Here’s a link to the slideshow from last week. Some of the transitions are a bit off… Links to the two videos in the Fair Use Section are below.

Here’s Part One of it on Youtube, the subsequent parts are also available there

I’m prepping for a couple of lectures on Digital Copyright Issues… The notes may as well double as blog posts…

1. The world’s first copyright statute was the Statue of Anne – enacted April 10, 1710 – The statute protected the interests of authors and proprietors of existing books for 21 years from the date of publication and gave owners of new works sole liberty of printing and reprinting such a book for the term of 14 years. The statute offered a right of renewal of a further 14 years after the first expired if the author/owner was still alive, no such renewal was available if the book was already in print.
2. The original intent of the Statute of Anne was not so much the restriction of copying but the encouragement of creation. Giving people the right to profit from a work was intended to encourage people to continue working on creative projects.