Fall 2002
Class meetings: Thursdays, 2-5 in room 26-210
Course Calendar
| Class | Topic |
| There is a special pre-class writing assignment that must be completed before 5 PM on Wednesday, September 4. No one will be admitted to the class without having completed the assignment. | |
| Sept. 5 | Course overview and introduction |
| Everyone who is admitted to the course should register for the writing rotisserie on Thursday evening, September 5, in order to get the writing assignment that will be posted on Friday morning. | |
| Sept. 12 | Background in Encryption and PKI |
| Sept. 19 | Content regulation in broadcasting and on the Internet |
| Sept. 26 | Introduction to intellectual property law |
| Oct. 3 | Fair use |
| Oct. 10 | The Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
| Oct. 17 | Trusted Platforms: Palladium and the TCPA. Class meets 2:00-5:00 at 200 Tech Square, room 518. |
| Oct. 24 | Threat models; Initial round of progress reports on team projects |
| Oct. 31 | Second round of progress reports on team projects |
| Written progress report on paper due November 7. | |
| Nov. 7 | Guest: Mike Godwin |
| Nov. 14 | Team reports from trusted platform and digital rights language teams |
| Nov. 21 | Team reports from broadcast flag and peer-to-peer teams |
| Final paper drafts are due December 2. Send these by email to Hal, Barb, Danny, and Joe. | |
| Dec. 5 | TBA |
| Final papers are due December 11. |
Student Papers
| Omar Bakr, Hareesh Nair, Aman Narang, Tony Scelfo | TCPA and Palladium: Are the benefits of harware changes enough to justify an upgrade? |
| Roshan Baliga, Deb Dasgupta, Anna Dreyer, Allan Friedman | Underlying Motivations in the Broadcast Flag Debate Note: A revised version of this paper appears in the August-September 2004 issue of the journal Telecommunications Policy |