Subjects:

Media and Entertainment Law

Contents:

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

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.