Intellectual Property Law for Creative Entrepreneurs Certificate

This course is offered in partnership with OCAD University School of Continuing Studies.   

In today's innovation economy, intellectual property literacy is essential knowledge for artists and designers to understand their legal rights. Both the Federal Government's National IP Strategy and the Ontario IP Plan have identified the need for more IP education across the post-secondary system. The certificate explores copyright law, industrial design law, graphic design law, trademarks, IP law strategy, and Indigenous IP law. This certificate fills a gap in IP education and will be uniquely positioned to offer content tailored specifically to Ontario's creative entrepreneurs. This certificate is not for university degree credit. It was?developed in partnership with the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor and eCampus Ontario. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

1. Instructors assess the student's work and issue a grade of pass or fail. Students must receive a passing grade in the course for the course to qualify for the certificate.
2. Students must complete four (4) distinct qualifying courses within three (3) years.
3. Successfully completed courses can be applied towards one (1) certificate only. 
4. When students have completed all certificate requirements within the prescribed time limit, they will be able to download a printable PDF file of their certificate from OCAD U.