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Meeting
Times:
Monday
1500-1700
Earlham Hall
Apple Loft
Thursday
1600-1800
Congregation Hall
Room 01.12
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The materials listed below are generally found online. If you have any difficulty accessing them, please notify me via E-mail (robert.heverly@uea.ac.uk).
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Class 1
Monday, 27 September
Required Reading
Class 2
Thursday 30 September
Required Reading
Class 3
Monday 5 October
Required Reading
- James Boyle, The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain, 66 Law & Contemp. Probs. 33 (Winter/Spring 2003) [pdf version available]
- Yochai Benkler, Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information, 52 Duke L.J. 1245 (2003) [pdf also available]
- Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom, Artifacts, Facilities, and Content: Information as a Common-pool Resource (Conference on the Public Domain, 2001) [pdf]
- Daniel J. Kevles, Patenting Life: An Historical Overview of Law, Interests, and Ethics (2001) [pdf]
- Darrell A. Posey and Graham Dutfield, Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, Chapter 8: Are Intellectual Property Rights Useful? (1995).
- Covenant on Intellectual, Cultural and Scientific Resources
- Declaration of Principles of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
Class 4
Thursday 7 October
Note about Westlaw and LEXIS resources: To open Westlaw or LEXIS links, you must first be signed into the required resource using Athens Authentication.
- To sign in to Westlaw, click here [a new window will open];
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Press "I agree" at the bottom of the page;
Leave the window that appears after entering your Athens ID open and return to this page;
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If, after clicking a link, a Westlaw search page opens, simply click "go" on that page and the article should open.
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Leave the window that appears after entering your Athens ID open and return to this page;
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Required Reading
- The Statute of Anne (review for remedies provisions)
- TRIPS, Part III: Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (Articles 41-61)
- Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights [pdf]
- IP Justice, "Protecting Civil Liberties, Competition and Innovation in the EU Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive” (2004) [pdf]
- Mark Shankerman and Suzanne Scotchmer, Damages and Injunctions in Protecting Intellectual Property, Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 32, No. 1, p. 199-220 (Spring 2001) [pdf]
- Business Software Alliance, First Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study (July 2004) [pdf]
- Chappell v. United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights, [1989] ECHR 4 (March 1989)
- R. v. Treatment of Overheads in Profit Calculation, Case I ZR 246/98, Bundesgerichtshof, Germany (Nov. 2000) [Westlaw link -- users will require Athens ID and password]
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Highly Recommended
Additional Recommended Reading
Class 5
Monday 11 October
Required Reading
Additional Reading
Class 6
Thursday 14 October
Required Reading
- Berne Convention: Articles 2-4
- EU Directive on the legal protection of computer programs, 91/250/EEC
- TRIPS: Article II, Section 1
- WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook, Chapter 2, pages 42-43; 46-50 (paragraphs 2.174-2.177; 2.202-2.224) [pdf]
- Leslie E. Kurtz, Speaking to the Ghost: Idea and Expression in Copyright, 47 U. Miami L. Rev. 1221 (1993) [Westlaw Link; please see above] [HeinOnline Link, please login to HeinOnline, as noted in class 2]
- David Brennan and Andrew Christie, Spoken Words and Copyright Sustinence in Anglo-American Law, I.P.Q. 2000, 4, 309-339 [Westlaw Link; please see above]
- Case Exerpts
Additional Reading
Class 7
Monday 18 October
Required Reading
- WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook, Chapter 2, pages 43-49; (paragraphs 2.178-2.219) [pdf]
- Berne Convention: Articles 5-14ter
- Virginia Morrison, Moral Rights Legislation in Force (2001) [pdf]
- Sheri Lyn Falco, The Moral Rights of Droit Moral: France's Example of Art as the Physical Manifestation of the Artist, M.E.L.O.N. 206:2 (1996)
- Mira T. Sundara Rajan, Moral Rights and Copyright Harmonisation: Prospects for an "International Moral Right"? 17th BILETA Annual Conference (2002)
- Basic Facts About Copyright, UK Patent Office
- What are the economic rights of copyright owners? UK Patent Office
- Michael Seadle, Copyright in the networked world: moral rights, Library HiTech 20:1 (2002)
- Guide on Surveying the Economic Contribution of the Copyright Based Industries, WIPO (2003); read pp. 13-35
- Ian Novos, The Effects of Increased Copyright Protection: An Analytic Approach, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol 92:2, pp. 236-246 (1984) [Jstor link: please see above for information on accessing Jstor articles]
Class 8
Thursday 21 October
Required Reading
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Chapter V: Dealing with Rights in Copyright Works
- Reuben Stone, Problems of International Film Distribution: Assignment and Licensing and the Conflict of Laws, Ent. L.R. 1996, 7(2), 62-75 [Westlaw link: see above for instructions for student access]
- Martin Kretschmer, The Failure of Property Rules in Collective Administration: Rethinking Copyright Societies as Regulatory Instruments, E.I.P.R. 2002, 24(3), 126-137 [Westlaw link: see above for instructions for student access]
- The Management of Copyright and Related Rights in the Internal Market (Text with EEA relevance), Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social - Committee, COM/2004/0261 final
- Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, WIPO [pdf version]
