| author | title | subtitle | file |
|---|---|---|---|
Richard Dooling |
Law & Business For Creative Artists |
The ArtBizLaw Course |
readme.md |
These materials are published under an MIT license.
I teach Entertainment Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. I also teach a Special Topics course for graduate and undergraduate students called "Law & Business For Creative Artists," or Art Biz Law for short.
- My University of Nebraska College of Law page.
- My Wikipedia page.
- My IMDB page.
- One sorely neglected blog.
- Twitter @RichardDooling.
This is a public repository of the files I use to teach Law & Business for Creative Artists course. Since it's open to all, please read the following:
I am an author and sometimes a screenwriter. I'm also a lawyer, and I teach Entertainment Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, 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, GET A LAWYER!
These materials are published under an MIT license.
If all goes well, the files in this GitHub repository will grow into an open source textbook. I hope to entice collaborators: students, former students, entertainment lawyers, artists, and other professors, who may find these materials useful and help me improve them. (At the moment, I am especially interested in a collaborator or contributor with experience working in the music industry.)
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.
Don't be intimidated by the links to these court opinions. But do read the summaries contained in the files. In class, I'll explain them in plain English. The excerpts from the full court opinions are there for the curious.
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 just find the files you need 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 if you click on the button that says "Raw." (Clicking on "View Raw" might give an error.)
If you spot a typo or formatting glitch please submit an issue..
On the ArtBizLaw 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
University of Nebraska College of Law