Copyright Law

About This Course

This course seeks to equip participants with a basic understanding of how various aspects of Copyright law can be applied to support and drive businesses in achieving their business strategies and objectives.

What you'll learn

This course is designed for participants to understand how basic knowledge of Copyright law is applied to support an organisation.

This course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to:

Identify relevant aspects of copyright law which are applicable to the organisation in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
Analyse how copyright law can drive organisation’s copyright strategies and objectives.
Assess potential courses of action to identify resulting business implications

Prerequisites

This course does not have any pre-requisites. We do, however, make certain assumptions about your learning abilities, which we describe as assumed knowledge and skills. Learners in this course are assumed to:

have analytical skills to identify applicable types of IP
have communication skills to articulate various types of IP
have information gathering skills to collate necessary data
have organisational skills to support implementation of registration procedures in a timely manner
have business ethics and integrity

Meet the instructors

Ms. Teo Yi-Ling

Senior Faculty; Group Head (Graduate Studies); Senior Legal Counsel, IP Academy

Biography

Ms Teo Yi-Ling is a qualified Barrister-at-Law (England & Wales) and an Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore).

Yi-Ling has practice experience in the areas of intellectual property, technology, media and entertainment, and corporate and commercial law. She has worked with independent producers and production companies, writers, creative agencies and consultants, government and regulatory agencies, social enterprise organisations, and technology and innovation companies.

Yi-Ling holds a LL.B (Hons) from the University of Liverpool, UK, and a LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, USA, and is the author of "Media Law in Singapore", published by Sweet & Maxwell. Her book is used as a course and reference text by most media-related diploma, degree and postgraduate programmes in Singapore tertiary institutions.

On the academic front, Yi-Ling has over a decade of teaching experience, having taught media law, copyright law, entertainment business law and media ethics at a number of tertiary institutions, including New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, LaSalle College of the Arts, Puttnam School of Film, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, and the University of Newcastle, Sydney. Alongside her academic function at some of these schools, she has worked with management in developing intellectual property policies, and provided legal guidance for institution-level and student projects.

Qualifications

LL.M. (Northwestern University, Chicago)
LL.B. (Hons) (University of Liverpool)

Areas of Specialisation

Intellectual Property Law
Technology, Media and Entertainment Law
Corporate and Commercial Law

Memberships and Associations

Member, Singapore Academy of Law
Co-Founder, Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association

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