Entertainment Law

Entertainment Law

This course focuses on legal issues that arise in the development, financing, production and distribution of a feature film or TV series. Topics include contracts, copyright, chain of title, intellectual property agreements, errors and omissions insurance (clearances and defamation), international treaty co-productions, music in films, labour and employment issues, tax considerations, completion guarantees, and distribution and sales agency agreements.

Focuses on legal and business aspects of the enteretainment industries, including motion pictures, music broadcasting, literary property, theater and new technologies. Emphasis is placed on the role of an entertainment lawyer in linking legal concerns in areas such as contracts, copyright, and business law with industry practices. Please check the most recent red book to determine if this course meets the public law, professional skills or seminar requirements.

Focuses on the entertainment aspects of mass media. Major topics include the limits of a free press and the balance between the right to publish and the right to privacy, torts, and other laws.

This course combines the academic analysis and commercial practice elements of Entertainment Law. The diverse nature of Entertainment Law allows a number of specialisations to be followed, with key underpinnings being the issues of contact and intellectual property. The course will suit graduates from a law background, or from a non-law background who have significant relevant experience.

The key course aims are to instil in students:
i) a knowledge of the operation of key fields within the entertainment industries
ii) the impact of the law upon them and the practical skills necessary to succeed in a career in entertainment law.

Course Content
Core Modules:
Dissertation (double module)
Entertainment Contracts
Intellectual Property in the Entertainment Industries
Research Theory and Practice

Option modules, a range of which are on offer, including:
Censorship in the Entertainment Industry
Dispute Resolution in the Entertainment Industry
Sports Law 1: The Ownership and Control of Sport
Sports Law 2: Playing the Game
Technology Rights and the Law
The Licensing of Public Entertainment
The Media; Ownership, Control and Regulation

Teaching and Assessment
Assessment is designed to be realistic and constructive by genuinely testing and enabling students to demonstrate acquired knowledge through written examinations and assessed coursework. The Dissertation is seen as a key component of the course, and students are given an opportunity to develop their interest in an area of entertainment law under the supervision of an expert in the field.

Associated Careers
Entertainment law graduates develop careers in a whole range of professions within the Entertainment industry. Perhaps the most popular of these are roles in: sports, music, media and communications law. The subject gives a modern edge to traditional law subjects and is well respected by employers.

Entry Requirements
You should normally possess a good Honours degree, namely First or Upper Second Class, or equivalent in an appropriate law, social science or humanities discipline. If law was not the subject of your first degree, evidence of law based modules or relevant experience should be supplied. Consideration may be given to mature applicants who lack standard qualifications but have significant professional experience in a relevant field. International students are encouraged to apply. Evidence of a good standard of English is required (minimum IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL of 600).

Additional Information
The Law School has an established research and teaching base in the area of Entertainment Law. It has offered an undergraduate option in Entertainment Law since 1991 and there is an optional module on the Legal Practice course. Two of the course team, Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn, have published widely in the area of Entertainment Law in both academic and popular journals. Published work includes Contract and Control in the Entertainment Industry: Dancing on the Edge of Heaven, Dartmouth Press, 1998, Regulating Football, Pluto Press, 2001 and Film and the Law, Cavendish, 2001.

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