This LLM gives you the opportunity to analyse how technology, media and telecommunications law has affected the application of traditional legal principles. Examine complex issues, advances and developments in law and policy and learn how to apply this knowledge to directly influence your professional development. These rapid changes lead to many legal questions: what is the “free press” at a time when journalists are being pushed to click? Who is a journalist when access to publishing technology has become democratized? Are laws on the protection of journalists still relevant when technology allows the government to secretly spy on journalists? Does the law play a role in the fight against fake news? Can and should the First Amendment (or another law) protect the press from pressure from tech platforms? What role does the law play in protecting journalists, the press or the journalistic process? This course aims to encourage deep thinking, discussion, and writing about the answers to these questions. This course builds on the reality that what a lawyer needs to know about the impact of information technology on litigation transcends traditional boundaries between law school courses and generally addresses the impact of information technology on the management and negotiation of criminal, civil, and administrative matters. Students gain a thorough understanding of the core issues of these topics through a combination of recorded lectures, group discussions in a moderated online forum, face-to-face reading, and group exercises combined with an assessment system suitable for online learning. Cornell Tech`s Master of Laws in Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship is the first degree of its kind in the world. It`s a one-year immersion in innovation, creativity and new business development where you can learn side-by-side with designers, engineers, and business students. Together, as a team, you create new products for existing companies in Product Studio and develop your own new business in Startup Studio. You will be immersed in studying the legal and transactional skills emerging technology companies need in hands-on courses designed specifically for this programme. You`ll also have plenty of opportunities to network with the vibrant community of entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, and professors that only a city like New York City and a university like Cornell can offer. This course addresses legal and business issues related to the development, production and operation of entertainment products, with a focus on film, television and digital content.

Topics include contracts and contractual relationships in the entertainment industry; individual rights and rights of publicity; protection of literary material; protection of ideas; Representation of clients in the entertainment industry; issues arising from the exploitation of entertainment works in the distribution chain; the roles of agents, managers and creative leaders; and backend accounting. We will examine how digital innovations and technologies have radically changed the production and distribution of content, and how relevant laws, public policies and business principles apply to this industry (including the role of copyright and antitrust law in corporate history). The class will strive to emphasize the actual legal activity and promote a client`s interests through careful business analysis, contract language drafting, and legal interpretation. Starting from an examination of the essential principles of e-discovery through non-traditional evidentiary concepts for internal, governmental, and external lawyers, this seminar prepares students to enter the workforce with a better understanding of what organizations require of lawyers, particularly from a technology and information risk perspective. In this program, you`ll shape your experience and draw inspiration from a wide range of industry-specific courses. Northeastern Law`s online LLM program allows you to choose from three sought-after areas of intervention, developed with input from experts from business and industry, as well as through the school`s personalized research: From AI to robots to social media, countries around the world are vying to regulate new technologies. Regulation is the most important mechanism for integrating technology into an enforceable ethical framework. Will international competition trigger a race to the bottom to encourage innovation at the expense of consumer protection? How can nations cultivate their own Silicon Valley in accordance with their ethical values? We will explore how the same technology – from internet platforms and algorithms to drones, self-driving cars, smart cities and sharing platforms – is regulated in different jurisdictions around the world. As countries around the world compete to become global leaders in artificial intelligence, how are they changing their laws for a world of automated decision-making? What can countries, states or cities learn from each other? Just as there are layers of technology network, there are regulatory layers: what is the right regulatory layer for a particular technology or activity – the nation, the region or the globe, or even the city or state? At a time of unprecedented technological change, how we regulate technology is more important than ever. Everything we do, we do at least in part online.

From commerce to language, Internet companies communicate our daily activities. Internet companies are changing our lives. Is the internet a free speech zone protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, or does it respect hate speech or foreign political speech regulations? Can copyright survive the Internet`s global copying machine? Is privacy dead when companies know almost 24/7 where you are and what you`re doing? This course focuses on U.S. case law and examines the evolution of law governing Internet companies. Digital technology has permeated every aspect of our economy, creating legal challenges and opportunities in the process. Traditional legal issues such as intellectual property and contract law have had to adapt to these new types of products and these new relationships with new actors. Technological innovation also requires regulation to protect our core values without stifling the progress and economic benefits of these innovations. Patent licenses enable different business objectives to be achieved in a variety of environments. This seminar will first examine patent licenses and related agreements to establish a company`s intellectual property from its inception to its subsequent growth.

We then explore the role of patent licensing in technology transfer within and outside a company or university, and in relationships with others in the marketplace. We examine in detail the elements of a patent license. The limitations of patent licensing and practice imposed by supply chain, antitrust, abuse and regulatory linkages are analysed. Finally, we examine the legal bases and strategies that influence patent licensing in different sectors of a knowledge-based economy. These sectors include biotechnology, software, standardization and patent enforcement in the secondary IP market. We also consider patent licenses in current open innovation and IP business models. Guest speakers are also consulted on specific topics. Students complete a negotiation and bachelor`s degree writing task in class. A take-home cumulative final exam will be conducted. This course explores the security requirements for voting systems (especially those used for citizen elections in the United States), how different technological designs and implementations do or do not meet these requirements, and how these systems can be improved.

The course focuses on the impact of various voting technologies (“voting machines”), as well as backend election management systems and processes that define ballots, register voters, provide constituency equipment, and perform vote counting and reporting. While this is not our primary focus, we will also explore the interaction between modern social media and foreign and domestic influence operations aimed at influencing election outcomes. This seminar will explore legal and policy issues related to cybersecurity – i.e. hacking and other interventions in global computer and communication networks. The focus will be on the impact of cybersecurity on national security and the current challenges faced by senior lawyers, policymakers and the private sector in addressing these issues.