Source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jdlitman/classes/copyright/syllabus.html
Timestamp: 2015-05-23 10:26:23
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 101', '§ 101', '§ 101', '§ 10', '§ 101', '§ 101', '§ 106', '§ 106', '§ 106', '§ 110', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 27', '§ 501']

Law 633: 2015 revised syllabus
Most recently revised: April 13, 2015
Final Revised Syllabus
(This syllabus will change frequently. It's a good idea to check back here after each class to find added links, optional excursions, and revised assignments.)
Julie E. Cohen, Lydia Pallas Loren, Ruth Gana Okediji
& Maureen A, O'Rourke, COPYRIGHT IN A GLOBAL INFORMATION ECONOMY (3d edition 2010) Cohen, Loren Okediji and O’Rourke 2013 Case SUPPLEMENT with 2014 Update (free download)
(This is a combined filed. You can find the Authors’ 2013 Case Supplement here and the 2014 update files here.)
A copy of the Copyright statute (available here, here, here, here, here, or here)
I have posted a website for this course at www.umich.edu/~jdlitman/classes/copyright.htm.
The website includes this syllabus page, a page with links to references, news, announcements, and items of curiosity, and a page with
recommendations for further optional reading. You should consult the site frequently.
I will post revised versions of the syllabus and copies of class handouts here.
The authors of your casebook have posted a website at http://www.coolcopyright.com/ with content keyed to the book. It includes links to the unedited version of each case, and useful resources and updates. Examination:
The exam in this course will be a 48-hour, take-home examination.
During the examination you may consult the casebook, the combined 2013-14 supplement, your copy of the copyright statute, a dictionary of the English language, and your own notes. You may not consult any other sources.
No laptops are allowed in class.
January 14, 15:
Casebook, pages 3-42 Supplement page 5-6
Spend a bunch of time exploring the links posted at http://www.umich.edu/~jdlitman/classes/copyright/copyref.html. Read an example of recently introduced legislation and try to figure out what it seeks to accomplish. Identify a congenial blog and plan to look in on it once or more each week. Optional:
Compare Spirit’s Taurus with Led Zepplin’s Stairway to Heaven
Compare Marvin Gaye’s Got To Give It Up with Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines
Listen to a mashup of six country songs that made it into the Top 40 in 2014
Listen to the songs I didn’t have time to play for you in class.
Casebook, pages 45-81
Supplement, pages 7-10
17 USC §§ 101, 102 Optional:
View Screenshots of Midway’s Defender and Artic’s Defense Command
View more images of the posters at issue in the Bleistein case here, here and here
View photographs of Chapman Kelley’s Wildflower Works
Purchase a signed, limited edition of Aram Saroyan’s poem from The Paris Review for $1000.00
January 26, 28, 29:
Guest Lecture: Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wednesday January 28
Casebook, pages 81-118
Supplement, Pages 10-11
17 USC §§ 101, 102, 103, 201, 202 Optional: Skim Chapter 3 and Chapter 5 of the COMPENDIUM OF COPYRIGHT OFFICE PRACTICES
Read Pamela Samuelson, The Story of Baker v. Selden: Sharpening the Distinction between Authorship and Invention, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STORIES (2006) (on course reserve), or online here or here. Read the Complaint in Rentmeester v. Nike.
If you are interested in learning more about the EFF’s copyright work, you can read about it here, here, here, here, here and here.
February 4, 5:
Snow Day February 2
Casebook, pages 118-53
Supplement, pages 11-13
17 USC §§ 101, 102, 104, 104A, 105, 201, 204, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408
1909 Act §§ 10, 12, 19, 20, 21, 24, & 26
February 9, 11, 12, 13:
Guest Lecture, Monday February 9: Sarang Damle, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office
Makeup class, Friday February 13, 2:45 - 4:00 pm, room 1020 SH
Problem Set (We will discuss the problems in class at the end of Chapter 3 of the Casebook)
Casebook, pages 153-56, 158-89
Supplement pages 13-22
17 USC §§ 101, 102, 203, 302, 303, 304, 305, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412
Optional: Register a copyright
Skim Chapter 6 of the COMPENDIUM OF COPYRIGHT OFFICE PRACTICES
Search for a book in Hathitrust
Lolly Gasaway’s chart: When Works Pass Into the Public Domain
Explore Creative Commons Labs’ CC Termination of Transfer Tool (Beta)
February 16, 18, 19:
Problem Set (continued; when we stopped on Friday we were in the middle of Problem # viii)
Casebook, pages 191-255
Supplement pages 23-25, 36-42
17 USC §§ 101, 102, 113, 117, 120 Optional: Look at some bicycle racks in downtown Ann Arbor:
This one and this one (at the Kerrytown famers' market)
See images of other bicycle rack designs on Pinterest
Is Mia Cinelli’s Loop a copyrightable sculpture? How about Cinelli’s other works? (The Weight? As it Was? Fayette? Bags to Riches? Infinitea?)
