Date

Topic/Event & Readings

W1

【CLASS INTRODUCTION】

Building Theories and Defining Concepts

* Searching for research resources from NCCU library's Database 

Required Reading:

• Frank Pasquale, Platform Neutrality: Enhancing Freedom of Expression in Spheres of Private Power, 17 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 487 (2016)

• Peter Menell, This American Copyright Life: Reflections on Re-equilibrating Copyright for the Internet Age, 61 Journal of The Copyright Society 235 (2014)

Recommended Reading:

• Danielle Citron and Quinta Jurecic, Platform Justice: Content Moderation at an Inflection Point, Hoover Institution Aegis Paper Series (2018)

W2

【Technological Revolution in Entertainment Industry】

An Overview and the Changing Scene 

Required Reading:

• Christopher J. Buccafusco and Christopher Jon Sprigman, The Creativity Effect, University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 78. (2011)


• Christopher Jon Sprigman, Copyright and Creative Incentives: What We Know (and Don't), Houston Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2018)

Recommended Reading:

• Justin Hughes and Robert Merges, Copyright and Distributive Justice, Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 92 (2016)

W3

【FREE CULTURE & CREATIVE FREEDOM SERIES】

 Free Culture & Sharing Economy 

Required Reading:

• Lawrence Lessig, The Vision for the Creative Commons: What are We and Where are We Headed? Free Culture, in Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, Brian Fitzgerald, Editor (Sydney University Press, 2007)


• Re-crafting a Public Domain, 18 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 56 (Special Issue 2006)

Recommended Reading:

• Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity, Penguin Books, p.116-207 (2005)


• Pam Samuelson, Possible Futures of Fair Use, 90 Wash. L. Rev. 815 (2015) 

W4

【REMIX & PUBLIC INTERESTS SERIES 】

Sharing Economy 

Required Reading:

• Peter Menell, Adapting Copyright for the Mashup Generation, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 164, Issue 2, (2016)

• Dina LaPolt, A Response to Professor Menell: A Remix Compulsory License Is Not Justified, 38 COLUM.J.L. & ARTS 365 (2015) 

Recommended Reading:

• Lawrence Lessig, Free(ing) Culture for Remix, 4 Utah Law Review 961 (2004)

• Lawrence Lessig, Remix- Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Penguin Books, p.253-298 (2008)

W5

【JAPNESE ENTERTAINMENT LAW SERIES 】

Music concerts, Animation and Film

Recommended Reading:

• Kazuhiro Ando, Contractual Relationships among Artists, Record Labels, and Artist Management Companies in Japan, Oxford Handbook of Music Law and Policy (2021)

W6

【FILM INDUSTRY SERIES 1】

Hollywood Deals and Market Power  

Required Reading:

• Alexandra Gil, Breaking The Studios: Antitrust and The Motion Picture Industry, NYU Journal Of Law And Liberty, Volume 83 Number 3 (2008)

Recommended Reading:

• Derek M. Diemer, Fighting Giants: Using Standard Form Contracts to Protect the Industry Outsider Information & Communications Technology Law, 2019


• Catherine Fisk, Hollywood Writers and the Gig Economy, UC Irvine Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2016-55

W7

【FILM INDUSTRY SERIES 2】

Streaming Media and Money Ball Push Us to Reconsider New Policy

Required Reading:

• Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, The Second Digital Disruption: Streaming & the Dawn of Data-Driven Creativity, N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2019)

Recommended Reading:

• Michael Smith , Rahul Telang, Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment, The MIT Press, p.63-186 (2016)

W8

【MUSIC LAW SERIES 1】

The Distribution Right, First-Sale, and Import-Export 

Required Reading:

• Peter DiCola, Money from Music: Survey Evidence on Musicians’ Revenue and Lessons About Copyright Incentives, 2013.


• Robert Suggs, A Functional Approach to Copyright Policy, 83 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1293 (2015)

Recommended Reading:

• James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, Theft: A History of Music Paperback,  Create Space Independent Publishing Platform (2017)


• Michael Carrier, Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story, Wisconsin Law Review 891 (2012)

W9

【 FASHION DESIGN LAW SERIES 】

Brands and Advertisements

Required Reading:

• Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman, The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design. Virginia Law Review, Vol. 92 (2006)


• Sonia Katyal and Leah Chan Grinvald, Platform Law and the Brand Enterprise, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 32 (2018)

Recommended Reading:

• Xiyin Tang, The Artist as Brand: Toward a Trademark Conception of Moral Rights, 122 Yale Law Journal 218 (2012)


• Sonia Katyal, Brands Behaving Badly, Trademark Reporter (2019)

W10

【INFORMATION LAW SERIES 1】

* An  one-page abstract / 2-minutes Introduction in the Class 

Media Regulation and Innovative Technology 

Required Reading:

• Francis Fukuyama, Andrew Grotto, Comparative Media Regulation in the United States and Europe, Social Media and Democracy, Cambridge University Press (2020)

