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Harvard Law School offers Free Online Course on Copyright Law After a successful first experience in 2013, Professor William Fisher will offer the networked course, CopyrightX, again this spring, under the auspices of Harvard Law School, the HarvardX distance-learning initiative, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The course explores the current law of copyright and the ongoing debates concerning how that law should be reformed. For more information, please see http://copyx.org/. Like the inaugural offering, in 2014 CopyrightX will offer an online course to approximately 500 participants, divided into 20 “sections,” each taught by a Harvard Teaching Fellow. This group will constitute one of three layers within CopyrightX: the other two are the Harvard Law School course on copyright and “satellite” sections taught in countries other than the United States. Participants in each layer will have the opportunity to engage with and learn from the participants in the other layers. The 500 students in the online component of CopyrightX will be selected through an open application process that opens on December 13 and closes on December 23. We welcome diverse and international participation; please read about admissions process here: http://copyx.org/logistics/admission/. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/CopyrightX_Homepage.htm CopyrightX 2013 Prof. William Fisher Harvard Law School CopyrightX is a twelve-week networked distance-learning course, offered under the auspices of HarvardX and the EdX initiative. The course explores the current law of copyright and the ongoing debates concerning how that law should be reformed. Through a combination of pre-recorded lectures (by Prof. Fisher), live webcasts, and weekly online seminars (led by Harvard Law School teaching fellows), participants in the course examine and assess the ways in which law seeks to stimulate and regulate creative expression. Admission to the course is free and is open to anyone over the age of 13, but enrollment is limited. The 2013 version of the course is now complete. The next version of the course will start in January of 2014. The homepage for the 2014 version is copyx.org. Some press coverage of the 2013 version is available here. A document summarizing our own assessment of the 2013 version -- and our tentative plans for modifying and expanding the course in 2014 -- is available here. The materials used in the 2013 version of the course can be obtained by following these links: * Lectures * Reading Materials * Special Events * Maps of Copyright Law and Theory All of these materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5 License, the terms of which are available here. The materials are modular; feel free to watch or use them in any combination and in any order. However, you might find it useful to peruse the materials in the sequence in which they were presented in the 2013 CopyrightX course itself. Half of the course participants pursued a "Case-law Curriculum"; the other half pursued a "Global Curriculum." As their names suggest, the former emphasized judicial opinions, primarily from the United States, while the latter emphasized copyright law in jurisdictions other than the United States. These materials could be used to construct a self-study distance-learning course. Alternatively, they could be used by a group of people interested in studying copyright together. If you organize such a group, we ask that you contact us, both at the start and at the conclusion of your venture, to let us know how it worked. Such information would help us in designing future online courses. --The CopyrightX Team STEPHEN B. ALAYON Data Bank Senior Information Assistant Library and Data Banking Services Section Training and Information Division Aquaculture Department (AQD) Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Tigbauan, Iloilo 5021 Philippines URL: http://www.seafdec.org.ph Telephone No.: 63 33 5119170 to 71 local 409 Fax No.: 63 33 5119174 Mobile Phone No.: 63 919 4506688 Email Add: [email protected], [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
