Product Description

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 addition 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #806216 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .4 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1022 pages

Review

""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." -

About the Author
DON BIEDERMAN is former Professor of Law and Director, National Institute of Entertainment & Media Law Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles.