Class meeting #4 – File-sharing and copyright – Monday 9/24

Readings:

Katz, p. 114-135 only

Katz, Mark. 2010. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Koebler, Jason. 2016. “Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism.” Motherboard (blog). March 23, 2016. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7eyg/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-angola-pirates-zero-rating.
Nowak, Raphaël, and Andrew Whelan. 2014. “Editorial: On the 15-Year Anniversary of Napster - Digital Music as Boundary Object.” First Monday 19 (10). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5542.
paleotronic. 2018. “Confessions of a Disk Cracker: The Secrets of 4am.” Paleotronic Magazine (blog). June 15, 2018. https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/15/confessions-of-a-disk-cracker-the-secrets-of-4am/.

Response:

In class, we will discuss the proposition that “anti-piracy legislation harms musical creativity”. Prepare two or three points on both sides of the proposition that draw on the reading for support, and be ready to discuss them in class. You don’t have to post a reply this week but you will be expected in class to have your points to hand, so you might benefit from writing them down somewhere.

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