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Introduction to Copyright Law 6.912 MIT

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This course is an introduction to copyright law and American law in general. Topics covered include: structure of federal law; basics of legal research; legal citations; how to use LexisNexis®; the 1976 Copyright Act; copyright as applied to music, computers, broadcasting, and education; fair use; Napster®, Grokster®, and Peer-to-Peer file-sharing; Library Access to Music Project; The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act; DVDs and encryption; software licensing; the GNU® General Public License and free software.

Resources: OpenCourseware from MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford & many other of the World's finest University's.

Language: English

Professors: Michael Williams

Units: 6

Lesson content
  • Lawrence Lessig Law Intellectual rights  
  • Eric Steuer Creative Commons  
  • Lec 1 Introduction; Basics of Legal Research; Legal Citations  
  • Lec 2 LexisNexis(c); 1976 Copyright Act  
  • Lec 3 Copyright applied to Music, Computers; Napster(r); Peer-to-Peer File Sharing  
  • Lec 4 Software Licensing; DVDs and Encryption
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