Intellectual Property Law

Read the following instructions and assignments. Answer the questions in red below, in
writing, in an email to me ([email protected]), due by noon on Monday, September 7.
Read UC – Intellectual Property Introduction and answer the following questions:
What is “intellectual property” and how is it different from tangible property?
What are the four forms of intellectual property?
What is the Constitutional authorization for the establishment of patent rights and
copyrights?
What is the Constitutional authorization for the establishment of trademark rights?
Why are intellectual property rights particularly important in the media business?
What is the difference between a property right and a personal right?
What happens to the copyrights in a musical work when the composer dies?
What happens to the privacy rights of an individual when that individual dies?
Read the IP Learning Objectives and the Approach to Analyzing IP Issues in anticipation of
material we will cover in weeks 3-5.
Reinforcement Questions (for material covered in prior weeks):
What is the key factor in the difference between law and ethics? Why is it so important?
List and explain the two types of jurisdiction that a court must have in order to have the
power to decide any given case.