Grading Information
Grades were distributed on April 25, 2007. Here are two model papers that
received top scores:
one
two
Critical Information
All of the instructions to the exercise are here.
Important Dates
- Wed, March 7: In class, discussion of assignment and description of roles. Reading has been assigned for March 7.
- Thu, March 8: Students must e-mail TOP THREE role choices to Professor Ohm by 5pm.
- Mon, March 19: In-Class Legislative Drafting Assignment
- Mon, April 9: Students must hand in written assignments by start of class.
Important Links/Documents
- H.R. 5439, the bill we are considering.
- U.S. Copyright Office's Orphan Works page including link to full report.
- Excerpt of Copyright Office's report, to be read for class, Wednesday, March 7.
- A read-only, public copy of the meeting agenda is online. To edit this document, you need to e-mail your Google ID to Professor Ohm by Sunday evening, March 18.
- A read-only, public copy of the marked-up bill is online.
Roles and Student Assignments
- Rep. Coble (R-NC)*: Emily Vandenberg
- Rep. Smith (R-TX)*: Mark Walker
- Rep. Berman (D-CA)*: Micah Schwalb
- Harvard Univ. Library (639): Roni Melamed
- J. Paul Getty Trust, Metropolitan Museum, Guggenheim Found. (610): Nicole Vaughn and Allison Lott
- American Libraries Association: Joan Kim
- The Imagery Alliance** (Particularly the non-Photography Members such as Illustrator’s Partnership of Am. (661) & Graphic Artists Guild (547)): Lori Mayall and Scott Turner
- Am. Soc. of Media Photographers** & Professional Photographers of Am. (668 / 642): Hugh Markfield, Mark Changaris, and Annie Haselfeld
- Larry Lessig**: Chris Sharp and J.P. Martin
- Assoc. of Am. Publishers (605): Cleo Steele and Alex Ortiz
- The Harry Fox Agency (690): Chris McCoy and Rose Banning
- ASCAP (628): Brian Geoghegan and Matthew Aguirre
- RIAA (687): Courtney Kramer and Kyle Sauer
- MPAA (646): Andy Kuo and Matt Peters
- Microsoft (695): Michael Beylkin and Chris Lane
- Google (681): Merlin Arduini and Rae Sailor
- Public Knowledge** (629): Georgia Viado, Grant Sullivan and Kathleen Moroney
- Creative Commons (643): Lindsey Bates, Jonathan Buerge, and Emily Cameron
- Copyright Clearance Center (691): Joe Chen
- Internet Archive (657): Julia Fuschino and Venu Menon
- Kernochan Ctr. for Law, Media, Arts, Columbia Law (666): Josh Finkelstein and Tim Trost
- Glushko-Samuelson IP Law Clinic, American University (595): Courtney West
- MIT Libraries [fn291] (515): Mike Varco
Word version of role assignments.
* These roles aren't required to hand in a written assignment, but they will have more work to do before and during the exercise.
** These roles are especially important/vocal participants in the debate. More than one student will be assigned each of these.