Final exam period. Share portfolios and reflections. Eat delicious food.

Sharing your portfolio face-to-face with the group is a component of the grade for the final project.

In-Class

Reflection exercise to be included in final assignment.

In-Class

Reflection exercise and review final assignment.

Writing

Indiegogo campaign due.

Reading

Writing and Community Action: pp. 425-436.

Writing

Post a link to your Indiegogo video/slideshow pitch to your blog. We will be viewing these videos in class.

Reading

Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. PDF pages 92-107 (note that these are not the actual page numbers in the book). The assignment is to read the second part of Chapter 4: “RW, Revived.”

Writing

Post your Indiedgogo badge/logo to your blog and be prepared to talk about it in class. We will be viewing these logos in class.

In-Class

• Explain Lessig’s argument about the right to quote or remix.
• Describe the three layers of the system that makes the range of what was initially unfiltered content understandable.

Reading

Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. PDF pages 75-92 (note that these are not the actual page numbers in the book). The assignment is to read the first part of Chapter 4: “RW, Revived.”

In-Class

One-on-one workshop day. Come with questions about the Indiegogo campaign, particularly the media elements. I will not be taking roll.

Reading

Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. PDF pages 47-59 (note that these are not the actual page numbers in the book). The assignment is to read Chapter 1: “Cultures of Our Past” and Chapter 2: “Cultures of Our Future.”

Writing

Come to class having selected images and videos for your pitch video.

Discussion Questions

1. Explain why the invention of the player piano and the phonograph were watershed moments in the history of (intellectual) property. Name two or three other moments you believe to be on par with these.
2. Summarize Sousa’s argument about the importance of amateurism and his critique of “these infernal machines.”
3. What are the differences between Read Only (RO) culture and Read/Write (RW) culture? Describe the development of RO culture through the twentieth century.
4. Which of these cultures do you feel more closely connected with? Why?

Writing

Post final draft of proposal to your blog (due 11:59 pm). Please post in MS-Word format (.doc or .docx) or rich-text format (.rtf).

Writing

Bring hard copy of proposal to class for peer edit.