Intellectual Property and Fair Use Seminar

Grading

The course will meet once a week for two hours (officially, 1 hour and 50 minutes) per week. Additional activities to justify the award of three credits will include group activity to work on a “case-study” style evaluation project to review a proposed fair use of copyrighted work (a hypothetical or based-on-real-life situation), draft litigation documents (complaint and answer), and prepare a summary judgment motion and response. Students will also be assigned (in teams of 2 or 3 depending on the number of students) to be the “discussion leaders” for several of the class sessions. Additional evaluation will be through a written paper on a topic of the student’s choosing, and a presentation of their paper in class. The final seminar grade will be based on all of these elements.