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Law and the Culture Industries - JURD7639

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.

Excluded: LAWS8139

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course considers the regulation of cyberspace. In 2008 there will be a particular consideration of future directions for the entertainment industries: Arts, Film, Broadcasting, Music, Gaming and Telecommunications. Innovation and technological convergence creates opportunities for new and enhanced leisure and social activities. These developments raise controversies in the industries affecting old media regulation, intellectual property laws, cultural policy, free speech, content regulation, competition and innovation policy. Regulation via national law reform, international treaties, industry bodies, industry standards, opinion makers, and technologies of control (digital rights management DRM, surveillance, tracking) are considered.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

A candidate who has successfully completed this subject should:

Describe the challenges of regulation in this area
Identify the various pressures on the development of regulation
Assess possible future directions and conflicts
Demonstrate the above analytical knowledge and skills in relation to a case study

Main Topics

Overview of media regulation, innovation policy, intellectual property law, trade barriers, global policies affecting the internet and the entertainment industries
Technology as Liberation: the promise of technological convergence, mass access on demand to digitised content, high interactivity, freedom to create, innovate, distribute and trade
Regulation by global industry and technical standards
Innovation as Regulatory Disruption: Can IP, IT and Media law and the courts keep up with the pace of change?
The rights of user generated content: YouTube, MySpace, Blogs, FaceBook, Flickr, MySpace, Wikipedia, Google Library,
Big Media content online: entertainment franchises
Consumer Rights, Property and virtual property rights
Globalisation and information society policy
Regional approaches to cultural and telecommunications policy

Assessment