LAW 856: Law of Entertainment Industries
This course will examine the legal doctrines and statutes that provide the foundation and legal framework for the recording, music publishing, motion picture, television, theatre, and literary publishing industries in the United States and the economic business context in which those doctrines are applied. The examination will include legal issues common to many transactions in the entertainment industries, including the negotiation and enforcement of personal service contracts, employment of talent agents and managers, creation and protection of artistic property, protection and exploitation of celebrity names, images, and other personality rights and the transfer of rights in artistic properties. The course will consider these and other issues in the context of significant contractual transactions in each of the entertainment industries, with emphasis upon the legal issues arising in each transaction. Pre-or co-requisite: Copyright Law or IP Survey. [3]
