Ethics Class 3

Computer Ethics, Spring 2022

Week 3, Feb 1

Class 3 Readings

You should have read all of chapter 1, and the first three sections of chapter 4.

Last week we finished up with the original RIAA lawsuits

Are these fair?

Resume with filesharing lawsuits today

Fair Use.

Two definitions of transformative use:

You change the style, appearance or genre, but the new version still represents a creative work
You change to a fundamentally different purpose, such as informing the public, or search

Which should it be? Judge Pierre Leval thought the requirement for Fair Use should be that it would "fulfill the objective of copyright law to stimulate creativity for public illumination", which might be either. But the first option does come close to describing derivative works.

Theft! A Musical History: Bridgeport case at p 173 (link in the Music Sampling case)

Drake and Jimmy Smith update

Kelly / Perfect 10

Cariou v Prince

Google v Oracle

Does the Napster model work for film?

Laws

Sony v Universal, 1984

Dowling, 1985

Feist v Rural, 1991: it has to be original

MGM v Grokster

DMCA

OCILLA

Mail & Guardian

Viacom v YouTube

Server-based filesharing and SOPA/PIPA (laws that seemed inevitable but which ultimately did not pass)

Lawsuits against Users

Google Books