Artistic License: Intellectual Property in the American Music Industry

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both GERM1702 and MUSA1702. What does it mean to ethically own art? These paired courses challenge students to question the nature of authenticity as it is legally constructed and performed in the media they engage with on a daily basis. Through the two distinct yet intertwined topics of stolen art and copied music, these courses attend to core concerns of ethical ownership. By the end of the semester, students will be able to form and articulate sophisticated ideas about how authenticity is produced, performed, and sold among art collectors and in the music industry, gaining an informed perspective on the ways in which the law assesses truth in art and music.