Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Law
Teaching staff
A convenir (mnebrera@uic.es)
Introduction
The aim of the course is to situate the student in the legal framework in which he/she will develop his/her profession. All audiovisual communication professionals must know this framework and the legal limits that condition the exercise of their professional activity and, above all, understand its practical application. In this way, audiovisual communication will be carried out in a professional and responsible manner, respecting its legal limits and, at the same time, exercising the corresponding rights.
After taking and passing the course, the student will have acquired the basic legal basis that will serve as a guideline for their future professional practice. In this way, they will be in a position to analyse whether a given professional action is in line with the established legal limits, thus avoiding possible liabilities arising from non-compliance with current legislation.
Pre-course requirements
This subject does not have prerequisites.
Objectives
Acquire knowledge of:
The structure of the Spanish legal system.
Basic notions on freedom of information and its limits.
Basic notions of contracts.
The rights and powers that make up intellectual property, especially with regard to audiovisual works.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 01 - The ability to adapt to varying circumstances
- 02 - The ability to understand, accept criticism and correct errors
- 03 - The ability to administer and manage human and technical resources
- 04 - The ability to work in a team and autonomously
- 05 - The ability to organise time and workspace
- 06 - The ability to develop academic rigour, responsibility, ethics and professionalism
- 07 - The ability to apply the deontology and respect for the audiovisual sector
- 08 - The ability of critical analysis, synthesis, concretion and abstraction
- 09 - The ability to objectify, quantify and interpret (data, statistics, empirical evidence )
- 10 - The ability to confront difficulties and resolve problems
- 11 - The ability to generate debate and reflection
- 12 - The ability to meet deadlines, develop the ability to be punctual and respect for human, technical and material resources
- 13 - The ability to create spoken and written communication
- 15 - Knowledge and mastery of body language and techniques for public speaking
- 16 - The ability to manage, analysis and reflect on content
- 20 - Knowledge and mastery of bibliographic media
- 21 - Knowledge and mastery of the digital culture
- 26 - The ability to develop a sense of taste and perfection in the aesthetics and finalization of projects
- 28 - Knowledge and mastery of principle economic concepts.
- 29 - The ability to budget projects of differing magnitude
- 30 - The ability to study the feasibility of an audiovisual product
- 31 - The ability to understand the financial systems of media groups and companies.
- 35 - The ability to contextualize and critically analyze the products of the audiovisual industry
- 37 - The ability to contextualize and critically analyze the organizational structure of global communication
- 38 - The ability to understand and apply the structure of the audiovisual system
- 39 - The ability to understand and apply the legal dimension of an audiovisual product
- 40 - The ability to defend and respect authorship and intellectual property
- 41 - The ability to know how the distinct elemental agencies of the audio visual sector function
- 53 - Lingustic ability in Catalan, Spanish and English
- 54 - The ability to skillfully manage the literature, terminology and linguistic structures of the English language related to the field of communication.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- Know and understand the distinction between Public Law and Private Law.
- Know and understand the main institutions of Civil Law.
- To be able to discern if a legal business is or is not valid.
- To be able to know and distinguish what is and what is not protected by intellectual property.
- To know which are the moral and patrimonial rights that make up the intellectual property.
- Be able to understand and analyze the basic elements of an intellectual property contract.
- To know what are the rights of the personality (honor, privacy and own image), its legal protection and its limits.
- Know and understand how the collective management of Intellectual Property rights is organized.
- Know and understand the meaning and significance of creative commons licenses.
Syllabus
1. Basic concepts of the legal system
1.1. Basic legal concepts.
1.2. Distinction between public and private law. 1.3.
1.3. Natural person and legal person.
2. Contracts, Consumers and Advertising
2.1 The contract and its essential elements
2.2 Consumer and user rights
2.3 Advertising law
3. Intellectual Property Law
3.1 Introduction to Intellectual Property Law
3.2 Copyright: a brief history and basics
3.3 Subject matter and scope of copyright law
3.4 Moral and economic rights
3.5 Related rights
3.6 Limitations of copyright
3.7 Transfer of copyright
3.8 Infringement and remedies
3.9 New Technologies
4. IndustrialProperty Law
4.1 Introduction to Industrial Property
4.2 Trade Marks, Designs and Patents
5. Fundamental Rights and Freedom of Expression
5.1 Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Principles
5.2. Defining elements of the right to information: truthfulness and public relevance of information
5.3. Limits to the right to information: personal rights (honour, privacy and self-image)
5.4. Protection of personal data
6. IA and the new comunication agents
Teaching and learning activities
In person
| TRAINING ACTIVITY | ECTS CREDITS |
| Lectures. In lectures, lecturers/professors not only transmit content or knowledge, but also, and above all else, attitudes, motivation, skills and values, etc. They also ensure that participants can express their opinions and arguments to the other students. | 1.4 |
| Coaching. Monitoring how students learn the content of the subject, either individually or in groups. In the coaching sessions, mistakes will be corrected, queries answered, and exercises and activities to achieve the established objectives will be suggested. | 0.1 |
| Focused Praxis. Handing in occasional exercises to learn theory through practice. | 0.7 |
| Meeting Point. Meetings will be organised with notable people from the professional and scientific fields or the international field, and students. These sessions will take the form of conferences, work sessions, discussions, or interviews, etc. | 0.2 |
| Peer learning. The aim of this activity is to ensure that students gain the ability to analyse and be critical. One way of achieving this is by correcting their peers' exercises and results, etc. Each student will be evaluated twice: as both a recipient and a transmitter of critical knowledge. | 0.5 |
| Mentoring programme. Ensuring a review of and in-depth look at competences and knowledge, as well as the development of habits involving social commitment and responsibility, with the strongest students providing guidance for students from lower years, particularly if they have any type of disability (physical, etc). | 0.1 |
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
First call: The evaluation will be continuous and will consist of:
- Final Exam (40%). Test type, 20 questions. Four possible answers. Errors subtract 0.25 points
- Continuous evaluation - participation, exhibition of works, resolution of practices - (60%).
The evaluation system of the second call and subsequent calls will maintain that of the first call, in cases where the continuous evaluation has been passed. Otherwise, the final exam will count for 100% of the grade.
Bibliography and resources
- Latorre, A. Introducción al Derecho. Ed. Ariel. Barcelona, 1997
- Díez Picazo, L. y Gullón, Antonio. Sistema de Derecho Civil. Volumen II. 11ª ed. Ed. Tecnos. Madrid. 2016
- Bercovitz Rodríguez-Cano, Rodrigo (Coord.). Manual de Propiedad Intelectual, 9º ed. Tirant lo Blanch. Valencia. 2019.
- Fernández-Nóvoa, Carlos, Manual de la propiedad industrial, Marcial Pons, 3ª ed, Madrid, 2017
- Simón Altaba, M., La creación musical y el derecho de autor. Originalidad, plagio y tecnología digital, Juruá, Lisboa, 2021