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Session 8: Copyright, Intellectual Property & Emerging Technology
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• Intro & objectives
• What are copyright & intellectual property?
• What's special about the Internet?
• Considerations for online courses
  

• Introduction: Copyright basics
  >> What's a "tangible" medium?
  >> The Berne Convention
  >> The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Exclusive rights
  >> Work for hire
  >> Public domain
• Fair use
• Trademarks
  >> Trademark ownership rights

• What is infringement?
• Contributory & vicarious infringement
• Assessing infringement
• Trademark infringement & the Internet

• Copyright & digital technologies
• Databases
• Linking
• Framing
• Caching
• Metatags

• Summary of issues
• Copyright policies
• Links
  >> Links for course developers
  >> Links on fair use
  >> Links for general copyright info
  >> Mailing lists