Date

Topic/Event & Readings

W1

【CLASS INTRODUCTION】

Building Theories and Defining Concepts

* Searching for research resources from NCCU library's Database 

Required Reading:

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


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

Recommended Reading:

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


• 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:

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


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


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

Recommended 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)


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

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

W5

【 BRAND &  TRADEMARK SERIES 】

Required 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)

Recommended Reading:

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


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

W6

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

【 FASHION DESIGN INDUSTRY SERIES 】

Required Reading:

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


• Uma Suthersanen & Maria Mercedes Frabboni, Design and Fashion: Procrustean Metaphors in Intellectual Property Law, Chapter in: E. Rosati and I. Calboli (eds), Routledge Handbook of Fashion Law, Routledge (2024)

Recommended Reading:

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

W7

【DIGITAL STREAMING & FILM PRODUCTION SERIES】

Streaming Media and Data-Driven Production

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,  (2016)

W8

【MEDIA REGULATION SERIES:  FAKE NEWS】

 Free Speech: Disinformation/ Dafamation Regulation

Required Reading:

• Danielle Citron & Mary Anne Franks, The Internet As a Speech Conversion Machine and Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform Efforts, U. Chi. Legal Forum 45 (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 Wu, Is the First Amendment Obsolete? , Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14 (2017)


• ​​Tim Hwang, Dealing with Disinformation: Evaluating the Case for CDA 230 Amendment,《Social Media and Democracy, Cambridge University Press (2020)

W9

【MEDIA REGULATION SERIES :  PLATFORM LIABILITY】

Media Regulation and Innovative Content Moderation 

Required Reading:

• Chien-Chih Lu, From safe harbours to over-enforcement: the rise of AI and copyright monitoring, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2025,

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

Recommended Reading:

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


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


• 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)

W10

【MUSIC INDUSTRY SERIES 】

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

Required Reading:

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


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

Recommended Reading:

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


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

W11

☆ Final Paper Outline Submission：

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

【ASIAN PERSPECTIVES SERIES 】

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)


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

Recommended Reading:

• 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)

* 【LITERATURE AND CULTURAL CREATIVITY】

Required Reading:

• Carroll, Michael W., Copyright in Characters: A Proposal for Reform (March 22, 2025). 58 Akron Law Review (forthcoming 2025).


•  Eleonora Rosati, Branderella: Trade Marks and Fictional Characters. Yann Basire (ed), Propriété Intellectuelle et Pop Culture (LexisNexis, coll. IRPI, 2020)

*【ASIAN PESPECTIVES】(Extra Option)

Cultural Impacts and Legal Reforms 

Recommended 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)


• 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)


• 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)

W12

【 TRANSPARENCY & PPRODUCT PLACEMENT SERIES】

Required Reading:

• Daphne Keller & Max Levy, Getting Transparency Right, The Lawfare Institute (2022)


• Chinmayi Arun, Facebook's Faces, Harvard Law Review Forum Volume 135 (2021)

Recommended Reading:

• Jack Balkin, The Fiduciary Model of Privacy, Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 134, No. 1 (2020)


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  Jack Balkin, Moody v. NetChoice, The Supreme Court Meets the Free Speech Triangle, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper (2025)

  
  


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  Kate Klonick, Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court , The New Yorker  (2021)

  
  

W13

【GENERATIVE AI & HUMAN AUTHOSHIP SERIES】

Required Reading:

• Robert Brauneis,  Copyright and the Training of Human Authors and Generative Machines, 47 Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts ( 2025 Forthcoming)


• Mathrew Sag, Copyright Safety for Generative AI, Houston Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (2023)

Recommended Reading:

• 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)


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

W14

【 MACHINE LEARNING, AI & ARTS SERIES】 

Required Reading:

• Jane C. Ginsburg & Luke A. Budiardjo, Authors and Machines, 34 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 343 (2019).

Recommended Reading:

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


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


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

W15

【Innovative Technology & Future 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)


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

W 16

【Off-Campus Learning & Field Trip】

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