Assignment for April 29, 2009

Assignment for April 29, 2009

Policy Issues for Online Content….and the Court of Public Opinion

• Review the executive summary of a Congressional Research Service report on Internet Policies – while dated it gives an overview of the range of policy issues that need to continually be addressed:
o http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/crs/43369.pdf

• Take a look at the issues and underlying Briefing Books prepared for 2008 Conference for the Congressional Internet Caucus – both the overall agenda and as a resource on specific issues:
o http://netcaucus.org/conference/2008

• As for op-eds on Viacom v. Google/YouTube, read:
o http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117392637770937728.html
o http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301451.html

• For some commentaries by fellow/former LLM students, see:
o http://creativity2dot0.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-impression-of-viacom-v-youtube.html

IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY POSTED YOUR OWN COMMENTARIES REGARDING ONLINE CONTENT, VIACOM V GOOGLE, CREATIVE COMMONS, GOOGLE BOOKS, OR OTHER RELATED TOPICS, PLEASE DO SO ON BLOG.

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE POSTED SOMETHING, FEEL FREE TO CONTRIBUTE MORE!

We will spend half of the class discussing some policy questions and the role of public opinion, then half of the class working on your projects/presentations in Stakeholder Teams.