Law and the Culture Industries - LAWS8139
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: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Academic Program must be 9200 or 5740 or 9210 or 9230 or 5265 or 9214 or 5214 or 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: JURD7639
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
LLM Specialisation
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- 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
Short essay plan | 500 - 1,000 words | 20% |
Research essay | 5,000 words | 80% |
Course Texts
Prescribed
Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer at the beginning of session.
Recommended
Kathy Bowrey, Law and Internet Cultures, (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Resources