Re: Exam hypotheticals ...

David Post's query about exam hypotheticals is hardly "hypothetical" as my own copyright class at Georgetown (fall 1996) used that very format!

Specifically, John Podesta, who taught copyright for one semester before moving on to the White House, handed out, several weeks prior to the final, a then-recent Washington Post article which discussed an artistic work -- a sculpture made of jello -- which he used as a springboard for about half of the final exam itself.

We students had fun discussing this article in group study sessions, and trying to come up with all possible copyright implications, no matter how far- fetched. Some potential topics which we (i.e., my study group) identified showed up on the final, although, of course, Mr. Podesta surprised us with yet other topics.

In conclusion, I highly recommend this approach, and only wish that more of my professors at Georgetown had used this. I doubt that one would want to "re- use" the hypothetical from year to year; there are always interesting items in the news every month, so there is no difficulty in finding something new each year.

Alan Kabat
Washington, D.C.
<alankabat[_at_]aol.com> Received on Sat Jan 09 1999 - 00:49:21 GMT