MUSI 3450 Intellectual Property Rights

This course will introduce the student to the concepts, definitions, theories and practices of intellectual property (IP) along with the main subdivisions of IP- copyright, trademark, patent, unfair competition, trade secrets and right of publicity. The course will primarily cover copyright and copyright infringement, their history, development and present status, as well as the related concepts, definitions, and practices of ideas, expressions of ideas, originality, creativity, borrowing, paraphrasing, interpolation, sampling and similariity especially with respect to music.
Credits: 3.0