Computer Ethics, Fall 2022
Mondays 4:15-6:45
Class 2 Readings
Read the first three sections of Baase chapter 1 and at least the first
section of chapter 4, especially:
Video sharing in §1.2.1
Cellphone case-study in §1.2.2
What is intellectual property?: §4.1.1
Before class 2, finish reading chapter 1 and read the first three sections
of chapter 4.
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.
No, the police are not tracking you. They are paying others to do that.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/inside-fog-data-science-secretive-company-selling-mass-surveillance-local-police
Apparently Google Maps is ok, but Waze is not. Even though Google owns
Waze.
Paper 1
Intellectual
Property and the Free Market
Is "intellectual property" a reasonable, enforceable concept?
Napster Model
Who is copyright for?
Legal version of that question
Ethical paradoxes
Ethical Theory (also see the video)
Copyright and utiitarian v deontological approaches
For-profit infringement
Music sampling