The course aims to provide students with a basic and accessible knowledge concerning the most relevant legislation that revolves around the world of music and of visual and performing arts. Particular attention will be paid to new technologies and their repercussions on artists’rights. The aim of the lessons is to provide useful skills and abilities to understand and evaluate the legal profile, especially referring to the Private Law, of the artistic careers that the students will intend to make in the future. On a methodological point of view, the course is aimed at developing the abilities of the students: - to orient themselves in the system of sources of the Entertainment Law, through in-class activities, exercises, the presence and debate of /with selected organizations and artists; - to interpret rules, principles and values characterizing the entertainment world; - and finally to solve concrete problems through the application of the main civil categories.
teacher profile teaching materials
- The subjects operating in the entertainment world.
- The object of protection and the legal notion of art.
- Artists and labor law.
- The organization of the entertainment market and economic incentives for the sector.
- Contracts in the cinema sector.
- Contracts for theater artists.
- The contracts of the recording industry.
- The protection of copyright.
- Copyright and protection of artists in the area of new technologies.
Programme
- The sources and principles of entertainment law.- The subjects operating in the entertainment world.
- The object of protection and the legal notion of art.
- Artists and labor law.
- The organization of the entertainment market and economic incentives for the sector.
- Contracts in the cinema sector.
- Contracts for theater artists.
- The contracts of the recording industry.
- The protection of copyright.
- Copyright and protection of artists in the area of new technologies.
Core Documentation
F. DELL'AVERSANA (a cura di), Manuale di diritto delle arti e dello spettacolo, Aracne, Roma, 2015 (disponibile anche in e-book), limitatamente ai seguenti Capitoli: I, II, III, IV, V, IX, X, XIII, XVI.Reference Bibliography
Ask the Professor for further sectorial lectures.Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons. Cases analysis.Attendance
Attending lessons is not mandatory, but it is strongly suggested.Type of evaluation
The exam consists of a final oral test aimed at verifying the knowledge of the basic legal concepts of private law for the music and the entertainment and the familiarity with the fundamentals of the methodology of legal interpretation, the capacity of applying sectorial laws in the concrete cases, as well as the mastery of technical language.