Course curriculum

    1. 🎯 Learning objectives

    2. 📍 Introduction

    1. 📄 Core laws and their impact on publishing

    2. ✍️ Over to you 8.1

    3. 📄 The different areas of Intellectual Property (IP) law

    4. 💡 Chapter summary

    1. 📄 The publisher relationship to copyright

    2. 📄 A world without copyright law

    3. ✍️ Over to you 8.2

    4. 💡 Chapter summary

    1. 📄 The history of copyright

    2. 📄 The basic rules of copyright

    3. 📄 Copyright infringement

    4. 📄 Moral rights

    5. ✍️ Over to you 8.3

    6. 📄 Copyright expiry, the public domain and permissions

    7. 📄 Who owns the copyright?

    8. ✍️ Over to you 8.4

    9. 💡 Chapter summary

    1. 📄 What contracts are and why they matter

    2. 📄 The primary contract

    3. 📄 How publishers acquire rights to publish

    4. 📄 Copyright contracts, key legal terms and clauses

    5. 📄 Journals contracts and Creative Commons licences

    6. 📄 How publishers pay for content: fees, royalties and advances

    7. 💡 Chapter summary

    1. 📄 Defamation, the importance of accuracy and rectifying errors

    2. ✍️ Over to you 8.5

    3. 📄 Plagiarism and piracy

    4. 📄 What can publishers do to protect their content?

    5. ✍️ Over to you 8.6

    6. 💡 Chapter summary

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