Courses@Boalt
NOTE: Course offerings change. Classes offered this semester may not be offered in future semesters.278.31 sec. 1 - Copyright Law (Fall 2011)
Instructor: Andrew M Gass (view instructor's teaching evaluations)
View all teaching evaluations for this course
Units: 3
Meeting Time: W 6:25-9:05
Meeting Location: 132
Course Start: August 24, 2011
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49865
This course will begin with a discussion of the purposes of copyright law, will proceed to investigate the subject matter of copyright protection, criteria that works must meet to be eligible, who owns copyrights, what types of conduct authors have rights to control (and not control) certain kinds of uses of their works, special rules concerning transfers of rights, infringement standards, and remedies for infringement, and will consider constitutional, statutory, and common law dimensions of copyright and related rights such as anti-circumvention rules. Current controversies in copyright litigation, legislation, and scholarship will also be covered.
Andrew Gass is an attorney in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins. Mr. Gass focuses his practice on antitrust and intellectual property matters related to digital technology. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen F. Williams on the D.C. Circuit and an extern to the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the Ninth Circuit. His writings have appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education Review, and numerous other publications. He represented the University of California, the University of Michigan and Stanford University in the erstwhile Google Book Search settlement. Mr. Gass received his B.A. (magna cum laude) from Yale University and his J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
Exam Notes: TH
Course Category: Intellectual Property and Technology Law
If you are the instructor or their FSU, you may add a file like a syllabus or a first assignment to this page.
Readers:
No reader.
Books:
Required Books are in blue
- Copyright Global Information Economy, 2011 Case & Statutory Supplement
Julie E. Cohen, Lydia P. Loren, Ruth L. Okediji, Maureen O'Rourke,
Publisher: Aspen Law & Business
ISBN: 9780735508040
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: To Be Determined - Copyright in A Global Information Economy 3e
Julie E. Cohen, Lydia P. Loren,
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
ISBN: 9780735591967
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: To Be Determined
