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- Music law is used to describe the legal aspects of the music industry and, to an extent, legal aspects in other sectors of the entertainment industry. The music industry includes record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the live events sector and of course performers and artists. The entertainment sector includes film, television, dance, theatre and video games. The terms "music law" and "entertainment law", along with "business affairs", are used by the music and entertainment industries themselves and should not be thought of as academic definitions. Indeed, music law covers a range of traditional legal subjects including intellectual property law, competition law, bankruptcy law, contract law, defamation and, for the live events industry, immigration law, health and safety law, and licensing. Within the music and entertainment industries there are lawyers who specialize in one or more areas of music and entertainment law. Most practicing lawyers will have a knowledge of appropriate contract law and intellectual property law within the jurisdiction they practice in, and, where appropriate, at least a working knowledge of US and UK contract law and US and European intellectual property law, as the recording industry in particular is US-centric. Both the recorded music sector and music publishing sector have their foundations in intellectual property law and all of the major recording labels and major music publishers and many independent record labels and publishers have will have dedicated "business and legal affairs" departments with in-house lawyers whose role is not only to secure intellectual property rights from recording artists, performers and songwriters but also to exploit those rights and protect those rights on a global basis. There are a number of specialist independent law firms around the world who advise on music and entertainment law whose clients include recording artists, performers, producers, songwriters, labels, music publishers, stage and set designers, choreographers, graphic artists, games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, distributors, collection societies and the live events sector. The digital age has been a challenge for the music industry and music lawyers. There have been a number of significant developments in music law in the last few years, particularly as the music industry faced the challenges of internet piracy, illegal downloading, peer-to-peer file swapping as well as new methods of producing music as well as new ways of distributing music. The passing of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the USA and recent European Community directives have helped develop the law although not always to universal approval and the debate on the future of the law in the digital age continues.
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- Music law is used to describe the legal aspects of the music industry and, to an extent, legal aspects in other sectors of the entertainment industry. The music industry includes record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the live events sector and of course performers and artists. The entertainment sector includes film, television, dance, theatre and video games.
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