| Dr. TyAnna Herrington | Skiles 23 | Office hours- MW 10-11 & by arrangement | 404.894.6207 |
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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 examine the pragmatic aspects of the law to understand 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 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 and negatively impact grades.
external reading responses
Students will locate, summarize, and present material from 10 external article readings during the semester. These readings should form the basis of the analytical projects 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 specific, focused questions 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 clear 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 5%
external reading responses 20%
analytical artifact 70%, broken down as follows:grading
august
m 17- introduction to course
w 19- view Larry Lessig's TED talk
f 21- collect IP data- applied exercise
m 24- ideology and law Constitutional basis, balance, law and policy
w 26- read Patterson and Lindberg ch 9
f 28- Patterson and Lindberg ch 9 contd
september
m 31- history, read Patterson & Lindberg ch 2 w 2- history P&L ch 2 contd
f 4- protections, generally
m 7- university holiday
w 9- protections, generally, cont
f 11- copyright
m 14- copyright, contd
w 16- copyright, contd
f 18- fair use
m 21- fair use, cont
w 23- fair use, contd
f 25- work for hire
m 28- work for hire, contd
w 30- proposal discussion, discussion of potential topics
october
f 2- online case study and discussion, proposal, contd
m 5- school recess
w 7- read Jaszi and Woodmansee
f 9- begin article summaries and discussion- responses due as they're discussed in class
m 12- article summaries and discussion, read i-safe
w 14- article summaries and discussion
f 16- article summaries and discussion, read Slater
m 19- article summaries and discussion
w 21- article summaries and discussion, read Public Domain Day post
f 23- continue work with articles
m 26- continue work with articles
w 28- informal progress reports begin
f 30- continue informal progress reports
november
m 2- continue informal progress reports, read Herrington "The Interdependency of Fair Use and the First Amendment"
w 4- proposal due, article summaries and discussion, discussion of oral presentation
f 6- DMCA
m 9- DMCA contd, TEACH Act
w 11- continue article summaries and discussion
f 13- continue article summaries and discussion
m 16- presentations begin, *****final proposals due*****
w 18- presentations
f 20- presentations-
m 23- presentations
w 25- presentations
f 26- Thanksgiving
m 30- presentations
december
w 2- presentations
f 4- presentations, last day of class - final projects, all work due schedule of classes