A very interesting and well-done course on many of the vagaries of US copyright law from MIT OCW (video lectures) that might be relevant to the discussion: htt

A very interesting and well-done course on many of the vagaries of US copyright law from MIT OCW (video lectures) that might be relevant to the discussion: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-912January--IAP--2006/CourseHome/ http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... Especially lectures three and four: 3) Copyright applied to Music, Computers; Napster®; Peer-to-Peer File Sharing 4) Software Licensing; DVDs and Encryption