Computer Ethics, Sum 2023

Mondays and Wednesdays 6:00-7:30+

Class 5 Readings

Before class 5, finish reading chapter 1 of Baase and read the first three sections of chapter 4.

Videos:

    ECPA
    Theories of Privacy
    Section 230



paper 1, revision due 6/10


The Supreme Court is Wrong About Andy Warhol

www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/opinion/supreme-court-andy-warhol.html.

Maybe. But this guy knows his Warhol art.

Two theories:

  1. The case was decided to emphasize that "transformative use" really had to have a different purpose.
  2. The case was decided because the Warhol Foundation was licensing the image not as art, but as an appropriate illustration for magazine articles about love_symbol/Prince Rogers Nelson, and this really did encroach on Goldsmith's copyright.
Note: this is an actual rule: " the Unicode Standard does not encode idiosyncratic, personal, novel, rarely exchanged, or private-use characters"

Textbooks and filesharing

torrentfreak.com/high-prices-make-textbook-piracy-acceptable-to-most-students-230604.

The Bear Necessities

reason.com/2023/06/05/a-connecticut-couple-challenges-warrantless-surveillance-of-their-property-by-camera-carrying-bears.

You just cannot make up stuff like this. Note the "open-fields" doctrine.

More serious issues:

Debate signup

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VlmxehNLAWjL5POYTQzVU3T1kTzvq63ine46NujeZ5w


Privacy:

Supreme Court cases

Geofence warrants

ECPA

ECPA

Section 230 intro