ENTERTAINMENT AND NEW MEDIA

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 media-related IP protection, Internet Service Provider liability, network neutrality, and social media regulation.

Our students can choose from a 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 rapidlychanging area of law.

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“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, Lecturer and Founding Member and Partner, Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark

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CURRICULUM

Advertising, Branding, and the First Amendment

Art and Cultural Property Law

Copyright, Competition, and Technology

Entertainment Law in the TV IndustryIP in the Music IndustryMedia Law and the First AmendmentNegotiating Hollywood ContractsRepresenting Professional Athletes

Social Justice Issues in Entertainment and Media Law

Social Media LawTopics in Sports LawVideo Game Law

FACULTY CO-DIRECTORS

Peter S. Menell

Koret Professor of Law

Pamela Samuelson

Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information

Catherine Fisk

Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law

Sonia Katyal

Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research

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EVENTS

Annual Sports and Entertainment Law ConferenceNovember 5-6, 2020

Berkeley Law’s Annual Sports and Entertainment Conference has become one of the Bay Area’s most recognized student-run sports and entertainment events of the year. Industry elites come together to explore, unpack, and debate the many developments within two dynamic fields. 2020 Speakers included: Jeffrey Harleston (Universal Music Group), Leigh Steinberg (Steinberg Sports and Entertainment), Dr. Damion Thomas (Smithsonian NMAAHC), Hannah Gordon (San Francisco 49ers), D’Lonra Ellis (Oakland Athletics).

LECTURER SPOTLIGHT: LINDA LICHTER

Linda Lichter is a lecturer at Berkeley Law, where she received her J.D. Linda has been teaching a class on negotiating contracts for talent in the entertainment business at the Law School since 2016.

Linda is one of the first woman lawyers to be named partner in an entertainment law firm and one of the first lawyers to work in the independent film world. Linda perennially appears on Hollywood Reporter’s “100 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood” and has been named one of Variety’s top 500 most powerful people in the media business.

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