AE 670 - Entertainment Law

Credits: 3
This course will focus on five major areas of entertainment litigation: protection of ideas through property, tort and contract theories; aspects of defamation directly related to literary and artistic works; right of privacy issues; developing legal theories in protecting publicity values; and First Amendment considerations. Matters that will be considered include: 1) the scope of authors’ moral rights in American law; 2) the common law of intellectual property and the protection of ideas; 3) contract rights to compensation for an idea; 4) an examination of the law of libel as applied to works of fiction; 5) constitutional problems with protecting the right of privacy; and 6) property rights in names, likenesses and personal histories. No more than 6 credits may be taken from AE 670-675.

Prerequisite(s): ICP 670.