LSTU E-130: Intellectual Property Law and the Internet

Harvard Extension School
Spring Semester 2004-2005

Mondays 7:35 PM to 9:35 PM
Sever Hall 214

Instructors:
Michael Albert, J.D. (malbert@wolfgreenfield.com)
David Albert, M.S. (albert@fas.harvard.edu)

Welcome to the LSTU E-130 web page. This course will cover legal principles and recent developments in intellectual property law, especially as they relate to Internet use. The course will focus on copyrights, trademarks, and patents. Other issues will include domain-name disputes, click-wrap licenses, free speech and parody online, and other Internet-related legal matters.

Prerequisites: at least one legal studies course or equivalent training, or permission of instructor.

About the Instructors:

Michael Albert is an attorney with the law firm of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks in Boston, Massachusetts, and is the chair of the firm's Internet Practice Group. He specializes in Intellectual Property Law. He has litigated cases involving various types of disputes arising on the Internet, and is a domain-name dispute arbitrator under the auspices of ICANN and the World Intellectual Property Organization. This is the fourth time that he is teaching a course on Internet Law at the Harvard Extension School.

David Albert has taught the Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Communities courses at the Harvard Extension School since 1992, and has co-taught this course since its inception five years ago. He will be providing technical expertise concerning the Internet this semester. He is an Instructional Technology Specialist in the Cambridge Public Schools, and consults independently on networking and database projects.

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