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
Main topics
- Introduction to media regulation, intellectual property, privacy and defamation laws; trade barriers; national innovation policy; and global policies affecting the Internet and entertainment industries
- Big Media content online: entertainment franchises
- Google World: the rise of Google as search engine and beyond, and corresponding legal issues
- Social Media and User Generated-Content: The legal rights and responsibilities of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social media users
- Technology as Liberation: the promise of technological convergence and the pitfalls of national regulation, including peer to peer file sharing and legal avenues for accessing content
- Consumer rights, property and virtual property rights.