we'll discuss them in class:
Privacy on the internet ... Fact Sheet from privacyrights.org
Public Records on the Internet -- Discussion of points in Beth Givens article ... privacyrights.org article on Public Records on the Internet

9 Mar 2005 Wednesday

Privacy

7 Mar 2005 Monday

Discussion of Pros and Cons of different Policies to minimize Cyberthreats.

Week 6

3 Mar 2005 Thursday

Questions for a discussion on the Security of our National/International Computer Infrastructure

Homework 5 (due Wednesday 3/9/2005)
Add a comment to this blog entry entitled Computer Security, make sure to put your name in the comment and brandeis email address.

In this blog write your suggestions for a National security policy. Assume that you are in a position of responsibility in the U.S. and your job is to ensure the future security of the U.S. Infrastructure. You need only write a short paragraph (say four or five lines) for each question, but you can be more expansive if you want. If you make factual statements, please provide a link supporting your claim ideally with a brief description of the credentials of the site (e.g. in this link to a webpage of a middle school student in Both, Ohio we see that ..., or in this link to the US government funded CERT security site ....) Feel free to comment won other student's blog entries.

2 Mar 2005 Wednesday

More discussion on Security and the Internet - in particular we discussed specific types of security threats and how they operate (e.g. CodeRed, Trojan Horses, ...)

28 Feb 2005 Monday

Security and the Internet

Week 5

17 Feb 2005 Monday

IM/Filesharing
Guest lecture by Cosi PhD student Catherine Havasi

16 Feb 2005 Wednesday

Groupware
Guest lecture by Kenroy Granville, PhD student in Cosi.

14 Feb 2005 Monday

More details on the 4collegewomen implementation.

• Downloading and installing the cs33b webapp

Blogging, Reading:
Pew/Internet report on blogging Feb 2004
Update to Pew report, Jan 2005

Links: Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility blog at cyber.law.harvard.edu

Week 4

10 Feb 2005 Thursday

Guest Lecture by Dr. Susan Blumenthal, US Assistant Surgeon General and Read Admiral of the Public Health Service.
Dr Blumenthal will talk about the 4collegewomen website that she founded and that has been built and maintained collaboratively with Brandeis.

9 Feb 2005 Wednesday

Today we discuss the improvements in the CS33b blog (now stored in blog2). In particular, we have added CSS customization. Next we briefly discuss issues involved in scaling up to a high use website, e.g. user support (both automatic and personal), legal issues, disaster recovery, security, privacy, performance benchmarking, hardware needs, minimizing dynamic pages, bandwidth requirements, upgrading server software, logs and log analysis, etc.

Homework 4 (due 2/14/2005)
Update the CSS on one of your blogs to change the appearance in some dramatic fashion. You can find the default css bindings here

7 Feb 2005 Monday

Today we dissected the blog1 site and found many User Interface design problems including developer errors, ambigous instructions, and a complete lack of options for users to update or modify their blog info.

Week 3

3 Feb 2005 Thursday

Today we look at a more refined version of the blog0 website in which the views have been more carefully crafted from the underlying database tables and in which some effort has been made to register and authenticate the users of the system.
The source code is here. Key ideas:

• Use of procedures combined with "map" and "amap" to transform database tables into custom HTML
• HTML form syntax
• Use of hidden input parameters to pass information from one servlet to another
• Use of session parameters to maintain information throughtout a session
• Model/View/Controller approach to user interface design

Homework 3 (due Monday 2/7/2005)
Use the blogging software buildt in class to create a blog for the class.
You can see the detailed description of homework 3 in the first blog entry of my CS33b05 blog.

2 Feb 2005 Wednesday

Today we went over a complete implementation of a minimally functional blog site here and we saw how to use Scheme servlets to access a database with SQL queries and either view or update the blog information.

Key ideas:

• use of "blogquery" procedure to access a database from a servlet
• use of list operations (rest, first, second, ...) to access data returned from database
• use of forms to pass information to a servlet
• use of curly-braces (quasi-strings) to combine HTML with dynamically generated content
• The importance of user interface components in the success of web applications

31 Jan 2005 Monday

Today we give a brief overview of the Scheme programming language, especially with regard to its use in servlet programming. (See here for a tutorial on the full language.)

Week 2

27 Jan 2005 Thursday

Today we discuss site graphs and site maps.

Homework 2 (due Monday 1/31)
Draw out the site graph of some interactive website. You should map out at least 10 webpages and the links between them.... Also indicate what information about the user, if any, is stored by the server at each point.

26 Jan 2005 Wednesday

Today we start a several class sequence in which we build a blogging site.... Today's lecture is on web-accessible databases and servlets that access that data.

24 Jan 2005 Monday

Snow day!

Week 1

20 Jan 2005 Thursday

Today we discuss CSS and assign a simple exercise (worth 1pt)

Homework 1 (due 1/24/2005)
Create a webpage called hw1.html in your folder on the student server. The hw1.html file should be an html page that uses all of the basic html tags mentioned in class

html, head, title, body, h1, h2, h3, p, pre, br, hr, span, div, ul, ol, li, table, td, tr a img This is due before class on Monday 1/24/05. You are encouraged to look at other peoples websites, but do not cut/paste any code.

19 Jan 2005 Wednesday

Today we discuss HTML and CSS

Week 0

13 Jan 2005 Thursday

Today we gave an overview of the course.