Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Legal Aspects of Cultural Management Course
Other languages of instruction: Spanish
Introduction
According to the Master’s itinerary, this course is taught in two separate groups: Spanish and English.
The professor in charge of the Spanish group is Cristina Calvet and the professor responsible for the English group is Dr Marc Simon Altaba. Furthermore, the latter group has another professor, Amilcar Vargas, who is in charge of the first part of this course, concerning International Law and Culture.
Given the diverse geographic origin of the students in the English group, this course will use the parameters of international law and will include aspects of European law (European Union).
This course is made up of two parts, each of which will comprise the same number of sessions:
- The first part will focus on the way International Public Law protects and manages culture and art in all of its forms, both tangible and intangible.
- The second part will focus on the regime of intellectual property, taking into account the process of international harmonisation that this discipline has recently experienced.
- Both parts of the course will have theoretical content as well as practical cases.
Pre-course requirements
The same as for the Master's Degree.
Objectives
The main objectives of this course are the following:
- To become familiar with and learn to use legal terminology and concepts.
- To be able to access and interpret international law regarding culture and art.
- To solve legal issues regarding the protection and management of culture and art.
- To achieve a global overview of the set of rules which regulate this area of knowledge and understand the consequences of violating those regulations.
- To provide students with an understanding of core aspects of intellectual property laws and practice.
- To encourage students to think pragmatically about the importance of intellectual property rights in the cultural business.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
Be able to understand, interpret and implement the Spanish and International law which regulates and protects culture and art, in particular the fundamental aspects of Intellectual Property in order to manage and contract cultural contents and services.
Learning outcomes of the subject
At the end of this course, the student
- Uses legal terminology and concepts.
- nderstands and interprets national and international law regarding culture and art.
- Knows and uses the basic aspects of intellectual property rights.
- Masters the techniques and skills necessary for the negotiation of contracts for the management of cultural content.
Syllabus
FIRST PART: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CULTURE
UNIT 1. Culture regulation in International Conventions
1.1 Culture Protection in International Conventions
1.2 Culture and International Organisations
1.3 UNESCO and the protection of the World Heritage
1.4 Council of Europe. Human Rights and Cultural Cooperation
1.5 Main Conventions on Cultural Co-operation and Cultural Exchanges
UNIT 2. Culture in the European Union
2.1 Culture: from the EC Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty
2.2 The Legal framework of Culture in the EC Law
2.3 The European Agenda for Culture in a Globalising World
2.4 First generation of cultural programmes and the new culture programme (2007-2013)
2.5 Achievements and Challenges
UNIT 3 The protection and trade of Cultural Goods
3.1 Definition of Cultural Good
3.2 The Protection of Cultural Goods in International Conventions
3.3 The Protection of Cultural goods in the EU Directive and EU Regulation
3.4 The Protection of Cultural goods in the Conventions of the Council of Europe
3.5 Present and future overviews
SECOND PART: LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
UNIT 1. Introduction to Intellectual Property
UNIT 2. Copyright
2.1 A brief history and fundamentals
2.2 Subject matter and scope of Copyright
2.3 Moral and Economic rights
2.4 Neighbouring rights
2.5 Copyright limitations
2.6 Copyright Ownership and Transfer
UNIT 3. Industrial Property
3.1 Trademarks
3.2 Designs
3.3 Patents
3.4 Cumulative protection and Copyright
UNIT 4. International protection of Intellectual Property
4.1 IP Infringement and Remedies
4.2 Sanctions and measures
Teaching and learning activities
In person
The methodology of this subject includes theoretical lectures and the resolution of practical cases. These tasks will be complemented by different readings, such as international conventions, regulations or laws, as well as doctrinal and jurisprudential texts.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
In order to pass, the student must pass each of the two parts of this course.
I
- Continuous assessment (case-studies, individual and teamwork activities, discussions and oral presentations) 30%
- Attendance: 10%
- Final exam: 60%
II
- Active participation (class attendance, participation in case studies, group tasks, discussions): 40%
- Final exam: 60%
The final grade is the sum of the two parts, but to pass the course, both parts must be passed individually. If a student fails a part of the course, he/she will have to pass it in the 2nd call.
