The aim:
1. Student has knowledge of an authorship right protection system.
2. Student has knowledge of types of copyrights.
3. Student has basic knowledge of fundamental international legal acts on IP law.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Student knows general rules of scope of protected copyrights in Great Britain legal system.
2. Student knows the types of protected copyrights in Polish lega act.
3. Student recognizes basic international and European sources of an IP law.

Acquired skills:
1. Student can define principal institutions and rules of IP law in English language.
2. Student can indentify international and European sources of IP rights protection and is aware of relations between these acts.
3. Student can asses the scope of free use of copyrighted materials.
4. Students should know basic institutions of law on intangible property and be able to identify legal problems occurring in this branch of civil law.
5. Students will be familiar with the role played by the EU legislation and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the field of intellectual property law.
6. Students will gain the ability to critically analyse the norms of intellectual property law and to make practical use of doctrinal and case law acquis.

Acquired social skills:
1. Student can discuss major concerns of copyright protection and infringements
2. Student identifies problems that may arise from IP law in his/her day-to-day activities.
3. Student is able to formulate problems of copyright protection in legal language.

Course contents: 
1. Fundamental notions of IP law. Sources and principals of copyright law. The subject of protection under the IP law (works, related rights, designs, patents, trade marks, trade secrets, data bases).
2. Autorship right system: a comparison of droit d’autor (author’s right) and copyright conception of protection. Definitions of: copyrighted work, a derivative work and fixation.
3. An author and other persons entitled to copyrights – derivative works, inspirations and copies.
4. Types of economical copyrights in Great Britain and Polish legal acts.
5. Types of moral copyright. Waiver of moral copyrights in Great Britain legal act.
6. Agreements on copyright (types of licence agreement, transfer of copyrights via assignment contract).
7. An infringement of copyright and remedies for it.
8. Fair use defence (fair dealing) regulations in Polish Copyright Act.
9. Neighbouring rights (related rights) and their protection – list of claims.
10. Evaluation classes – exam in the form of test.

Recommended reading: 
1. International Copyright Law and Policy, S.v. Levinsky, Oxford University. Oxford 2008
2. Intellectual Property Law in Poland, P. Machnikowski, J. Balcarczyk, A. Górnicz-Mulcahy, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. Alphen aan den Rijn 2017
3. European Intellectual Property Law, Justine Pila, Paul Torremans,, Cambridge University. Cambridge 2019

Additional reading: 
1. European Copyright Law: A Commentary, M. Walter, S. v. Lewinsky, Oxford University. Oxford 2010
2. EU Intellectual Property Law, Trevor Cook, Oxford University. Oxford 2009
3. International Copyright. Principles, Law, and Practice, Paul Goldstein, P.Bernt Hugenholtz, Oxford University. Oxford 2010
4. The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law, Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, Justine Pila, Oxford University. Oxford 2018