Learning outcomes of the curricular unit

Study of Copyright and Related Rights in national legislation, in the light of International Treaties and European Union Law. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, we will start by integrating copyright and related rights in the general framework of Intellectual Property. This will be followed by an analysis of the origin and the various systems of copyright and related rights. We will then refer to the main international treaties in this area and the role of the European Union in the progressive standardisation of national copyright and related rights. We propose a critical analysis of court rulings and formulating problem approach proposals. The method allows de develompent of analysis skills, refection, dialog and formulation of proposals. Along with the general concepts, this year we´ll focus on the relation between Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI).

Syllabus

1. General Notions about Intellectual Property 

2. Origin and evolution of copyright and related rights

3. Main systems in this area

4. International Treaties on Copyright and Related Rights

5. Growing harmonization by the European Union

6. Concept and requirements for the protection of the work
6.1.Copyright and GAI

7. Distinction between works and performances

8. Authorship and ownership of related rights
8.1. Authoship and GAI

9. Contents of copyright and contents of related rights
9.1 Moral rights
9.2 Economic rights

10. Term of protection of copyright and related rights

11. Exceptions and limitations 
11.1.Exceptions for text and data mining

12. Technological measures of protection and rights management and information systems

13. Collective management

14. Consequences of copyright infringement and of infringement of related rights

15. Cases of cumulation of protection via copyright, related rights and industrial property rights