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
Ask the Professor for English lectures.Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons (80%). Cases analysis and and meetings with industry figures (20%).Attendance
Not compulsoryType 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. The formulation of the final judgment takes place according to the following evaluation criteria: - Failure to pass the exam: the candidate does not demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the basic concepts. - From 18 to 21 (Sufficient level): the candidate demonstrates sufficient knowledge of the basic concepts by formalizing them in simplified language. - From 22 to 24 (Discrete level): the candidate demonstrates a good knowledge of the basic concepts by formalizing them correctly. - From 25 to 26 (Good level): the candidate demonstrates a very good knowledge of the basic concepts by formalizing them correctly and consciously. - From 27 to 29 (Very good level): the candidate demonstrates a deep knowledge of basic concepts by formalizing them in a fluid way and linking them autonomously also in the evaluation of concrete cases. - From 30 to 30 laude (Excellent level): the candidate demonstrates a very deep knowledge of the basic concepts formalizing them with language properties and linking them autonomously and critically also in the evaluation of concrete cases.