| Topic | Author |
| Assignment: Questions/Thoughts? | Ashish Gupta (13) |
| Assignment: Questions/Thoughts? | Ashish Gupta (13) |
| Introduction; Basics of Legal Research; Legal Citations: Questions/Thoughts? | Ashish Gupta (13) |
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; software licensing; the GNU® General Public License and free software.
Instructor: Keith Winstein
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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