Pennsylvania (PA) Licensing CLE Course Catalog

Learn what you need to know about the Dark Web, including blockchain technology and its role in trademark transactions.

This course is the first part of our series on “Contract Drafting for Beginning Transactional Attorneys.” It can be watched on its own or as part of the series. In addition to the course content described, we will give practice notes for drafting, negotiating, and advising clients and relate the material here to other parts of this series.

In this program, our experts will discuss standard licensing and how “open licenses” differ. They will describe the business model around open licenses, some terms of art, and some practice pointers around client use of open source. Most of the program will center around Creative Commons licenses for openly licensing content.

You’ll learn about the different “characteristics” licenses and how they may be limited in ways like duration and geographic area. We’ll do a deep dive into using APIs in the software context and for music licensing in the content creation context. We’ll briefly introduce concepts open licenses which are becoming increasingly important which will segue into the next program in our series about open licensing and creative commons. Throughout, we will give practice notes for drafting, negotiating, and advising clients around license agreements and relate the material here to other parts of this series.

In this program, Art and Shaun from New Right Media will walk through the basics of fair use and its “four factor” test. They’ll further break down the analysis of those four factors into their sub-factors, highlighting case examples where a factor was particularly critical to the final ruling.

In this course, Art Neil and Shaun Spalding from New Media Rights will walk through the basics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which complicates traditional copyright analysis in the online context.

This course will walk through the basics of IP laying the foundation for what copyright is and isn't. It will describe how one secures copyright protection and afterwards what rights that protection conveys to the owner. It ends with a brief survey of practical copyright concepts regarding licensing (getting "permission" to use third-party works) and infringement.