Media and Entertainment Law

3 Credit Hours

This Seminar is designed to acquaint the student with a number of the substantive areas of law applicable to the practice in the area generally identified as "Media and Entertainment Law." The course will involve substantive coverage of the following areas: copyright (including the concepts of parody and fair use), trademark, rights of publicity and privacy, defamation, anti-SLAPP legislation, reporters' rights (including the topics of access to courts, Freedom of Information, and shield laws), advertising, protection of ideas by contract and the law of the Internet.