- UAB Microcredential
- Code: 5208/1
- 1st edition
- Modality: Online
- Credits: 6 ECTS
- Start date: 07/10/2025
- Finish date: 18/12/2025
- Places: 25
- Orientation: Professional
- Price: 819 €
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Special price 246 €
Group of application: Amount with the NextGenerationUE Fund discount applied
- Teaching language: Spanish
- Location: Synchronous online teaching on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Intellectual Property Legislation is increasingly essential knowledge for the legal development of many activities and professions not only to avoid infringing on others rights, but also to protect ones own creations. The digital world has made it easier to create and share content, but at the same time, it has also increased the risk of copyright infringement.
In this course, students will gain the theoretical and practical foundation necessary to understand and apply the Revised Text of the Intellectual Property Law, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of April 12. This course also explains the difference between intellectual property law (which concerns intangible creations such as literary and artistic works) and patent law (which protects technical inventions and original industrial processes).
Objectives:
- Understand the theoretical foundations of intellectual property rights.
- Apply the theoretical framework and legal criteria of intellectual property rights.
- Identify the exceptions to intellectual property rights.
- Understand the special regimes within intellectual property law.
- Learn about related (neighboring) rights.
Curriculum:
Module 1. Foundations of the Intellectual Property Regime
- The concept of a work and the involved parties. Differences with patent protection.
- Moral rights.
- Practical examples of moral rights.
- Economic (exploitation) rights.
- Practical examples of exploitation rights.
Module 2. Protection of Intellectual Property
- Limitations and exceptions to protection.
- The transfer regime of rights and infringements.
Module 3. Special Intellectual Property Regimes
- Audiovisual works, computer programs, databases, and GPL licenses.
- Artificial intelligence and intellectual property protection.
Module 4. Related Rights
- Production of phonograms and audiovisual recordings, publishing rights, broadcasting entities.
- Artistic performances andmere photographs.
Registration:
If you are interested in learning about and applying current legislation on Intellectual Property, dont hesitate to enroll. This course is ideal for gaining a foundational understanding of the rules and criteria needed to work in any organization without violating Intellectual Property rights.
Any professional, in any sector, will eventually face the challenge of how to use information without infringing copyright, as this issue is highly transversal in todays society.
Dont miss the opportunity to gain skills in such a crucial area for the legal development of so many activities across numerous disciplines.
- Protection of intellectual property
- Special regimes of intellectual property
- Related rights
- Managers or professionals from centers, institutions, or archives that store and handle documentation, both in the public and private sectors.
- Journalists.
- Publishing company staff.
- Law firm personnel.
- Staff from administrative agencies.
- Employees from companies in any sector.
- Media professionals (press, television, and multimedia).
- Document management and archiving companies.
- Technology and entertainment companies.
- Intellectual property offices.
- Rights management organizations and consultancies.
- University and educational center staff.
- Public administration personnel.
- Staff from museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions.
- Research centers.
- Staff from professional associations and colleges.
- Image banks and sound archives.
- Art and photography galleries.
- Record label professionals.
- Professionals seeking to upskill or transition into new career opportunities.
In this course, students will gain the theoretical and practical foundation necessary to understand and apply the Revised Text of the Intellectual Property Law, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of April 12. This course also explains the difference between intellectual property law (which concerns intangible creations such as literary and artistic works) and patent law (which protects technical inventions and original industrial processes).
Objectives:
- Understand the theoretical foundations of intellectual property rights.
- Apply the theoretical framework and legal criteria of intellectual property rights.
- Identify the exceptions to intellectual property rights.
- Understand the special regimes within intellectual property law.
- Learn about related (neighboring) rights.
Curriculum:
Module 1. Foundations of the Intellectual Property Regime
- The concept of a work and the involved parties. Differences with patent protection.
- Moral rights.
- Practical examples of moral rights.
- Economic (exploitation) rights.
- Practical examples of exploitation rights.
Module 2. Protection of Intellectual Property
- Limitations and exceptions to protection.
- The transfer regime of rights and infringements.
Module 3. Special Intellectual Property Regimes
- Audiovisual works, computer programs, databases, and GPL licenses.
- Artificial intelligence and intellectual property protection.
Module 4. Related Rights
- Production of phonograms and audiovisual recordings, publishing rights, broadcasting entities.
- Artistic performances andmere photographs.
Registration:
If you are interested in learning about and applying current legislation on Intellectual Property, dont hesitate to enroll. This course is ideal for gaining a foundational understanding of the rules and criteria needed to work in any organization without violating Intellectual Property rights.
Any professional, in any sector, will eventually face the challenge of how to use information without infringing copyright, as this issue is highly transversal in todays society.
Dont miss the opportunity to gain skills in such a crucial area for the legal development of so many activities across numerous disciplines.
Contents
- The foundations of the intellectual property regime- Protection of intellectual property
- Special regimes of intellectual property
- Related rights
Career opportunities
Professionals from any field who work with documentation and information that may be subject to copyright, such as:- Managers or professionals from centers, institutions, or archives that store and handle documentation, both in the public and private sectors.
- Journalists.
- Publishing company staff.
- Law firm personnel.
- Staff from administrative agencies.
- Employees from companies in any sector.
- Media professionals (press, television, and multimedia).
- Document management and archiving companies.
- Technology and entertainment companies.
- Intellectual property offices.
- Rights management organizations and consultancies.
- University and educational center staff.
- Public administration personnel.
- Staff from museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions.
- Research centers.
- Staff from professional associations and colleges.
- Image banks and sound archives.
- Art and photography galleries.
- Record label professionals.
- Professionals seeking to upskill or transition into new career opportunities.
Scholarships and financial aid
Within the framework of the plan for the development of university microcredentials, tuition scholarships are offered.
Funded by the "Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan - Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU."
See the application information on the FUAB Microcredentials scholarships and grants and application information page.
Coordinating centres
FUAB Formació. Archivística y Gestión de Documentos
Collaborating centres
Vidimus
Contact
Ariadna Morente Pagès
Phone: 935929710