Into the breach... (The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer)

Into the breach...

I have no choice - I must take the copyright exam today.

It's funny, I felt almost prepared to take it last week. I held off a few more days, and now I feel like I don't know anything.

Which isn't true: I know a lot about copyright. The question is whether I know the copyright that will be on the test. Um, perhaps not...

Edit: Well, that's done. I can't really talk about it because it's a takehome, and other people haven't done it yet. But suffice it to say, I knew stuff. Potentially even the right stuff, though we'll see...

Edit 5/6: I think I feel at odds with the exam because I feel like there are so many unanswered questions with regard to the material generally. Some of this might be due to the class itself - it was really short. It was only three units, instead of the usual four, which meant there was less class time (2 x 1.5 hours per week, rather than 2 x 2 hours). It just didn't really allow for any juicy policy discussions to develop, and we had move really quickly to even cover the basics about copyright law topically. As it was we still didn't quite get to a lot of good and complicated stuff, like state preemption.

Fortunately, this is a passion of mine so I'll keep learning copyright law one way or another. It's just that, even if I get a kick-ass grade, my transcript (as usual) won't be what expresses the expertise I may actually happen to have in it.

Posted on May 5, 2005 4:06 AM | Permalink