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221 CCN: 42712 3 unit(s) |
Information Policy | |
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| Instructor(s) | Yale Braunstein E-mail: yale@sims.berkeley.edu Office: 203B South Hall Office hours: Mon-Tue 2-3 Telephone: (510) 642-2235 |
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| Time/Location | MW 11:00 - 12:30 202 South Hall |
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| Aug. 25 | Introduction to information policy & overview
of the course |
1 |
| Aug. 27 |
The nature of "information policy": what it includes, who
makes it, analytical tools used |
1 |
| Sept. 3 | International aspects; cultural issues, including "The EU View" |
2 |
| Sept. 8-10 | Consumers issues (emphasis on health & medicine
information--see below for links) |
3 |
| Sept. 15 | Infrastructure |
4 |
| Sept. 22-24 |
Intellectual property rights: legal & economic analysis; Coase's Theorem; focus on
database rights (ppt; zip) |
5 |
| Sept. 27 |
Intellectual freedom |
6 |
| Oct. 1 |
Access, universal service, interconnection | 7, 9 |
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| Oct. 8 |
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| Oct. 13 |
Privacy |
8 |
| Oct. 15 |
Public vs. private provsion of
information; user fees |
10, 11 |
| Oct. 20 |
Information markets, externalities, competition policy | 12 |
| Oct. 22 |
Mass media, common carriage, media ownership |
13 |
| Oct. 27 |
Broadband
industry structure |
13 |
| Oct. 29 |
Technical
compatibility standards |
15 |
| Nov. 3 |
Trans-border data flows |
16 |
| Nov. 5 |
National
security (also see "The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" website) |
14 |
| Nov. 10 |
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| Nov. 12 |
David Schlossberg - Reverse
engineering Brandon Sloane - MP3 |
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| Nov. 17 |
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| Nov. 19 |
Vijay Raghunathan - DCMA |
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| Nov. 24 |
Lucie Tuan - Medical information
privacy (case study) |
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| Nov. 26 |
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| Dec. 1 |
Michael Schattner - IPR and
technology Cristina Mufato - International contracts for information Katrina Templeton - Spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail) |
NOTE: (*) These sections are numbered to match the web version of the course outline.
Additional Links
General Information