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Intellectual Property Policy and Law
provides an overview of intellectual property law and the policy issues that shape and drive it. Course participants will examine the pragmatic aspects of the law to understand definitions of areas of product protection (such as trademark, patent, and copyright), the extent of protection afforded to creative products, limitations on product control, and operation of special treatment areas such as work for hire, among others . They will also examine the effects of policy on interpretation, application, and creation of law within the frameworks of differing ideological structures, particularly as they are influenced by the Internet and digitized communication. Assignments include reading and discussion, hard copy critical analyses, and/or digital products.
Description of Assignments
Readings/Participation
Students are responsible for all course readings on the day assigned. Failure to complete the readings can severely hinder ability to understand the information covered.
External Reading Responses
Students will locate, summarize, and present material from 10 external article readings, to be presented from March 13 through April 10. These readings should focus form the basis of the analytical project work that students will do in another course-related assignment and provide the rest of the class with a database of sources from which to draw information.
Analytical Artifact
Students will produce final analytical projects that will answer focused questions of their choice in intellectual property. They must ask and answer a specific question in an area of their choice in intellectual property. They may submit an analysis in a more traditional print-based medium or may choose to submit a project in a digital medium or combination of media. All projects must provide documentation to explain their theoretical bases, reasoning for technological media choices, a clearly explained synthesis of their ideas and choices, and a final artifact that answers the question asked. To enhance the learning of all course participants, students will present their findings in class.
Projects will include
compilation of reading response articles already submitted for course credit,
proposal,
final artifact,
oral presentation of project
Readings/Participation º 10%
External Reading Responses º 20%
Analytical Artifact º 70%, broken down as follows:Grading
August
19- introduction to course
21- ideology and law
26- read Bolter foreword, Constitutional basis, balance, law and policy
28- read Patterson and Lindberg ch 9
September
2- history, Patterson Lindberg ch 2
4- protections, copyright generally
9- copyright generally, contd
11- fair use
16- fair use, contd
18- work for hire
23- work for hire, contd
25- proposal discussion, discussion of potential topics
30- read Jaszi and Woodmansee
October
2- research day to prepare bib for article summaries
7- read Karjala, begin article summaries and discussion
9- article summaries and discussion
14- Midterm Break
16- informal progress reports
21- continue informal progress reports
23- continue informal progress reports, read Herrington "The Interdependency of Fair Use and the First Amendment"
28- Proposal Due, article summaries and discussion, discussion of oral presentation
November
4- DMCA
6- TEACH Act
11- continue article summaries and discussion
13- continue article summaries and discussion
18- presentations
20- presentations
25- presentations
December
2- presentations
4- Last Day of Class - wrap-up all work due Schedule of Classes