Intellectual Property Overload!
This semester it's going to all IP, all the time!
I just dropped Health Law (I'm doing the "practice" version in my Public Policy clinc and it's a boring subject anyway) and signed up for a seminar on the Theoretical Foundations of Intellectual Property law, which will, "evaluate and compare a variety of theoretical foundations for recognizing or refusing to recognize legal ownership of intangible intellectual goods."
This makes me very happy. I am a nerd.
The other seminar I am taking is Comparative Cyberspace/Telecommunications Law, covering such exciting topics as
I just dropped Health Law (I'm doing the "practice" version in my Public Policy clinc and it's a boring subject anyway) and signed up for a seminar on the Theoretical Foundations of Intellectual Property law, which will, "evaluate and compare a variety of theoretical foundations for recognizing or refusing to recognize legal ownership of intangible intellectual goods."
This makes me very happy. I am a nerd.
The other seminar I am taking is Comparative Cyberspace/Telecommunications Law, covering such exciting topics as
- free speech on the Internet (watch out, Claire!)
- telecommunications competition and development
- Internet privacy
- copyright and domain names
- spectrum policy and wireless communications
- jurisdiction
This makes me happy too. I am an incredible nerd.
Both courses are writing courses--meaning no exams this semester and words cannot DESCRIBE how happy THAT make me--so I shall probably have to come up with a subject for a term paper relating to the Internet and intellectual property...
Oh gee...wonder what I'll write about?
My IP class professor knows about my fanfiction hobby, so she may want me to write about something else. Perhaps the Purdue v. Brown case and scenes a faire...
And next semester I'm taking Trademarks.
posted by Jocelyn Smith | 2:30 PM
1 Comments:
(Also obsessing over hurricane coverage. Gads.)
As far as fighting words and violence incitement goes, I absolutely agree. But speech that is "irresponsible" should not automatically be banned.
Lots of speech is irresponsible: people who deliberately twist the truth for political purposes, or slander/libel, etc...but the slippery slope into a world of prior restraints is a very real thing. I know it doesn't seem that way sometimes, but it looms in a lot of ways, especially in this age of amorphous targets in the war on terror.
Still, since I plan to make the free speech/free culture on the Internet my topic for my paper for that class, I should have some interesting stuff in my research to post here!
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