Class Law Applied to Communication Projects

This curricular unit aims to explain the close and necessary relationship between communication and law, alerting doctoral students to the main branches of law to take into consideration for compliance with and respect for the legal rules in force, essential for adequate and structured communication in a rule of law. Doctoral students must be able to make the co-relationship between Law and Communication, and must know the rights and obligations implicit in Communication, identifying possible legal violations in order to actively and diligently avoid them in different areas of law.

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Program contents: 1. Relationship between communication and law: branches of law to take into consideration 2. Practical applicability of law in communication projects 3. Personality rights and their particularities 4. Freedom of expression and its limits 5. Respect for copyright and respect for the protected work 6. The free use of works under article 75 of the CDADC as a limit to copyright: critical analysis 7. Authorship and ownership of works 8. Orphan works and their problems 9. Abusive use of works and its civil, administrative and criminal consequences 10. Works subject to Creative Commons and Open Access licenses – rules for legal use 11. Respect for the General Data Protection Regime and its implications

The methodologies to be used during the teaching of the Curricular Unit involve the use of the expository and demonstrative method. Various brainstorming sessions will be carried out, as well as analysis of practical situations, namely jurisprudential decisions from higher courts. This analysis of real situations will allow for active discussion of the topics to be addressed, and reflection that will stimulate critical-legal thinking, which proves to be essential for students in the third cycle of studies in Communication and Activism.

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