To prepare for the seminar, folks should browse these sites with an eye to identifying the key issues and the positions that are taken by various participants:

• The Electronic Freedom Foundation, http://www.eff.org/
• The Digital Millennium Copyrght Law, http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
• The Recording Industries of America Association, http://www.riaa.org/
• The Microsoft .NET Initiative, http://www.microsoft.com/net/
• The Open Knowledge Initiative, http://www.mit.edu/oki/
• Computer Scientists for Social Responsibility, http://www.cpsr.org/

Notes for this session will appear at http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/cs292 and ongoing links will be collected at http://lemming.uvm.edu/~blogger/