Name: Crash Course: Intellectual Property
Uploaded: 2015
Description: In this course, you'll learn about Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, and how they impact your life and shape the things you see, read and hear

In this course, you'll learn about Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, and how they impact your life and shape the things you see, read and hear

This week, Stan Muller launches the Crash Course Intellectual Property mini-series. So, what is intellectual property, and why are we teaching it? Well, intellectual property is about ideas and their ownership, and it's basically about the rights of creators to make money from their work.

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Introduction to Intellectual Property: Crash Course IP 1

This week, Stan Muller teaches you the basics of copyright in the United States. Copyright law is territorial, so we're going to cover the system we know the most about, and that's the US. Stan will talk about what kind of ideas can be copyrighted and who can get a copyright.

Copyright Basics: Crash Course Intellectual Property 2

Stan Muller teaches you a few things about copyright enforcement and talks about the exceptions to copyright enforcement. While there are several, the one you've probably heard of is Fair Use, and it's a pretty tricky one. We'll try to explain it, and teach you just why fair use is so loosey-goosey.

Copyright, Exceptions, and Fair Use: Crash Course Intellectual Property #3

This week, Stan teaches you about patents. It turns out, they're patently complicated! So, patents have some similarities to copyright, in that they grant a limited monopoly to people who invent things. The key difference between patents and copyright is that patents are for THINGS.

Patents, Novelty, and Trolls: Crash Course Intellectual Property #4

A lot of people confuse trademark and copyright. Trademarks apply to things like company and product names and logos, packaging designs, and commercial designs. Basically, copyright protects ideas, but trademarks protect the things that help consumers tell companies apart.

Trademarks and Avoiding Consumer Confusion: Crash Course Intellectual Property #5

This week, Stan Muller teaches you how intellectual property law functions internationally. Like, between countries. Well, guess what. There's kind of no such thing as international law. But we can talk about treaties.

International IP Law: Crash Course Intellectual Property #6

In which Stan Muller talks about some of the problems in Intellectual Property law as it exists today. He'll also teach you a little about how IP law applies to everyone's favorite media platform, YouTube. Lastly, he'll do a little prognosticating, and try to predict how IP law might change.