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Copyright and Designs (LAWS90074)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Email: law-aso@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 4475
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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Copyright protection is the law’s primary mechanism for providing incentive for the generation of creative subject matters (such as works of literature, art, music and film), and for regulating the use of such subject matters by others. Design registration is the law’s primary mechanism for providing proprietary rights over the appearance of a mass-produced object. This subject explores in detail the operation of the copyright regime as it applies to creative subject matters, and the relationship between copyright protection and design registration. The principal topics considered include:
- The international framework for protection of creative subject matters and designs;
- The subject matters capable of protection by copyright;
- The requirements for copyright protection to arise;
- The exclusive rights granted by copyright;
- The exceptions and limitations to the exclusive rights of copyright;
- The subject matter of, and requirements for, design registration;
- The scope of protection provided by design registration; and
- Tte regulation of dual protection under copyright and design registration.
Intended learning outcomes
A student who successfully completes this subject will be able to:
- Demonstrate an advanced and integrated understanding of the nature and policy roles within private law of the legal regimes providing for copyright protection and design registration;
- Manifest detailed and advanced knowledge of the principles that inform categorization of subject matters within those legal regimes;
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the legal principles that determine the scope of rights in those subject matters;
- Apply that understanding to complex problems that require resolution of legal and policy ambiguities and critical analysis and synthesis of information, so as to develop reasoned conclusions as to likely outcomes in judicial proceedings informed by a sophisticated and detailed understanding of the public policy issues that are implicated by the legal regimes; and
- Interpret and transmit that analysis to others.
Generic skills
A student who successfully completes Copyright and Designs will have developed a capacity to:
- Assess the nature and role of the legal regimes providing for copyright protection and design registration within broader economic and moral context;
- Evaluate those regimes against defined policy objectives;
- Analyse judgments, statutes and secondary materials which relate to those regimes; and
- Write legal assessments of particular scenarios in which copyright law and design law issues are implicated, including being able to comment on the desirability of the application of the law.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Successful completion of all the below subjects:
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS50023 | Legal Method and Reasoning | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50024 | Principles of Public Law | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50025 | Torts |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS50026 | Obligations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50027 | Dispute Resolution | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50028 | Constitutional Law | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50029 | Contracts | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50030 | Property | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50031 | Legal Theory |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Students who have completed any of the below subjects are not permitted to this subject:
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS50057 | Copyright and Patents | Not available in 2024 |
12.5 |
LAWS70207 | Copyright Law | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- 6,000 words take-home exam, during the examination period (85%);
- 30 minute multiple choice test, Week 4 (15%).
The due date of the above assessment will be available to students via the Assessment Schedule on the LMS Community.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Andrew F. Christie Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 144 hours Teaching period 26 February 2018 to 27 May 2018 Last self-enrol date 4 December 2017 Census date 31 March 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 May 2018 Assessment period ends 22 June 2018 Semester 1 contact information
Email: law-aso@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 4475
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au
Additional delivery details
This subject has an enrolment quota of 60 students. Your subject enrolment will not be confirmed until the selection process has been run. Selection is conducted on a random basis with outcomes communicated to students shortly after re-enrolment closes. Please refer to the Melbourne Law School website for more information on the JD Quota Elective selection process.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
- Specialist printed materials will be made available from the Melbourne Law School.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Juris Doctor
Last updated: 3 November 2022