EDUCAUSE Live! December 11, 2006 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Copyright Infringement from the Inside: Student Perspectives on Music Piracy

Special Guest

Ross Housewright
Graduate Student
School of Information Management & Systems
University of California, Berkeley

Ross Housewright is a master’s student at UC Berkeley's School of Information, and a graduate of Cornell University's undergraduate Information Science program. He has previously interned at the American Library Association and the Center for Democracy and Technology, has been a teaching assistant for courses on "Culture, Law and Policy of the Internet" and the "History of Information," and is currently a clinical intern at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic. Ross is interested in pursuing a career in information policy after graduating from the School of Information this spring.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Ross Housewright, and the topic will be "Copyright Infringement from the Inside: Student Perspectives on Music Piracy."

In response to increasing rates of media piracy, particularly among college-aged students, the content industry has tried a variety of methods to dissuade questionable file-sharing practices, including airing commercials, filing lawsuits, and urging schools to provide access to sanctioned legal services, but progress to date has been minimal. Students themselves have not been consulted about their actual attitudes and behavior in this arena, although diverse motives have been ascribed to them. To gain a richer understanding of this key demographic, 42 undergraduates from a major East Coast university were interviewed at length about their media-acquisition habits and their responses to industry antipiracy efforts. This presentation will cover the students’ viewpoints on this controversial topic.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• P2P or File Sharing
• Copyright Infringement
• Piracy
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars