Entertainment Law

Catalog description

Review of the key legal concepts and issues that bear on the content, acquisition and distribution of creative works in motion pictures, television, and new electronic media. The course focuses on the constellation of rights and legal issues that are at the heart of entertainment law practice -- among them copyright, right of publicity, use of trademarks in creative works (parody, criticism). Protection of ideas and rights in fictional characters, moral rights, etc. Discussion of some of the international legal aspects of these issues, with particular attention to issues raised by the Internet.