| Dr. TyAnna Herrington | Skiles 23 | Office hours- 10-11 MW and 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.
External Reading Responses
Students will locate, summarize, and present material from 10 external article readings, to be presented from March 2 - April 13. These readings should form the basis of the analytical project 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 ¼ 10%
External Reading Responses ¼ 20%
Analytical Artifact ¼ 70%, broken down as follows:Grading
january
10- introduction to course
12- ideology and law
14- ideology and law cont
17- university holiday
19- read Bolter foreword, Constitutional basis, balance, law and policy
21- read Patterson and Lindberg ch 9
24- Patterson and Lindberg ch 9 contd
26-history, Patterson Lindberg ch 2
28- history P&L ch 2 contd
31- protections, generally
february
2- protections, generally, cont
4- copyright
7- copyright, contd
9- copyright, contd
11- fair use
14- fair use, cont
16- fair use, contd
18- work for hire
21- work for hire, contd
23- proposal discussion, discussion of potential topics
25- proposal, contd
28- read Jaszi and Woodmansee
march
2- begin article summaries and discussion- responses due as they're discussed in class
4- article summaries and discussion, read i-safe
7- article summaries and discussion
9- article summaries and discussion, read Slater
11- article summaries and discussion
14- article summaries and discussion, read Public Domain Day post
16- work online- case situation analysis
18- online case study and discussion
21-25- spring break
28- informal progress reports begin
30- continue informal progress reports
april
1- continue informal progress reports, read Herrington "The Interdependency of Fair Use and the First Amendment"
4- proposal due, article summaries and discussion, discussion of oral presentation
6- DMCA
8- DMCA contd, TEACH Act
11- continue article summaries and discussion
13- continue article summaries and discussion
15- presentations begin
18- presentations
20- presentations
22- presentations
25- presentations
27- presentations
29- last day of class - final projects, all work due
Schedule of Classes