Learning about ... Copyright Law and Its Close Neighbors: Law 410
     led by Peter W. Martin

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• Course syllabus and schedule
  
• Course readings
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Topic 6 - Content of Entitlement - What activities by others are actionable infringement on the entitlement?

• Background:
  • Commentary and Act
  • Reading agenda and context
    
    
• Assigned readings:

  A- Reproduction right, distribution right and right of first sale, derivative works

  • MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511 (9th Cir. 1993)
• Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L’anza Research International, Inc., 523 U.S. 135 (1998)
• Lee v. A.R.T. Co.,  125 F.3d 580 (7th Cir. 1997)


B- Public performance or display right

• Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Redd Horne, Inc., 749 F.2d 154 (3d Cir. 1984)


C- Who is/are the infringer(s)? - Direct and vicarious infringement

• Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
• Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Communication Services, Inc., 907 F. Supp. 1361 (N.D. Cal. 1995)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 380 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. 2004)
• R.I.A.A. v. Diamond Multimedia, 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999)
  
  
• Probes, problems, and extensions:
  
  
  • A:
    • MAI Systems - Reproducing the work
    • Quality King Distributors - Distribution
    • Lee - Derivative works
  • B:
  • Columbia Pictures - Public (as in public performance or display)
  • Performance or display
  • C:
    • Secondary infringement (pre-digital)
    • Secondary infringement - Sony
    • Netcom, Grokster, and R.I.A.A. - Secondary infringement (digital media and the Net)
    • More on Digital Media - Take down, put back, copyright management information, and criminal penalties
      
      
• To discuss:
  • A. [submit by Wed., Oct. 13, at which point I'll begin the discussion]
  • B. [submit by Mon., Oct. 18, at which point I'll begin the discussion]
  • C. [submit by Mon., Oct. 25, at which point I'll begin the discussion]