Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Law
Teaching staff
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
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Objectives
- To know the structure of the Spanish legal system.
- Basic notions on freedom of information and its limits.
- Basic notions of contracts.
- To know the rights and powers that make up intellectual property, especially with regard to audiovisual works.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- To analyse audience behaviour and characteristics in the contemporary audiovisual environment.
- To contextualise major audiovisual works from their origins in order to understand their influence on the moral values of twentieth- and twenty-first-century societies.
- To explain the aesthetic evolution of audiovisual artistic works throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- To recognise the dynamics and influences of a globalised world, as well as the impact of the Internet on society, to create audiovisual content that appeals to diverse audiences.
- To understand the economic dimension of the audiovisual sector and the management of audiovisual companies.
- To understand the legal and institutional framework within which professional practice in the audiovisual sector takes place.
- To identify the legal framework governing the production and distribution of information and audiovisual content, including intellectual property and image rights.
- To remain up to date with the contemporary broadcasting landscape and streaming platforms to understand how they adapt to changing audience demands.
- To identify the leading contemporary content creators and their target audiences to understand their influence on different generations.
- To understand the social impact of the diversification of television series available on streaming platforms and to analyse their influence on the values and subcultures of the twenty-first century.
- To develop aesthetic criteria for understanding, evaluating, and relating audiovisual works, while cultivating artistic judgement and sensitivity.
- To analyse contemporary and digital culture by identifying artistic avant-garde movements and their historical evolution, recognising emerging trends, and identifying the principal references and styles of audiovisual language to understand their impact on human communication.
Syllabus
Topic 1. Basic concepts of the legal system
1.1. Basic legal concepts
1.2. Distinction between public Law and private Law
1.3. Natural persons and legal persons
Topic 2. Fundamental Rights and Free Public Opinion
2.1. Concept of fundamental rights
2.2. Classification of fundamental rights according to their content and guarantees
2.3. Effectiveness of fundamental rights
2.4. Rights within the personal sphere, with particular emphasis on the right to honour, personal and family privacy, and the right to one’s own image
2.5. Freedom of expression and freedom of information
2.6. Free public opinion and democracy
Topic 3. Contracts, Consumers and Advertising
3.1. The contract and its essential elements
3.2. The rights of consumers and users
3.3. Specific contracts in the field of audiovisual communication
3.4. Advertising law
3.5. Personal data protection
Topic 4. Intellectual Property Law
4.1. Introduction to Intellectual Property
4.2. Copyright: legal nature and legal basis
4.3. Subject matter and scope of application of copyright law
4.4. Moral rights and economic rights
4.5. Related rights
4.6. Limitations on copyright
4.7. Assignment and licensing of copyright
4.8. Copyright infringement and enforcement mechanisms
4.9. Protection of intellectual property rights
4.10. New technologies
Topic 5. Industrial Property Law
5.1. Introduction to Industrial Property
5.2. Trade marks, designs and patents
Bibliography and resources
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Cortés Pacheco, C., Introducción al Derecho, parte general y parte especial, Dykinson 2015.
Díez Picazo, L. y Gullón, Antonio. Sistema de Derecho Civil. Volumen II (última edición). Ed. Tecnos. Madrid. 2016.
Bercovitz Rodríguez-Cano, Rodrigo (Coord.). Manual de Propiedad Intelectual, (última edición). Tirant lo Blanch. Valencia. 2019.
Bercovitz Rodríguez-Cano, Rodrigo (Coord.). Comentarios a la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual. Ed. Tecnos, 4ª ed. Madrid. 2019.
Simón Altaba, M., La creación musical y el derecho de autor. Originalidad, plagio y tecnología digital, Juruá, Lisboa, 2021.
Luis López Guerra, Eduardo Espín, Manual de Derecho Constitucional Volumen I y II, Tirant, Valencia, 2022.