Intellectual Property and Media Ethics

Course Restriction: Graduate standing.

Students will be exposed to a survey of major areas of media law: governmental regulation of political speech; defamation; privacy torts; news gathering rights, and intellectual property issues such as trademark, patent, copyright, and fair use. This course concentrates on the interplay between new media, cutting-edge technologies, privacy, and other civil liberties. Students can expect to engage in a conversation about the ethical, cultural and political issues facing media.

Credit: 3