- GNU General Public License
- Licenses, The Open Source Initiative (review a few of the available licenses)
- Choose a License, Creative Commons (review the different kinds of licenses)
- Copyright Licenses and Assignments, BitLaw
- SCO v. IBM Executive Summary
Additional Reading
- Leonard DuBoff, Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Copyright Owner's Right to Terminate Licenses and Assignments, Ent. L.R. 2003, 14(5), 109-111
- Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kreile, Revenue from and distribution of the statutory levy on hardware and blank tapes used for private copying in Germany:
A system proves its worth, GEMA Yearbook 2001/2002
- Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kreile, Collecting Societies and the Information Society, GEMA Yearbook 1996/1997 (chapters I-V)
- Heather Rosenblatt, Copyright Assignments: Rights and Wrongs - The Collecting Societies' Perspective, I.P.Q. 2000, 2, 187-200
- Position Paper on the SCO-vc-IBM Complaint, Open Source Initiative
Class 9
Monday 25 October
Required Reading
- Intellectual Property Handbook, Chapter 2, pages 50- 53 (paragraphs 2.225-2.241), WIPO [pdf]
- Limitations on Exclusive Rights (U.S. law), Ladas & Perry
- Copyright Infringement (U.S. law), Ladas & Perry
- What is a Substantial Part? UK Patent Office
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, ss. 28-36 and ss. 16-27:
- Metronome Musik, GmBH v. Music Point Hokamp, GmBH, C-200/96, European Court of Justice (1999) [judgment]
- Suntrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 11th Circuit (2001) [pdf version here]
- Ben Challis & Jonathan Coad, Format fortunes -- is there now legal recognition for the television format right? (2004)
- Columbia Law Library Music Copyright Infringement Online Archive
- Review the following case studies by reviewing the included opinion, comments, briefly reviewing the musical score, and listening to audio file (the "midi" file is recommended)
- Blume v. Spear, 30 F.629 (1887)
- Repp v. Weber, 132 F.3d 882 (2d Cir. 1999)
Additional Reading
Class 10
Thursday 28 October
Required Reading
- Fred von Lohman, Fair Use and Digital Rights Management: Preliminary Thoughts on the (Irreconcilable?) Tension Between Them, Electronic Frontier Foundation (2002) [pdf]
- Pamela Samuelson, DRM {AND, OR, VS.} the Law, Communications of the ACM, 46:4 (April 2004) [pdf]
- Gavin Sutter, FE/HE Institutions and Liability for Third Party Provided Content, parts 1,2,3,6 & 7 JISC Legal Information Service (2003)
Additional Reading
- William Patry, Choice of Law and International Copyright, 48 Am. J. Comp. L. 383 (2000) [HeinOnline link: please see instructions above]
- P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Copyright, Contract and Code: What Will Remain of the Public Domain? 26 Brook. J. Int'l L. 77 (2000-2001) [HeinOnline link: please see instructions above]
- Unintended Consequences: Five Years Under the DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation (2003) [pdf]
- Note, Anti-circumvention: Has Technology Turned Against its Mother? 36 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 961 (2003) [HeinOnline link: please see instructions above]
- Rachna Damija & Fredric Wallenberg, A Framework for Evaluating Digital Rights Management Proposals, Berkeley School of Information Managements Systems (2003)
- Lionel S. Sobel, DRM as Enabler of Business Models: ISPs as Digital Retailers, Paper from the Berkeley DRM Conference (2003)
Class 11
Monday 1 November
Required Reading
Optional Reading
- Restatement, Unfair Competition [Lexis links]
- Paine, Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property: A Comment on Hettinger, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1991), pp. 247-263 [JStor link]
- Friedman, Landes, Posner, Some Economics of Trade Secret Law, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1991) pp. 61-72 [JStor links]
- Kewanee Oil Co v Bicron Corp,416 US 470 (U.S. Sup. Ct 1974)
- Du Pont v. Christopher, 431 F.2d 1012 (5th Cir. 1970).
Class 12
Thursday 4 November
Required Reading (may be skimmed)
Find the following, and take a look at their outline and structure, but do not attempt to read them in detail yet
Patent case study
Study the whole of the following European Patent for an ‘adaptive cruise control system’ EP 0 897 824 B1 (Ford Motor Co)Also find and look at these corresponding patents/applications by logging on to http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=EP0897824&F=8 and opening the pdf links at the right of the screen: US6116369, GB2328542 A, EP0897824 A. Why are these relevant? This page also contains links to what are called ‘cited documents’. Briefly look at these and be prepared to discuss what they are and why they are relevant.
Class 13
Monday 8 November
Required Reading
- TRIPS Articles 27-29
- European Patent Convention Articles 52-57 [choose either pdf or html version]
- European Patent Office "Guidelines for Examination"
- Part C Chapter III ‘Claims’ (sections 1 - 4 only)
- Chapter IV ‘Patentability’ sections 1 and 5 – 9
- Note 1: We will cover exceptions to patentability, and industrial applicability, in the final session of the five on patents.
- Note 2: I do not expect to reach ‘inventive step’ until Thursday so you may postpone your reading of section 9
- General Tire v. Firestone [1971] F.S.R. 417 (Court of Appeal, England). You only need read Section B ‘Anticipation’ [Westlaw link]
- G 2/88 MOBIL/Friction-Reducing Additive (EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal)
[EPO link; alternative Westlaw link here]
- G 1/92 ‘Availability to the Public’ (EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal) [EPO link; alternative Westlaw link here]
- Merrell Dow v Norton [1996] R.P.C. 76 (House of Lords) [westlaw link]
Optional Reading
Class 14
Thursday 11 November
Required Reading
Optional Reading
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