The main course notes are in the Notes Organized by Topic section on the main web page. Reading assignments, comments on the class discussion and occasional special notices are in these week-by-week notes.
The revision is due Oct 15. If your score was 19 or 20, you don't need to resubmit. If your score was 18, it's kind of your choice.
A few notes on paper 1:
1. Apparently rappers really did like sampling Funk.
2. For sampling, be aware of the distinction between credit and permission.
3. For Sci-Hub, if the public paid for it, do they deserve free access? This is not usually true when arts funding is at stake.
4. The Verge just ran an article Alexandra Elbakyan, Science's Pirate Queen: theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit.
5. Edward Lee, Fair Use Avoidance in Music Cases
Lee's ideas seem to apply much better to general infringement cases rather than to sampling per se. He does argue Thicke & Williams might have had a good Fair Use case against Marvin Gaye's estate. Another useful point may be that so-called "appropriation art", as practiced by Richard Prince, is generally accepted in the art world, while "appropriation music" is seldom acknowledged in the music world even though it is ubiquitous.
Startling news from Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-28/facebook-whatsapp-will-have-to-share-messages-with-u-k-police
Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share
Messages With U.K.
By Kitty Donaldson and Mark Burton
September 28, 2019, 6:46 AM EDT Updated on September 28, 2019, 5:23 PM
EDT
Information will be shared in serious criminal
investigations. Facebook opposes government attempts to build
‘backdoors’
Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp
will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police
under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person
familiar with the matter.
The accord, which is set to be signed by next month, will compel social
media firms to share information to support investigations into
individuals suspected of serious criminal offenses including terrorism
and pedophilia, the person said.
Priti Patel, the U.K.’s home secretary, has previously warned that
Facebook’s plan to enable users to send end-to-end encrypted messages
would benefit criminals, and called on social media firms to develop
“back doors” to give intelligence agencies access to their messaging
platforms.
“We oppose government attempts to build backdoors because they would
undermine the privacy and security of our users everywhere,” Facebook
said in a statement. “Government policies like the Cloud Act allow for
companies to provide available information when we receive valid legal
requests and do not require companies to build back doors.”
Um, not so much: see Alex Stamos' tweet review: twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1178308065268920320.
(Stamos was Facebook's security head until August 2018. Apparently he
quit in disgust.)
Continue with privacy.