Entertainment Law

This course provides an overview of the interrelationship between the law, ethics and business of the entertainment industries focusing on the scope of rights that attach to entertainment enterprise, and the variety of legal, ethical and developmental issues raised in various entertainment business contexts including television, cable, live theatre, motion pictures, literary and music publishing, and music recording. The course focuses on the entertainment industry power structures; methods of compensation and credit allocation; creative control; methods by which rights in a creative product may be transferred; grant of rights and representations; and warranties and indemnities relating to risks particularly characteristic of the entertainment industries.