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Introduction to Copyright Law
"This course is an introduction to copyright law and American law in general. Topics covered include: structure of federal law; basics of legal research; legal citations; how to use LexisNexis®; the 1976 Copyright Act; copyright as applied to music, computers, broadcasting, and education; fair use; Napster®, Grokster®, and Peer-to-Peer file-sharing; Library Access to Music Project; The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act; DVDs and encryption;...
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- Material Type:
- Online Course
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- June 19, 2012
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- February 9, 2016
- Author:
- Keith Winstein, MIT
- Submitter:
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Cathy Swift
- Primary Audience:
- College Lower Division, College Upper Division
- Technical Format:
- Video
- Mobile Compatibility:
- Not specified at this time
- Language:
- English
- Cost Involved:
- No
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- Unknown
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- Unknown
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
