COPYRIGHT, CREATIVITY, and NEW MEDIA

SPRING 2012

CINE500/ENGL492/COML506, Tue 5:30-8:10pm, FBH 132

University of Pennsylvania

Prof. Peter Decherney

decherney@sas.upenn.edu, 215-746-3156

211 Fisher-Bennett Hall, office hours Tue 3:30-4:30pm and by appointment

    Assignments (detailed assignment here)

    (1) class participation (10 points)

    (2) a 1500-word paper paper on fair use (20 points)

    (3) an oral presentation of your research project (20 points)

    (4) an annotated bibliography (20)

    (5) a 3500-word research paper on a topic of your choice or the creative option (30 points)

    Texts: William Patry, How to Fix Copyright. All other course texts are available through the course website.