| author | title | subtitle | file |
|---|---|---|---|
Richard Dooling |
Entertainment Law |
Lawyers For The Talent |
readme.md |
END OF LIFE
I taught Entertainment Law as an adjunct professor for years, but now these files are four years out of date, at least.
This is a public repository of the files I used to teach Entertainment Law. Since it's open to all, please read the following:
I am an author and sometimes a screenwriter. I'm also used to be a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer, and the text you find here is not legal advice.
To paraphrase Hunter Thompson:
The entertainment industry is a cruel and shallow money trench … a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.
It's no place to be guessing about your legal rights. If you need legal advice, please get a lawyer.
These materials are published under an MIT license.
Whenever possible, I link to free content, including Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Scholar, the SCOTUS blog, and other notable resources that are not behind paywalls. For the convenience of law students with Westlaw accounts, I often provide links to cases on Westlaw, but whenever possible I also provide a link to the same case on Google Scholar, or to the opinion itself as published by the court.
You don't need to know Markdown or computer programming to use or view these files. Public repositories (like this one) can be browsed and the files can be downloaded by anyone. If you are a student looking to download or view the Entertainment Law files, just find the files you want and download them.
Each folder contains three files, all named after the folder:
- one Markdown file (.md)
- one Word file (.docx)
- one PDF file (.pdf)
All files contain the same content, just in different formats. For example, the Introduction folder contains three files:
- Introduction.md
- Introduction.docx
- Introduction.pdf
If you click on the Markdown file (Introduction.md) you can view it as you would a webpage.
If you click on the Introduction.docx or Introduction. pdf, you can't view the files, but you can download them by clicking the "Download" button.
If you would like to download all of the files in this repository, look for the two buttons at the bottom of the right sidebar: "Clone in Desktop" and "Download Zip".
If you click on the "Download Zip" button, you will download a zip file containing all the files in this repository. Probably not so bad at first, but over the course of the semester more files will be added. You'll have a version problem, which is why Git and GitHub were invented.
Consider investing a little time and learning how to "clone" the entire repository in your desktop. If you click on "Clone in Desktop" you will download the GitHub program, and you will be asked to create a free GitHub account. Using a simple GitHub app you will be able to quickly fetch the latest versions of these files to your computer using a simple free application available at GitHub.
If you spot a typo or formatting glitch please submit an issue..
On the Entertainment Law repository page, on the right, click on the "Issues" link and describe the problem. If need be, copy in text illustrating the problem.
Issues are easy to submit, and you'll be making the text better for those who come after you.
Thank you,
Richard Dooling
@RichardDooling