Updated Syllabus 4/3/09

Digital Media Law Seminar Syllabus

UC Hastings College of the Law
Spring Semester, 2009

Class Time: Wednesdays 4:40 – 6:50pm (unless otherwise noted)
Class Location: 198 McAllister Room 219


1/14/09 Cecily Mak: Introduction; Digital Music Law: Licensing and Distribution Models
Reading assignment: Landy, pp. 517-541; 1/14/09; Dean’s List (day of)

1/21/09 No Class; students are encouraged to attend the UC Hastings Intellectual Property Career Fair

1/28/09 Sarah Solomon: IP Licensing Basics
Reading assignment: Landy, Chapter 8; Dean’s List (day-of)

2/4/09 Whitney Broussard: Music Publishing on the Internet
Reading assignment: Listed in post above & Dean’s List (day-of)

2/11/09 NO CLASS; this class is treated as a Monday

2/18/09 Bill Growney & Chris Castle: Content License Agreements; Digital Media Considerations for Artists and Distributors
NOTE: this class will be three hours long and will conclude at 7:50pm.
Reading assignment: Distributed in 2/4/09 class (one deck, 3 articles & one agreement) & Dean’s List (day-of).

2/25/09 Movie Day: Rip; A Remix Manifesto
Reading assignment: view this 19 minute video and article posted (related written assignment to be announced on the blog before 3/4/09):



3/4/09 Jon Blaufarb (& Associate Dave Kostiner): Music Rights and Artist Management in the Digital Age: A Music Artist’s Guide to Distribution and Marketing Music over the Internet; Long Tail; 360 Deals, etc.
Reading assignment: TBD and distributed during 2/25/09 class & Dean’s List (day-of). Writing Assignment shall be posted on Class Blog before this class; due in class 3/18/09

3/11/09 NO CLASS; Spring Break

3/18/09 Zahavah Levine: User Generated Content & Intermediary Liability: DMCA & CDA 230
Reading assignment (in addition to Dean's List, day of): (1) IO Group v. Veoh Networks, US District Court, Northern District of California (August 28, 2008) found at http://www.eff.org/files/Io%20v.%20Veoh%20(d%20ct).pdf, (2) a to-be-provided outline from Fred Von Lohmann of the EFF, and (3) Mark Lemley, Rationalizing Internet Safe Harbors (2007) (wherein he argues that all intermediary liability should look more like 512, but which includes a nice overview of the entire landscape) found at <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=979836>

4/1/09 James Martin: Case Study: CastTV
Reading assignment posted as a new post above on 3/24/09 + Dean’s List (day-of)

4/8/09 David Marglin: Database Law and Licensing: Sui Generis, Self-Help, and the Grey Areas of IP Protection
Reading assignment: Agreement emailed by Korey + Landy, pp. 27-28; 191-200; 517-522; 536 (starting with “The Hot News Doctrine”)-543; 570-572
NOTE: this class will be extended to 7:30pm.

4/13/09 Jeremy Korer: Deal Making in the International Sports and Entertainment Industry [NOTE: CLASS in Room 640 of the 200 McAllister Building]
Reading assignment: None, though please read the Dean's List (day-of)

4/15/09 John Jeffrey: ICANN and Beyond
Reading assignment: Landy, pages 92-94; additional assignment to be distributed; Dean’s List (day-of)

4/21/09 This Tuesday will be treated as a Wednesday; Review

5/5/09 Final Exam