Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger)/13

Agenda

After last week's successful editing party, I think we'll have another and final one. Except maybe we'll sit more in a circle. I'll also be give a version my version of the History of IP in 5 chalked graphical symbols or less.

Homework

1. I think we'll have this week and another editing party to finalize our wikiprojects, and then we can wrap up the course. Work on your wikiproject until you have more questions and then bring those in.
2. Has it been cool using Wikipedia as our class website? I'm writing a presentation on using Wikipedia for this new purpose that I'm going to give at a conference in August. In the discussion page (anonymously if you wish) please give your thoughts about participating in the first-ever(!) class doing their homework and organization on Wikipedia. My questions are:

• Do you think it made you more comfortable in editing article pages, having done your homework on Wikipedia pages too?
  • Did it make learning the technical mark-up symbols easier?
  • Do you feel like you explored wiki culture (e.g. article deletion policies) more now that you were already on the site for other purposes.
• What drawbacks do you see in using Wikipedia for our homework and classpage (opposed to bsapce or other)?

Optional

I'll give a fun short unlecture on these readings in class, but you can read them for yourself too.

• Intellectual Property and It’s History – Hesse, Carla. “The Rise of Intellectual Property, 700 B.C.-A.D. 2000: An Idea in the Balance,” Daedalus (Spring 2002). http://www.amacad.org/publications/spring2002/hesse.pdf [pps 26 - 37]

• Posner, Richard. “The Law & Economics of Intellectual Property” Daedalus, Vol. 131, No. 2, On Intellectual Property (Spring, 2002). http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027754 [navigate through lib.berkeley.edu E-Journals > Search: “Daedalus” > Vol 131 No.2]