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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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Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | Semester 1 |
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Fees | Look up fees |
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 law, policy and practice of the copyright regime, of the design registration system, and of the relationship between the two. 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 infringement, and the defences to infringement, of copyright;
- The subject matter of, and requirements for, design registration;
- The scope of protection provided by design registration; and
- The 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: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the MC-JURISD Juris Doctor
AND
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS50023 | Legal Method and Reasoning | Summer Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50024 | Principles of Public Law | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50025 | Torts | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50026 | Obligations | 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 |
AND
One of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS50030 | Property | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Note: these can be taken concurrently (at the same time)
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS50057 | Copyright and Patents | Not available in 2024 |
12.5 |
LAWS70207 | Copyright Law | October (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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Participation | Throughout the teaching period | 15% |
Online take-home examination, completed in groups
| Week 12 | 85% |
Additional details
The due date of the above assessment(s) will be available to students via the Assessment Schedule on the LMS Community.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Andrew F. Christie Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Students are expected to attend all sessions whether participating on-campus or remotely. Total time commitment 144 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Additional delivery details
This subject has an enrolment quota of 60 students.
All timely JD elective enrolments are subject to a selection process, which the Academic Support Office will perform after the timely re-enrolment period ends. Late self-enrolment is on a first-in basis up to quota.
Please refer to the Melbourne Law School website for further information about the management of subject quotas.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Specialist materials will be made available via the LMS.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Juris Doctor - Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024