Faculty of Law, The University of West Indies at Mona

LA37D Intellectual Property: Copyright
	1. General This course will be taught in the first and/or second semester of the third year of the LL.B. degree programme. This course is an optional course. 2. Course Objective The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the general principles of copyright law and to specialized areas of the law relating to the protection of indigenous artistic expressions, namely, folklore, and to issues concerning the music industry. 3. Course Content The areas to be covered are as follows: i. Introduction to Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Property Law ii. History of Copyright Law and Sources of Copyright Law iii. Nature of Copyright iv. Authorship and Ownership of Copyright v. Rights of Users of Copyright - Fair Dealing in Copyright vi. Moral Rights vii. Specialized areas (a) Copyright Protection of Folklore; (b) Copyright and the Music Industry viii. Copyright Treaties ix. Copyright Infringement x. Remedies 4. Method of Teaching The course will be taught by way of two lectures and one tutorial per week, each lecture and tutorial being one hour duration. 5. Method of Assessment This course will be assessed by means of a two hour final examination at the end of the Semester. Students will be required to answer three questions out of a total of six questions. The examination question paper may be divided into two parts with students being required to answer one question from each part of the paper.