Law and the Culture Industries - LAWS8139
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Academic Program must be 9200 or 5740 or 9210 or 5265 or 9214 or 5214 or 9220 or 5750 or 8281 (min 75 WAM) or 8232 (min 75 WAM).
Excluded: JURD7639
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course examines the regulation of the cyberspace, with a focus on the culture industries: Arts, Film, Broadcasting, Music, Gaming, Telecommunications and Social Media. Innovation and technological convergence creates opportunities for new and enhanced leisure and social activities, but these developments often concurrently raise issues across intellectual property, content regulation, defamation, broadcasting, and privacy laws. This course evaluates this intersection between legal, technological, political and economic issues, in addition to considering the role of and need for national law reform, international treaties, industry bodies and standards, and technologies of control.
LLM Specialisations
Innovation Law.
Media and Technology Law.
Main topics
LLM Specialisations
Innovation Law.
Media and Technology Law.
Main topics
- Introduction to media regulation, intellectual property, privacy and defamation laws; trade barriers; national innovation policy; and global policies affecting the Internet and entertainment industries
- Big Media content online: entertainment franchises
- Google World: the rise of Google as search engine and beyond, and corresponding legal issues
- Social Media and User Generated-Content: The legal rights and responsibilities of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social media users
- Technology as Liberation: the promise of technological convergence and the pitfalls of national regulation, including peer to peer file sharing and legal avenues for accessing content
- Consumer rights, property and virtual property rights
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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