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INFOSYS 296A-2
Syllabus

Intellectual Property and the Future of
the Information Society

Peter Lyman
Pam Samuelson

 


Possible Paper Topics 

Proposed database protection legislation

Patents on business methods

Constitutionality of Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

Implications of Hyperlaw decision for authoritativeness of legal information

Does the first sale principle apply at all to digital information?

Enforceability of open source or "copy-left" licenses

What copyright policy is appropriate to promote distance education?

University-faculty-student issues regarding ownership of classroom performances

Copyright issues arising from archiving the Internet or World Wide Web

Models of electronic commerce in copyright materials

Concept of information in Article 2B of the UCC

Campaign contributions of copyright industries as an influence on intellectual property policy

CONFU (Conference on Fair Use) guidelines

Implications of Reno v. ACLU for copyright policy

Copyright policy or strategy for developing nations in information age

Proposed international treaty to protect folklore/indigenous art or knowhow

Copyright policy or strategy for some other specified nation

Concept of intellectual property in William Gibson's Neuromancer (or other science fiction involving an information future)

Propertization of personal information as a way to protect privacy


 

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