Thursday, February 27, 2014

Putting a "Spotlight" on Entertainment Law For This Year's Oscars - Library Display

This Sunday, March 2, the 86th annual Academy Awards will be held in Beverly Hills.  The star-studded event honors the accomplishments of many talented professionals in the motion picture and entertainment industry.

To coincide with this event, the Law Library is featuring an Oscars display which highlights many of the Law Library's resources that discuss law and motion pictures, representation of legal themes in film, as well as entertainment law, generally.

Included in the display are the following titles:
Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts / edited by John Denvir
The Celluloid Courtroom: A History of Legal Cinema / by Ross D. Levi
Piracy in the Motion Picture Industry / by Kerry Segrave
The Independent Filmmaker’s Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films / by Jon M. Garon
Changing Images of Law in Film & Television Crime Stories / by Timothy O. Lenz
Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies / by Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow
Truth and Lives on Film: The Legal Problems of Depicting Real Persons and Events in a Fictional Medium / by John T. Aquino
The Biz: The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry / by Schuyler M. Moore
How to Build and Manage an Entertainment Law Practice / by Gary Greenberg
Law on the Screen / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
Entertainment Law: Legal Concepts and Business Practices / by Thomas D. Selz et al.

The display also highlights some of the Law Library's electronic resources, including treatises available via WestlawNext and Lexis Advance. Also, copies of the following articles, available via HeinOnline, are included in the display:

Rebecca Shaw, Show Me the Money: Movie Quotes as Intellectual Property, 4 Intell. Prop. Brief 36 (2012-2013)

Richard W. Rappaport, et al., Inside Hollywood: The Reel Path to Success in the Motion Picture Industry, 28 Ent. & Sports Law. 3 (2010-2011)

Richard Brust, The 25 Greatest Legal Movies, 94 A.B.A. J. 38 (2008)

No comments:

Post a Comment