Wednesday, September 18: Copyright, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain

Due Today:

• Watch the following video, Everything is a Remix, on the history of copyright and intellectual property law in popular culture.

• Also, read this piece by Ethan Hein about how copyright law connects Alan Lomax (who we learned about last week) to Jay-Z.
  
  
• Explore NYPL’s Public Domain collection, visualizations, and remixes.

Resources: 

• Mason's Copyright Basics
• Creative Commons 

Class Slides: 

• Copyright, IP, and Fair Use Slides