Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries, 5th Edition (Law & Business of the Entertainment Industries) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Donald E. Biederman, Edward P. Pierson, Martin E. Silfen, Janna Glasser, Charles J. Biederman, Kenneth J. Abdo, Scott D. Sanders
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
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Edition: 5
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Pages: 1044
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.1 x 2.2
ISBN: 0275992055
Dewey Decimal Number: 344.73099
EAN: 9780275992057
ASIN: 0275992055
Publication Date: November 30, 2006
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Condition: Some highlighting on around 50 pages, some spine damage that affects first few pages.
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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 edition 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.
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 Somewhat Helpful April 16, 2008
I would basically have to agree with Jen's review about this book. There are too many cases, the book is huge and the font is small...especially in the notes sections. The inclusion of various types of contracts has its plusses and minuses. I feel as if the contracts are stuck in the book in their entirety, but they're not necessarily explained. Thus, even if you're in law school, you're reading the contracts, not understanding the language and then not getting an explanation of the contracts. It's almost the same as reading the contracts as a complete layperson. The worst part is that there are tons of these contracts. Someone who taught this course as an adjunct at my law school assigned pretty much all the contracts in the book to read.
Obviously, they are not captivating reading, so if you're in this position you can get stuck reading boring contracts that you don't understand and a professor who assigns all these contracts to read but doesn't explain them well enough--either because he's a lawyer in this field and it makes way more sense to him than to you and/or because he's a practicing attorney rather than a real law professor and, thus, doesn't really know how to teach. I think both applied in my situation, and, unfortunately, people teaching entertainment law oftentimes will be practicing attorneys and/or completely over your head with knowledge.
I don't feel as if this book is well-written, and sometimes the contracts aren't the only things that don't make sense or aren't explained well enough. Terms are thrown out or descriptions/explanations of the industry are given sometimes in ways that don't help someone who knows nothing about it...or at least doesn't know about the areas being covered by a particular chapter. I'm not just talking about the legal aspects; I am also referring to the actual industry itself and the way things work in it. That makes this book much worse than the average legal casebook. And with the size of this book--and, as a result, the amount of material covered in it--a lot of stuff that doesn't always make sense is thrown at you, and that's hard to deal with, even for a law student. And with other books I've seen and/or read on the market that explain the entertainment industry, this book could easily be less in-depth/complicated and shorter, even including the same amount of cases.
In other words, this book is just not brought down to a dummy's level enough, or even enough to be taught in law school. And it takes what should be an interesting subject and makes it completely devoid of intrigue. For people who are interested in this book outside of school reading and want to know more about the intersection of business, entertainment and/or law, this is not the book to read or refer to. What I did like about this book is when I could understand it, it presented a lot of interesting cases and information about the industry, even in its complicated contracts. Still, professors and teachers, please find a better textbook if you're using this to teach...or arrange your class lectures in a way that breaks the book down in English!
 Has room for improvement... December 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
1. There are too many cases to illustrate the same point. For example, the Remedies section does not nearly need to be as long as it is. The bankruptcy section would be just as adequate and informative with 2-3 cases and more commentary. The agency rules chapter and the chapter on literary publishing also have this same problem: it is repetitive and there are too many cases with the same point. Some of the cases would have been been just as effective as a note case.
2. The size of the font for the note cases are too small and sometimes, an eye strain to read. I understand that there is a concern for the length of the book, but with the first suggestion and using thinner pages may fix this. (this book uses paper that is considerably thicker than your average law book). Also, sometimes, with the center justification alignment for the note cases, it squeezes the sentences together, it's almost impossible to read. (see page 199, note 3, the third line --the entire line is practically one word).
3. On the plus side, I do like how the book goes through entertainment agreements. For example, the detailed discussions on music publishing agreements with comments after each provision were very helpful.
 Table of Contents: August 12, 2007
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Global Overview1
Standards Governing Preliminary Injunctions, Motions for Summary Judgment, and Attachments6
Ch. 1Representing Talent13
Ch. 2Talent Contracts67
Ch. 3Acquisition of Rights: Rights of Personality and Identity157
Ch. 4Acquisition of Rights: Ideas and Other Property281
Ch. 5Contract Performance, Exploitation Obligations, and Limitations on Exploitation353
Ch. 6Remedies431
Ch. 7Literary Publishing525
Ch. 8Music Publishing549
Ch. 9Sound Recordings581
Ch. 10Films625
Ch. 11Television657
Ch. 12The Internet, Multimedia, and Emerging Technologies689
Ch. 13Theatre773
Table of Cases803
Index831
Excellent May 20, 2006
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
A book that has it's groundings firmly set into the the real world, dealing with real problems and real people, providing real life examples and presenting all the legal aspects of the entertaintment business. In this forth edition things have been turned up a notch and the information just got a little hotter, with even more revealing information and an interesting online section. As good as this book is there is something on the market that surpasses it, the excellent "How To Make A Furtune In The Music Industry By Doing It Yourself: Your Personal Step-By-Step Guide To Having A Successful Career In The Music Business. ... To Sell Music, Book Shows And Get Noticed!" by author Ty Cohen, a book that contains the latest and best information concerning the world of music producingA book that has it's groundings firmly set into the real world, dealing with real problems and real people, providing real life examples and presenting all the legal aspects of the entertainment business. In this forth edition things have been turned up a notch and the information just got a little hotter, with even more revealing information and an interesting online section. As good as this book is there is something on the market that surpasses it, the excellent "How To Make A Fortune In The Music Industry By Doing It Yourself: Your Personal Step-By-Step Guide To Having A Successful Career In The Music Business. ... To Sell Music, Book Shows And Get Noticed!" by author Ty Cohen, a book that contains the latest and best information concerning the world of music producing.
A helpful examination of the entertainment business May 5, 1999
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
As an attorney teaching an entertainment law course to undergraduates at the University of Notre Dame, I've found this text book to be very useful. Not only does it address and examine legal issues that face entertainment industry persons, it examines *how* the entertainment industries actually work. The vast majority of my students have found this book to be useful and worthwhile.
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