In response to the increasing convergence of technologies in the entertainment industries, this thoroughly updated and revised fifth edition makes the casebook more timeless. Providing contract templates covering book publishing, recording contracts, actor agreements, video game agreements, and internet agreements, among others, this new edition is more useful and illustrative of the business of entertainment for lawyers, students, and industry professionals than its competition. Introductions, notes, and cases are fully updated to take into account recent changes in the industry. This classic casebook is essential to students at law schools throughout the country and to industry professionals trying to keep up with this ever-changing field of law.
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Providing contract templates covering book publishing, recording contracts, actor agreements, video game agreements, and internet agreements, among others, this new edition is more useful and illustrative of the business of entertainment for lawyers, students, and industry professionals than its competition.
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Acknowledgments
Dedication to Don Biederman
Don Biederman Remembered and Missed
Introduction: An Overview
Part One
Chapter 1 Representing Talent
Chapter 2 Talent Contracts
Chapter 3 Entertainment Rights: Rights of Publicity, Property, and Ideas
Chapter 4 Contract Performance and Exploitation Obligations
Chapter 5 Remedies
Chapter 6 Literary Publishing
Chapter 7 Music Publishing
Chapter 8 Sound Recordings
Chapter 9 Film
Chapter 10 Television
Chapter 11 The Internet and the Digital World
Table of Cases
Index
About the Authors
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Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries is one of the few texts that thoroughly explores both aspects of the various entertainment industries. Now in its fifth edition, Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries is authored by a panel of experts who are also among the top lawyers in the field. This lends a certain gravitas both to the theoretical, as well as to the practical, aspects of the work. This classic tome sets out and examines the various businesses that comprise the entertainment industry in an accessible, interesting, and thoroughly informative manner….[t]he text generously uses entertainment industry cases and historical examples in order to explain many of the basic principles of these legal specialties. The pleasing result is both a casebook filled with several of the most important decisions affecting the entertainment business….In all, this fully updated fifth edition….[m]ay well be the most comprehensive work on the subject available.
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Updates and revises the classic casebook for Entertainment Law
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780275992057
Publisert
2006-11-01
Utgave
5. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Praeger Publishers Inc
Vekt
2013 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
G, P, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
1046