Despite the role of intellectual property as the catalyst that transforms creative activity into creative industry, studies report that creative arts students are not adequately exposed to intellectual property law during their undergraduate studies. The rapid shift of creative industry from conventional to digital economy, requires evaluation of intellectual property course offerings for undergraduate creative arts students. Lack of in-depth knowledge and understanding in applying intellectual property law in creative industry has hindered the protection and economic exploitation of their creative works at the earliest possible stage of their creations. This paper aims to design a course syllabus for intellectual property law and creative industry that prepares and empowers Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) creative arts undergraduates' participation in creative industry. This paper compared the course syllabuses of universities that offer intellectual property law courses specially designed by universities and learning centre for the students, authors, artists, and designers who are involved in creative industry. The comparison includes the course objectives, course learning outcomes, course description, syllabus content, teaching methodology, and course assessment. The comparative study findings contribute towards designing intellectual property law and creative industry course syllabus for creative arts undergraduates of UiTM and also beneficial to other universities.

The primary goals of copyright collective management organisations (CMO) are to preserve authors' rights, ensure that they are compensated, and facilitate the lawful and seamless distribution of music to users and the general public. The new generation of authors or composers may find it troublesome to become a part of or members of CMOs when  information is not  easily accessible. However, as for the CMOs, to exercise transparency, it is essential to have access to information on issues impacting collective management organisations, especially for the general public and mainly for their members. In light of copyright legislation, this paper will address Malaysia's and Australia's approaches to accessing information about their collective management organisations, mainly through their official websites. This paper employs doctrinal analysis using secondary data from academic journals, books, and online databases. The findings will respond to the legal framework for the copyright collective management organisations, and the findings will also contribute to the body of knowledge and body of literature in this area.

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