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Registration is required for this offering (below).
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Description:
Ever
wanted to know more about how to copyright or trademark your own
material? Ever wondered how to acquire rights in someone else’s
property for your own project – and worried you might not know how to
get ALL the rights necessary? This class is for you. Learn how to
acquire rights in your own property, and how to decide whether it’s
worth spending the money for formal registration vs. informal
protection. Learn just what the legal parameters of the Work for Hire
doctrine are, and how to avoid legal trouble by acquiring all the
rights necessary to use someone else’s property. We’ll go over how to
take advantage of the legal concepts of Fair Use and Public Domain to
save time and money, and about the relative benefits of licensing stock
vs. commercial material. We’ll cover specific examples of what material
is ok – and not ok – to use in video/film-making, music, web design,
photography and software in general.
Then
we’ll take a look at where intellectual property (and the creative
professionals that drive it) is headed. Is the Copyright concept
obsolete, or are there ways to tweak it to make it support rather than
hinder the work of creative professionals? Come to class and find out!
Presented as a Lecture-Style Workshop:
Affordable workshops designed to introduce a subject quickly and efficiently. Students can take notes from the instructor's projected computer screen, and/or bring their own computer to follow along.
Who Should Take This:
This workshop will be geared primarily toward those working in video/film, web design, music and photography.
Instructor:
Patricia Murphy is an attorney practicing intellectual property and author of a soon-to-published book on the cultural backlash against the creative class and the unique physiology of creative people. A graduate of the University of Southern California Law School – where she was selected for the Hale Moot Court honors program – she is licensed in both Colorado and California, where she practiced real estate and business litigation with an emphasis in software copyright issues before moving to the Boulder area in 1997.
She has spoken extensively on the topic of creative physiology to groups of parents and practitioners, and particularly enjoys working with the creative professionals in her practice.
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