Attendance to class:
Any student who misses more than 4 sessions of the course, will not be allowed to take the 1st call final exam, and will have to take the 2nd call exam.
Students shall inform the professor about class absences if they wish, but only the Secretary of the Master is entitled to justify an absence in class, and can inform the students about the criteria on this matter.
Bibliography and resources
PART I:
Kurt Siehr, The Protection OF Cultural Heritage and International Commerce, International Journal of Cultural Property, Cambridge University Press, pp. 304-326, 1997.
Craig Forrest, International Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Heritage Museum Studies, Routledge, UK.
Barbara T. Hoffman, Art and Cultural Heritage, Cambridge, 2006.
D’Angelo, Mario and Paul Vespérini, Cultural policies in Europe: a comparative approach, Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1998.
Aron M. Milrad, Artful Ownership : Art Law, Valuation, and Commerce in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, American Society of Appraisers, 2000.
David Ward, The European Union and the Culture Industries: Regulation and the Public Interest, Ashgate, pp. 282, 2008.
Clare Hall, Telecommunications Regulation: Culture, Chaos and Interdependance Inside the Regulatory Process, Routledge, pp., 1999.
Kenneth A Thompson, Media and Cultural Regulation (Culture, Media and Identities series), Sage Publications Ltd; illustrated edition edition, pp. 256, 1997.
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, History and Evolution of International Cultural Heritage Law: Through the Question of the Removal and Return of Cultural Objects, Accepted Paper Series, Faculty of Laws, University of Western Australi, 2009.
Aaron M. Milrad, Artful Ownership : Art Law, Valuation, and Commerce in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; American Society of Appraisers, pp.342, 2000.
Simon Evers Hjelmborg, Peter Stig Jakobsen and Sune Troels Poulsen, Public Procurement Law - The EU Directive on Public Contracts, Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing, Pp 450, 2006.
Enrique Banús Irusta, Problemas derivados de la identidad cultural en el context de la ampliación de la Unión Europea, European Union at twenty-five: political and economic challenges, pp.189-204, 2005.
Enrique Banús Irusta; Lengua, nación, Europa; Pulchre, bene recte: homenaje al prof. Fernando González Ollé, pp.139-154,2002.
Enrique Banús Irusta, Participación ciudadana en el nuevo auge de la cultura: ejemplos de la vida teatral y musical, la participación en las organizaciones: un desafío para el nuevo milenio, pp.223-230, 2001.
Enrique Banús Irusta, ¿Desde o hacia el multiculturalismo? Un concepto y su plasmación en la UE y Consejo de Europa?, Razón práctica y multiculturalismo: actas del 1er Simposio Internacional de Filosofía y Ciencias Sociales, pp. 259-78, 1999.
PART II:
Intellectual property law, Bently, Lionel, Oxford University Press, [2018]
International copyright : principles, law, and practice, Goldstein, Paul, New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
Contemporary intellectual property : law and policy, Brown, Abbe Elizabeth Lockhart, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
European intellectual property law : text, cases and materials, Kur, Annette, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2019]
Art and copyright, Stokes, Simon, Oxford : Hart, 2021
Copyright in the music industry : a practical guide to exploiting and enforcing rights, Bosher, Hayleigh
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2021]
Copyright and fundamental rights in the digital age : a comparative analysis in search of a common constitutional ground, Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2020]
Defences to copyright infringement: creativity, innovation and freedom on the Internet, Karapapa, Stavroula, New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
The right of communication to the public in EU copyright law, Koo, Justin, Oxford, UK : Hart Publishing, 2019
Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union, Rosati, Eleonora, Oxford : Oxford Scholarship Online, 2019
The copyright/design interface : past, present and future, Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Concise european copyright law, The Hague : Kluwer Law International, 2016
Understanding copyright : intellectual property in the digital age, Klein, Bethany, London : Routledge, 2015
Concepts of music and copyright : how music perceives itself and how copyright perceives music, Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]
3D printing and intellectual property, Osborn, Lucas S., Cambridge University Press, 2019