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Apr 17, 2022
This course provided the background knowledge I needed on the Internet Giants and how they came to be so. Thank you Randy and all the people who worked behind the scenes to deliver this to us.
DC
Feb 4, 2017
It was really really cool, I learnt a lot, the readings were always interesting, the course was well-structured, super understandable and easy to follow. I would recommend it wholeheartedly!
By Yolanda S D
•Jun 16, 2018
The concept of this course is good, but often times I find myself not following the material because the lecturer keeps going off topic. It would be better if he can explain something without interrupting it with gimmick details. Overall this course has expanded my knowledge.
By Paolo V
•Apr 24, 2018
Not a lawyer but after a while I sort of grew an appetite for the topics presented in this course. I probably missed a lot of the legal technicalities - that's a given. But I definitevely learned a lot as well from a obviously in-love-with-the-law teacher.
By Ioana D
•Jun 10, 2019
Great course in that it explains the legal framework within which these media giants were created. One drawback is that it predominantly focuses on US and I think now the big fights for privacy against these companies will happen in Europe.
By Mr. M L
•Aug 28, 2020
Excellent coverage of law, economics, and technological concepts, and application of a combination of them in the current context of the "Internet Century". Should consider updating outcomes of cases, and new technological market players.
By Mohamad S A
•Sep 22, 2015
Fantastic Professor who is witty and really into the topics! A little more variety in the structure of the videos (not always him standing in front of the screen), but some little films, guests and so would have made 5/5 stars.
By Ricardo G
•Jun 13, 2023
Very interesting course! It is really important to look back and see how internet giants played their game and antitrust agencies tried to avoid monopoly or misuse of a dominant power by these giants.
By Matthijs J P C B
•Sep 27, 2016
Great course, but really dense so better be ready to put in the work. Might be a bit heavy on the law side for IT/economics professionals, but the professor is surely a fellow geek.
By Michal S
•Mar 22, 2016
It was a little different than I expected (more litigations and law in general), but A LOT of new information nevertheless.
By Polina A
•Mar 30, 2018
Too difficult for not native speakers to understand the topic but this course brings a lot if information.
By Ruslan T
•Jul 21, 2020
The course is very interesting, but the 70-question test in Course review (week 9) is too much ...
By Joy S
•May 15, 2019
Really good information on the whole internet thing. Covers all aspects very thoroughtly
By Дмитрий О
•Jun 29, 2020
Very interesting course, but it's 5 years old and many links aren't working any more.
By Felicia I
•Jul 8, 2019
Very informational, but found the speed of the lessons could have been faster.
By Eugène P P N M
•Mar 24, 2021
Merci au Professeur Randal C. PICKER, à l'Université de Chicago et à Coursera
By Twinkle M
•Oct 20, 2020
Becomes very technical in the middle weeks
By Abraham M
•May 8, 2017
Great course! Very comprehensive
By Zhao y
•Jun 19, 2017
very informative and passionate
By Oliver H
•Aug 14, 2016
Loving it.
By Arya M
•Jun 18, 2023
good
By Masoud A
•Jun 17, 2021
This course felt like a long journey, thankfully, it was presented in short and brief segments thus allowing for some breather from time to time. This was a huge work and professor Randal must have a challenging task in putting all this work together. The downside of the course is the exaggerated use of annoying sounds such as the long stretch of AAAAAAs and MMMMs between the sentences made by the professor which at times disrupted the good contents of the segment. It is a commonly known principle when delivering in public speaking and presentations to avoid the excessive use of such gestures as AMMMMMMS and the likes. At times I had to skip the lecture because of that.
By Hellen B
•Apr 8, 2019
It's a kind of 3.5 star review. The course material is interesting and I learned masses, but oh did I get heartily bored of the delivery method. I am sure Professor Picker is an erudite and charming man, however being presented by hour after hour of rambling video became pretty cheerless - I ended up turning the volume off and trying to make sense of the text script. It would have been great if it could have been broken up by some of his excellent writings, blog posts and other formats like interviews etc.
Also - putting multiple complex reading lists in (some of the documents were 100s of pages long) and adding '10 minutes' as the study time is a little disingenuous.
By K P
•Aug 17, 2020
Great content, good as an overview for those wanting to understand US copyright and the history of some of the big names, Google, Amazon etc. Now very out of date- with many of the key cases no longer pending but having been decided.
By Jay K
•Mar 13, 2023
Interestingly, this course came up in a marketing email, but then on the first course page it tells you it is from 2015 and to go take a newer course... :)
By 姚翔
•Jan 26, 2016
考试题目太多了。。。内容也很枯燥。
By Pam A K
•Oct 20, 2020
This class was horrible. Randy Picker is an atrocious orator. Whatever translating software was picking up his speech was the worst. After the first week, I couldn't even bear to listening to him anymore so I tried reading the text myself. It is so bad that it literally completely deforms the content of what is being taught. I started skipping to the tests just to get it over with. This content is over five years old. That technology changes daily - and so do laws and court proceedings - this content is severely outdated. Horrible. I'll never take another class if it involves such poor translation, speaker, or course content. I also paid for a certificate for this class. Where is it?