Intellectual Property Law

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Intellectual Property Law is the method by which law seeks to regulate the commercial use of ideas, innovation and culture. Because law can regulate only the exterior of things, it does this by creating a fictional property in the tangible artifacts produced as the by-product of ideas. This is an inexact form of regulation and many of the controversies in IP law have emerged from the differences between the conceptual model of property and the reality. This unit of study uses problem based learning to explore the practical application of intellectual property law and the social and ethical issues which arise out of this. These problems are simulations of five real world applications of IP law that are relevant to lawyers and to interdisciplinary teams.

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