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B590 Entertainment Law

Description Overview: Entertainment law has been a respected area of legal practice for decades dealing with representation of both creative "talent" and entertainment business interests. Entertainment law has most notably come to the forefront of popular culture in the form of recent battles over music and video file sharing and questions about the alleged monopolistic practices of the increasingly small number of media conglomerates. This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop both a practical understanding of representing creative and business interests in the fields of music, publishing and film & television and a theoretical understanding of the broader intellectual property and constitutional issues at stake with regard to control of creative content. Entertainment law largely deals with the music, publishing and film & television industries, and this course will focus specifically on these three areas. Either of the courses Survey of Intellectual Property Law or Copyright Law are recommended to be taken either prior to or concurrently with Entertainment Law (but are not required). The subject matter of Entertainment Law, though drawing on copyright law to some extent, does not significantly overlap with any other course to an extent that would preempt students from taking both.

Faculty R. Meitus