Subjects 2008
Copyright Law 730838
- Credited Courses: Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law 276; Master of Commercial Law 504; Master of Intellectual Property Law 277; Master of Laws by Coursework (LLM) 502
Objectives
A candidate who has successfully completed the subject should:
- Understand the structure of the Australian copyright system and its economic and social rationales
- Understand the nature of the international copyright system
- Understand and apply the principles relating to copyright protection in Australia.
Syllabus
Principal topics will include:
- The evolution and theory of the national and international copyright system
- The material protected by copyright
- The duration of protection
- The rights granted by copyright Infringement of copyright, including defences and available remedies
- Ownership, licensing and assignment of copyright
- Moral rights and their infringement Technological and other collateral forms of protection
- The international copyright conventions.
