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 5265 or 9214 or 5214 or 9220 or 5750 or 8281 (min 75 WAM) or 8232 (min 75 WAM).
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 Specialisations
Innovation Law.
Media and Technology Law.
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