Computer Ethics, Week 3

Class 3 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.

The TikTok deal

I'm not sure what the deal really says, or whether ByteDance will really sell it to a US company.

But why the anti-TikTok law? There are two reasons sometimes given:

  1. China will collect information on what users watch
  2. China will sneak subtly biased messages into the content

But the First Amendment guarantees your right to read biased content. So maybe #1 is the main issue? The Supreme Court opinion seems to think so.

As for TikTok's much-vaunted algorithm, I don't think they have one. They just show you stuff similar to the stuff that other people who watched what you watched also liked. The hard AI part is in deciding what is "similar".

Finish Cariou v Prince

Finish Fair Use

RIAA lawsuits

Laws

Cases

DMCA