Publishing rights and law (PUBC08)
In this course, you will learn about Intellectual Property law, copyright, contracts and clauses, and core areas of law in publishing including defamation, piracy, plagiarism and GDPR.
🎯 Learning objectives
📍 Introduction
📄 Core laws and their impact on publishing
✍️ Over to you 8.1
📄 The different areas of Intellectual Property (IP) law
💡 Chapter summary
📄 The publisher relationship to copyright
📄 A world without copyright law
✍️ Over to you 8.2
💡 Chapter summary
📄 The history of copyright
📄 The basic rules of copyright
📄 Copyright infringement
📄 Moral rights
✍️ Over to you 8.3
📄 Copyright expiry, the public domain and permissions
📄 Who owns the copyright?
✍️ Over to you 8.4
💡 Chapter summary
📄 What contracts are and why they matter
📄 The primary contract
📄 How publishers acquire rights to publish
📄 Copyright contracts, key legal terms and clauses
📄 Journals contracts and Creative Commons licences
📄 How publishers pay for content: fees, royalties and advances
💡 Chapter summary
📄 Defamation, the importance of accuracy and rectifying errors
✍️ Over to you 8.5
📄 Plagiarism and piracy
📄 What can publishers do to protect their content?
✍️ Over to you 8.6
💡 Chapter summary