ABOUT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Intellectual property, or “IP,” is at the center of some of today’s most important legal disputes, such as YouTube videos, the Google Books project, file-sharing, user-generated content, and more.  This course serves as a survey of the major areas of IP law, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and right of publicity.  Studies will often go beyond cases and statutes to the “real world” of IP practice.  In so doing, we’ll consider historical and modern IP disputes, with an eye towards an integrated understanding of IP doctrine, theory, policy, and practice.