INFOSYS 296A-2 Syllabus |
Intellectual Property and the Future of the Information Society Peter Lyman Pam Samuelson
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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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