Skim Chapter 9 of the COMPENDIUM OF COPYRIGHT OFFICE PRACTICES
Spend some time exploring the architecture of South Hall at the Law School Building Project
page. Then, take fifteen minutes to look at the expression of that architecture in the actual building. What does the architects’ copyright protect?
Hartman-Cox also designed the bridge
that connects the 3d floor of Hutchins Hall with the 7th floor of the Cook Legal Research building. Find the bridge and check it out, both from the
outside and from the inside. Is the bridge an architectural work? Why or why not? If it is, what does Hartman-Cox’s copyright protect?
February 23, 25, 26:
Casebook, pages 255-58, 263-302
Supplement pages 25-43(including both Oracle v. Google at pp. 36-42 and Warner Bros. v. X One X at pp. 25-35)
17 USC §§ 106, 120, 501
Check out Brian Joseph Davis’s The Composites
Watch Kelly Wilson’s The Snowman
Watch the trailer for Disney’s Frozen
Read Wilson’s Complaint and Disney’s Answer
Compare the Chiffons’ recording of He’s So Fine by Ronald Mack with George Harrison singing My Sweet Lord
Compare the sheet music for Gordon Lightfoot’s If You Could Read My Mind with the sheet music for The Greatest Love of All by Michael Masser & Linda Creed
March 9, 11, 12:
Casebook, pages 302-58
Supplement pages 43-57, 61-63
17 USC §§ 106, 109, 602 Statutory Drafting Exercise (due March 13, bring to class Monday March 16)
Optional: Listen to the songs at issue in Arnstein v. Porter
See and listen to the files that Professor Jamie Lund used in her Empirical Examination of the Lay Listener Test In Music Composition Copyright Infringment. Watch some H.R. Pufnstuff here or here. Then watch McDonaldland commercials here, here, here, and here. Read Casey Rae’s discussion of the Thicke v. Gaye verdict for the Future of Music Coalition.
Read the jury instructions in the case
March 16, 18, 19:
Statutory Drafting Exercise (class discussion of the drafts that you turned in on March 13)
Casebook, pages 365-93, 398-416
Supplement pages 64-79, 57-59
17 USC §§ 106, 106A, 110, 111
Explore the Archive of Our Own. Search for and then read a story (you don't need an invitation to read, only to post works).
March 23, 25, 26:
Guest Lecture, Monday March 23: Jeff Cunard, Debevoise & Plimpton
Casebook, pages 421-51 Supplement pages 59-60, 70-81
17 USC §§ 110, 111, 114, 115 Optional:
Check out ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and SoundExchange. Visit the Harry Fox Agency.
Read YouTube’s Music Publisher Partner Guide
Even more optional: For a more detailed understanding of the complications of music copyright licensing, skim Judge Cote’s March 14, 2014 opinion in In re Petition of Pandora, Inc. March 30, April 1, 2:
Casebook, pages 451-505, 514-518, 525-28
Supplement pages 80-105
17 USC §§ 107, 114, 501, 506, 512, , 1001, 1002, 1003, 1008
Statutory Drafting Exercise due Monday March 30 at 5:30 pm
Visit chillingeffects.org. Look around.
Read about the copyright alert system April 6, 8, 9:
Guest Lecture, Wednesday April 8: Brian Willen, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Casebook, pages 529-556, 560-592
Supplement pages 106-115 17 USC § 107
Read the 1979 Nation article: The Ford Memoirs: Behind the Nixon Pardon
Watch Pogo’s Living Island
Take a trip in Joe Sabia’s The Office Time Machine
Visit the Copyright Clearance Center
Download the Clean Reader App
April 13, 15, 16:
Casebook, pages 592-32, 640-55
Supplement pages 116-41
17 USC §§ 107, 121, 201, 202, 204, 301
1909 Act §§ 27, 28
Statutory Drafting Exercise due Monday, April 13, at 5:30 pm
Search for a book on Google Books; then shop for a book on Google Play
Search for a book in Hathitrust. Read the Help page.
Visit Creative Commons. Choose a license
Read a term of the lease for Windermere Cay Apartments (near Orlando, Florida).
April 20, 22:
Bring your laptops to class on Monday, April 20, to complete teaching evaluations during the first 15 minutes of class
Casebook pages 657-93
Supplement pages 143-51 17 USC §§ 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 507, 1201, 1202
Read the U.S. Copyright Office F.A.Q.: Understanding the Section 1201 Anticircumvention Rulemaking Proceeding Explore some of the exemptions that individuals and organizations are seeking.