UChicago Free Online Course on Technology and Law

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This course introduces students to the antitrust, copyright and network industries, teached by Prof. Randal Picker at the University of Chicago.

Prof. Randal Picker is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law and senior fellow at the Computation Institute, University if Chicago.

The course, UChicago’s first self-paced online offering, is provided through Coursera, an educational technology company that specializes in massive open online courses or MOOCs. It will cover seven topics:

• Microsoft: The U.S. and European Union cases against Microsoft that arose when competition between the free-standing personal computer and the Internet world was at its height;
• Google: The fight over Google search in the United States and Europe;
• Smartphones: The complex legal infrastructure of smartphones and tablets and the ongoing antitrust, patent and copyright litigation among manufacturers and over the iPhone/iOS and the Android operating systems;
• Net neutrality: The debate over network neutrality and efforts by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to produce sensible and sustainable nondiscrimination conditions for the Internet;
• Music sharing: The history of music technology in the home (the Victrola and the player piano), the creation of radio and then the modern era: the rise of peer-to-peer music sharing and the copyright issues and litigation that have followed and then digital distribution (iTunes and Spotify);
• Video—listening and watching: The road from government regulation of the radio spectrum to the development of cable TV, the VCR, DVDs, digital television and the challenges faced by emerging video distribution technologies like Netflix and Aereo;
• Ebooks: The rise of the electronic book and the era of the mediated book, focusing on Google, Amazon and Apple.

The seven-week class, “Internet Giants: The Law and Economics of Media Platforms,” will be available beginning July 13.

If interested then please signup the course here.

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