Workshop: Structuring Transactions - Music Law

Catalog description

Introduces students to the many legal issues associated with the music industry. Through hands-on exercises, students work through legal issues they are likely to encounter in representing musical talent, organizations developing musical talent, music marketers and production and performance organizations. By the end, students have a basic working knowledge of typical provisions of recording, music publishing, and performance agreements and an understanding of the underlying copyright, trademark, and publicity rights protection which support such agreements. Students will also have the ability to analyze and evaluate typical music industry transactions and how such transactions should be documented.