This course offers a detailed look at how the law affects the development, financing, and distribution of motion pictures and television programs. Key emphasis will be placed on how users in the film and television industry negotiate, draft, and interpret agreements.  Consideration will also be given to the rights that are accrued in the different and how they they affect these agreements. Students will be required to have a hands-on experience in drafting legal documents and effective writing skills, from the inception of an original idea through distribution via new media technology. 

The course coverage will include-a review of copyright and personal rights and an analysis of the contracts necessary for the protection and acquisition of those rights; analysis of employment contracts for the different media personell and finally its distribution. In addition, the students will look at the role of the different stakeholders in the film and TV industry such as unionisable members, agents, managers etc. Students shall also be exposed to regulatory framework, including case studies, in an aim to have practical exposure in this course.