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Learn more about copyright and authors’ rights

Calling all composers and songwriters - learn more about copyright and authors’ rights with CISAC and FutureLearn.

Jim Ottewill
  • By Jim Ottewill
  • 8 Mar 2017
  • min read
The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) and FutureLearn are coming together to offer a free four week course for all those interested in analysing copyright.

The free four week Exploring Copyright: History, Culture, Industry course will begin on 20 March and is aimed at showing how music creators have made money from their work as well as how this ecosystem has changed over recent years.

Marisa Gandelman, musician, music teacher and one time copyright lawyer, will teach the course alongside Ben Costantini, an instructor in Global Entertainment and Music Business at the Valencia Campus of Berklee College of Music.

According to FutureLearn, by the culmination of the course, participants will ‘be familiar with the concepts of copyright and authors’ rights, be able to analyse further how copyright became a powerful tool in the marketplace for artistic work’.

You will also be able to ‘build your understanding of the legal framework for the protection of creative work, comparing it to the common sense idea of artistic work as public good [as well as] propose methods to raise awareness of the legal protection system as an essential tool for building a fair trade market for creators’.

Visit the FutureLearn website to register your interest.