New York Law Blog

iTunes is about as ubiquitous as one can get when it comes to music, but did you know that  it also is a great repository for educational materials? Dubbed “iTunes U”, many podcasts (portable audio recordings) are available encompassing a wide variety of law topics, including patent law, copyright law and family law just to name a few. Prestigious universities are represented in the educational materials including Stanford, Vanderbilt and the New York Law School. All of the individual recordings are labeled with their specific content so that you can make an informed choice about what you would like to listen to. Take this for example from the MIT “Introduction to Copyright Law”:

This course is an introduction to copyright law and American law in general. Topics covered include: structure of federal law; basics of legal research; legal citations; how to use LexisNexis; the 1976 Copyright Act; copyright as applied to music, computers broadcasting and education; fair use; Napster, Grokster, and Peer-to-Peer file-sharing; Library Access to Music Project; The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act; DVDs and encryption; software licensing; the GNU General Public License and free software.

The Yale Law School podcasts feature “members of the Law School’s renowned faculty and distinguished legal experts and scholars from around the world sharing their views on philosophical and practical issues related to law and justice”. All of the recordings are free, and no matter where your interests lie as it relates to the law, you’ll find something to cater to that in iTunes U.