Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004. He teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. Professor Netanel received his B.A. from Yale University (1976), J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law (1980), and J.S.D. from Stanford University (1998). From 1980 to 1981, Netanel was Assistant to the General Counsel of the State of Israel's Environmental Protection Service. He then practiced law at Loeb and Loeb in Los Angeles (1981-84) and Yigal Arnon and Co. in Tel-Aviv (1985 to 1992).After completing his J.S.D. coursework at Stanford Law School in 1994, Netanel joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White and Durkee Centennial Professor of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of Haifa University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Toronto, and New York University. Professor Netanel's recent scholarship includes; Copyright's Paradox; Property in Expression/Freedom of Expression (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005); Copyright and the First Amendment; What Eldred Misses - and Portends, in Copyright and Free Speech; Comparative and International Analyses (J. Griffiths and U. Suthersanen, eds, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005), Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, 17 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 1 (2003); The Commodification of Information (Niva Elkin-Koren and Neil Weinstock Netanel eds., Kluwer Law International 2002); and Locating Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein, 54 Stanford Law Review 1 (2001).

Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004 and teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. In this clips he gives advice about copyright and what you should do to protect your intellectual property.

Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004 and teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. In this clip he gives a personal background and how he got to teach copyright law.

Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in the fall of 2004. He teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. In this clip he talks about copyright ownership when a song has multiple authors.

Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in the Fall of 2004. He teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. In this clip he talks about the basics of understanding copyright and what rights people have with a copyright.

Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004 and teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. In this clip he talks about the effects and legal implications of digital downloading.

Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004. He teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. In this clip he discusses several forms of copyright encryption for CDs and DVDs done by DMCA which encrypts digital material protecting it from piracy. He points out that many hackers can break these encryptions. He also duscusses artists who allow their works to be copied, but with certain restrictions.

Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004. He teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. In this clip he talks about the differences between downloading intellectual property and streaming the material.

Copyright professor Neil Netanel discusses the interpretation of Fair Use and Compulsory Licensing. He describes the original intent of the law, the differences between fair use and compulsory licensing, and how judges decide whether the use of copyrighted music is fair or not.

Copyright professor Neil Netanel discusses the history of the Audio Home Recording Act. Originally it was conceived in response to audio recording devices and gave people the right to copy music in their homes. In return the music industry gained monies form a levy imposed on the sale of all audio recording devices as well as CD sales. Today, Netanel refers to the act a a dead letter in that computers, which were not covered in the act, have replaced those earlier recording devices allowing peer-to-peer sharing of digital music.

Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004 and teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. In this clip he talks about proving copyright infringement and the legal actions you can take.

UCLA Professor of Law Neil Netanel discusses the evolution of sampling and the jurisprudence of sampling, and the current state of copyright law in regard to the practice. He also discusses where the line between ā€œfair useā€ and copyright infringement is currently considered to be, and the risks that artists take on when they choose to sample existing works.