Enrollment to the CopyrightX – Turin University Affiliate Course 2022 Now Open!

Turin, 3 February 2022

CopyrightX is a course on Copyright Law, developed by Professor William Fisher III at Harvard Law School and first offered online in the spring semester of 2013, under the auspices of the HarvardX distance-learning initiative, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. The next Harvard Law School CopyrightX – Turin University Affiliated Course will be taught from mid-February to mid-May of 2022.

The course explores the current law of copyright, the impact of that law on art, entertainment, and industry, and the ongoing debates concerning how the law should be reformed. Through a combination of recorded lectures, assigned readings, weekly seminars, live interactive webcasts, and online discussions, participants in the course, examine and assess the ways in which the copyright system seeks to stimulate and regulate creative expression.

Turin Affiliated Course

Previous editions of the Harvard Law School CopyrightX – Turin University Affiliated Course gathered together a very diverse group, including students at the Law School of the University of Turin and Alessandria and former participants in the LLM program in Intellectual Property Law jointly organized by the University of Turin and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Admission to the Harvard Law School CopyrightX – Turin University Affiliated Course is free and is open to anyone holding a bachelor’s degree. However, the process is highly competitive, and enrollment is limited to a maximum of 20 successful applicants.

The Harvard University CopyrightX – Turin University Affiliated Course is coordinated by Maximiliano Marzetti, currently Assistant Professor of Law at IESEG School of Management in Paris, and former Deputy Director to the Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Law jointly organized by the University of Turin and the World Intellectual Property Organization, under the supervision of Alessandro Cogo, Associate Professor of Intellectual Property and Business Law at the University of Turin, School of Law and Director of the LLM in Intellectual Property jointly offered by the University of Turin and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Seminars are held online, taught by the course’s Lead Faculty, for one hour and a half each week, according to the schedule outlined below, and are supplemented with online discussion and assigned readings. Note that assistance to the weekly online sessions is mandatory and required to obtain the Certificate. If you are not sure you can comply with this commitment, please do not apply; you may preclude another qualified candidate that may be able to attend all of the sessions.

Tentative dates of the weekly online seminars:

  • February 15, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • February 22, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • March 1, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • March 8, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • March 15, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • March 22, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • March 29, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • April 5, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • April 12, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • April 19, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • April 26, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)
  • May 3, 2022, 18:30h Central European Time (CET)

The final exam will be held on a date to be announced, in early to mid-May 2022. Participants normally have 72h to complete it.

Admission to the Harvard Law School CopyrightX – Turin University affiliated course is now open. Applications to the 2022 edition are accepted until midnight (CET) of February 10, 2022. Selected candidates will be notified before midnight (CET) of February 12, 2022. Students should confirm their participation before midday (CET) of February 14, 2022. Failure to confirm will result in their place being assigned to the next candidate in the selection list. Accepted candidates that confirm but do not show at the weekly seminars will be dropped and barred from applying again for two consecutive years. Rejected candidates will not be notified.