Objective: 
An Intellectual Property Law course is intended for students interested in copyright as well as industrial property right law. It looks into the system of international protection of intellectual proerty, notbly essential international and regional legal instruments in this matter. It covers the basics of copyright law, patents and trademarks in Europe and refers to International WIPO Conventions Transnational cases and problems of protecting copyrights in Internet.

The aim:
A student has knowledge of an authorship right protection system.
A student has basic knowledge of protection concerning other IP laws.
A student has basic knowledge of fundamental international legal acts on IP law.

Acquired knowledge:
A student gets acquainted with major rules of an autorship right system of protection.
A student knows principal rules connected with other IP rights.
A student recognizes basic international and European sources of an IP law.

Acquired skills:
A student can define principal institutions and rules of IP law in English language.
A student can indentify international and European sources of IP rights protection and is aware of relations between these acts.
A student can draft simple agreements regarding copyright.

Developed reflection:
A student can discuss major concerns of copyright and other intellectual property rights protection.
A student identifies problems that may arise from IP law in his/her day-to-day activities.
A student is aware of complexity and importance of IP in a legal environment.

Assessment: 
The final grade consists of: exam ( 75% ), term papers ( 10% ), class activity ( 15% ).

Contents: 
Fundamental notions of IP law. Rudimentary sources and principals as regards IP. The subject of protection under the IP law (works, related rights, designs, patents, trade marks, trade secrets, data bases).
Autorship right system: a comparison of droit d’autor (author’s right) and copyright conception of protection. A work, a derivative work and fixation.
An author and other persons entitled to copyright protection, basic copyright and moral rights. Duration of the copyright.
Territorial scope of copyright protection. Agreements on copyright.
An infringement of copyright and remedies for it. The conception of fair use.
IP rights on the Internet.
Neighbouring rights (related rights) – basic information.
Patents, designs, trade secrets and data bases – basic information.
Trademarks – basic information.
Evaluation classes – an open book exam.

Recommended reading: 
International Copyright Law and Policy, S.v. Levinsky, Oxford University, Oxford , 2008
Intellectual property : patents, copyright, trade marks and allied rights, Willam Cornish, David LLewelyn, Tanya Aplin, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2013