RIM 3700 - Entertainment Intellectual Property I

3 credit hours

Prerequisite: RI majors - admission to candidacy; others RIM 3600. Introduction to the law of copyright, as well as the basic law of contracts, within a lecture setting combined with the interactivity of student in-class argument of appellate opinions rendered in both the areas of U.S. Copyright law and Contract law. Focuses solely on high-level intellectual property disputes related to the entertainment industry, whether regarding argument as to the rightful copyright ownership of parties within the entertainment industry, or as to a contract dispute, e.g. the breach of an entertainment agreement involving artistic content such as a recording or publishing agreement.

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