International and Comparative Media Law (3 units)
Global considerations increasingly affect and govern the news and entertainment media, especially in connection with Internet communication.
This course will survey legal issues that lawyers are likely to confront in any broad-based media law practice, including: cross-border approaches to content regulation, especially the European Convention on Human Rights, the American Convention Human Rights, and other international instruments; regulatory systems applicable to the international media business, such as the Television Without Frontiers and Database Protection Directives of the European Community; the emerging conflict surrounding assertions of jurisdiction over international media interests; protection of journalistic sources and other confidential information; considerations that may apply in attempting to enforce foreign judgments against the media; and the effect of different approaches to copyright protection.
Copyright Law | Entertainment Law | Financing & Distributing Independent Films Law |
Information Privacy Law | International and Comparative Media Law | Internet & E-Commerce Law Mass Media Law | Motion Picture Production Law | Music Publishing Industry Law |
Navigating Recording Artists Through The Entertainment Industry | Television Production Law | Theater Law | Video Game Law