ENTERTAINMENT LAW IN GLOBAL PRACTICE
(LAWF-4130) - 2 UNITS

From Hollywood to Seoul, Mumbai, London, Rome, and beyond, entertainment has become a truly global business. Content now travels instantly across borders, platforms, and cultures, creating unprecedented opportunities and complex legal challenges. Behind every successful film, television series, streaming project or digital media venture stands a team of lawyers helping turn creative ideas into global commercial successes.

Entertainment Law in Global Practice takes students inside the international entertainment industry, exploring how lawyers structure deals, protect intellectual property, navigate cross-border transactions, manage risk, and support the development, financing, production, and worldwide distribution of content.

Combining legal analysis with industry practice, the course offers a practical, business-oriented perspective on entertainment law, with a particular focus on contracts, intellectual property, talent relationships, financing, co-productions, branding, and distribution in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.



Live the Role of Entertainment Counsel

At the heart of the course is a semester-long simulation in which students serve as legal counsel to a fictional international production company developing a major audiovisual project.

As the project progresses from acquisition to global exploitation, students will advise on the real-world issues entertainment lawyers confront every day: rights acquisition, chain of title, talent deals, trademarks, financing, strategic partnerships, music clearance, distribution agreements, and long-term exploitation strategies.

Rather than studying entertainment law topic by topic, students will experience how legal and business decisions shape a project's success from concept to screen. The result is an engaging, hands-on introduction to the lawyer's role at the center of the global creative economy.

Pass/Fail:
No

Prerequisites:
Entertainment Law (LAWF-4004)  (can be taken concurrently)