Entertainment and New Media

Technology has revolutionized the creation, distribution, and consumption of digital content. The laws around music, TV and film, sports, social media, and video games are evolving at an incredible rate. And Berkeley Law has claimed a leadership role in both research and education within these areas. Our faculty are turning out leading research on mediarelated IP protection, Internet Service Provider liability, network neutrality, and social media regulation. Our students can choose from two dozen innovative courses focused on social media, music law, video game law, Hollywood contracts, and sports law contracts. And with access to our practitioner-lecturers, students are exposed to the latest development within this rapidly-changing area of law.

“At a time of great and tumultuous change in the media and entertainment world, lawyers are at the heart of rethinking how to restructure the entertainment business to support the creators of content so the audience gets the stories they want and the business is sustainable. Berkeley Law creates innovative thinkers, so its graduates are and can be leaders in the conversations which create these new structures.”

-Linda Lichter Founding Member and Partner, Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark

Advanced Samuelson Clinic & Seminar Art and Cultural Property Law Copyright, Competition, and Technology Copyright Law Drafting and Negotiating Sports Law Contracts Entertainment Law in the TV Industry First Amendment Gaming Law: Gambling, Fantasy Sports, Online Wagers Intellectual Property Law IP in the Music Industry Law and Technology Writing Workshop Media Law and the First Amendment Music Law Practice Negotiating Hollywood Contracts Regulated Digital Industries: Telecommunications Law & Policy for a Modern Era Representing Professional Athletes Samuelson Clinic & Seminar Social Justice Issues in Entertainment and Media Law Social Media Law Sports Law

Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law

Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research

Berkeley Law’s Annual Sports & Entertainment Conference has become one of the Bay Area’s most recognized student-run sports and entertainment events of the year. The conference’s are hosted by the Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law and Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. This marquee event brings together leading executives, management professionals, attorneys, athletes, talent, and students to Berkeley Law for the opportunity to discuss the leading topics in sports, entertainment, law, business, and culture. Recent and upcoming conference included: