Week 4

Monday Class at Harvard: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss -- From Broadcast to Webcast (Zittrain)

As a bookend to explorations of copyright on the Net, this session will explore the compulsory licensing scheme that seeks to extract royalties from online webcasters.

We will consider the technology behind webcasting and the fears of copyright holders in coming to understand the death - or at least dearth - of a new industry amidst the complexities of copyright legislation.