• Danielle Citron and Helen Norton, Intermediaries and Hate Speech: Fostering Digital Citizenship for the Information Age, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 1435 (2011)

Recommended Reading:

• ??Tim Hwang, Dealing with Disinformation: Evaluating the Case for CDA 230 Amendment, Cambridge University Press (2020)


• Eric Goldman, Five Things to Know About Section 230, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper (2021)

W11

【INFORMATION LAW SERIES 2】

Fake News/Disinformation and Governmental Regulation

Required Reading:

• ??Tim Hwang, Dealing with Disinformation: Evaluating the Case for CDA 230 Amendment, Cambridge University Press (2020)


• Danielle Citron and Mary Anne Franks, The Internet As a Speech Conversion Machine and Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform Efforts, U. Chi. Legal Forum 45 (2020)

Recommended Reading:

• Eric Goldman, Why Section 230 Is Better Than the First Amendment, Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 33 (2019)


• Jeff Kosseff, A User's Guide to Section 230, and a Legislator's Guide to Amending It (or Not), Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2022)

W12

【 ART LAW SERIES 】

Museums & Art Exhibitions

Required Reading:

• Xiyin Tang, Copyright and Cultural Capital, 66 Rutgers Law Review 425 (2014)


• Amy Adler, Fair Use and the Future of Art, 91 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 559 (2016)

Recommended Reading:

• Brain Frye, New Art for the People: Art Funds & Financial Technology, 93 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 113 (2018)


• Amy Adler, Why Art Does Not Need Copyright, 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 313 (2018)

【 NFT & BLOCKCHAIN SERIES 】

Deregulation and Open Licensing

Required Reading:

• Brain Frye, Pwnership in the NFT Art Market (2022)


• Edward Lee , NFTs as Decentralized Intellectual Property, University of Illinois Law Review (2023)

Recommended Reading:

• Robert P Merges, Compulsory Licensing vs. the Three "Golden Oldies" Property Rights, Contracts, and Markets, Cato Policy Analysis, No.508 (2004)

W13

【MUSIC LAW SERIES 2】

Asian Perspective and International Regime

Required Reading:

• David Herlihy, Yu Zhang, Music Industry and Copyright Protection in the United States and China, Global Media and China, Vol 1, Issue 4 (2016)


• Jiarui Liu, The Tough Reality of Copyright Piracy: A Case Study of the Music Industry in China, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 27 (2010)

Recommended Reading:

• John Fang-jun Li, The development of the digital music industry in China during the first decade of the 21st century with particular regard to industrial convergence, International Journal of Music Business Research, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2013)

【ASIAN PESPECTIVES】

Cultural Impacts and Legal Reforms 

Required Reading:

• Eric Priest, Copyright Extremophiles: Do Creative Industries Thrive or Just Survive in China's High Piracy Environment? Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2014)


• Eric Priest, Copyright and Free Expression in China's Film Industry, Forham IP, Media & Entertainment Law Journal Volume 26 (2015)

Recommended Reading:

• Jiarui Liu, Copyright Reform and Copyright Market, 31 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1461 (2017)


• William P. Alford, To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization, Stanford Univ. Press (1995)


• Steve Tsang, Taiwan's Impact on China: Why Soft Power Matters More Than Economic or Political Inputs, Palgrave Macmillan (2017)

W14

【 Science Technology and Entertainment Industry】

Technology Transformation in the Digital Age

Required Reading:

• Sean O'Connor, Patented Electric Guitar Pickups and the Creation of Modern Music Genres, George Mason Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2016)

Recommended Reading:

• Thierry Rayna, École Polytechnique, Engineering vs. Craftsmanship: Innovation in the Electric Guitar Industry (1945-1984), DIME Working Paper on Intellectual Property Rights No. 68 (2009)


• Robert Brauneis, Musical Work Copyright for the Era of Digital Sound Technology: Looking Beyond Composition and Performance, Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2014)

W15

【AI & AUTHOSHIP SERIES】

Guest Speaker

Recommended Reading:

• Sean O’Connor, The Intersection of IP and Artificial Intelligence (AI) les Nouvelles, Journal of the Licensing Executives Society, Volume LVI No. 3 (2021)


• Sean O’Connor, AI Replication of Musical Styles Points the Way to An Exclusive Rights Regime, Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence, Ryan Abbott ed., Edward Elgar (2022)

W 16

【INTERNET SECURITY & PRIVACY PROTECTION SERIES】

Guest Speaker

Recommended Reading:

• Tim Wu, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 2 (2003)


• Tim Wu, Is the First Amendment Obsolete? , Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14 (2017)

【Off-Campus Learning & Field Trip】

• Songshan Cultural and Creative Park & Taipei Pop Music Center (TBD)

W 17

【Term Paper Presentation】

W 18

【Term Paper Presentation】