Internet Law Exercise 2

Introduction to copyright and intellectual property.

Read the following:

1. GigaLaw Text pages 3-45

2. Take a voyage [below] to Copyright Bay and visit Fair Use Harbor. Below the South point of the compass at Copyright Bay, click on "Purpose". Then read "How it works". This will give you a map [of sorts] for the voyage. Continue on to visit all the harbor locations.

There is no presumption that you have already studied "intellectual property [IP]". The legal issues raised  involving the internet and IP are boundless and end the same as sailing on "the flat earth".

Visit to Copyright Bay and Fair Use Harbor
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/coprbay/fairuse.htm

Supplementary information to browse. Answer the question that follows:

http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/copynet.htm

Database Protection - H.R. 2652

Task Force Executive Summary on Intellectual Property.

Answer this question:

The facts

I want to reprint eleven (21) pages from a booklet published in 1983 by Gozegeek University Press. The author(s) were graduate students at the University and the booklet is an anthology of their respective doctoral dissertations. There is no "reproduction" prohibition anywhere in the materials. I will need to reprint 20 sets for use in a course I will be teaching in five weeks. Am I in "fair use harbor" or heading for a maelstrom? Explain.

Would I be protected if I want to make the pages into a PDF file and post it on the web for my students to access. Explain.

See:The TEACH Act http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/teachact.htm

Send me an e-mail with your reasoned response (200-300 words).

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