Access + Master in Audiovisual, Music and Performing Arts Law

Master of Access to the Legal Profession

Access to the Legal Profession Course – Online

1. MODULE: LEGAL PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY (MANDATORY SUBJECTS)

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LEGAL PRACTICE

• Civil Practice I and II
• Commercial Practice

CRIMINAL LEGAL PRACTICE

• Criminal Practice

PUBLIC LEGAL PRACTICE

• Administrative processes and legal-administrative practice
• Tax procedures

LABOR LEGAL PRACTICE

• Labor Legal Practice

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF A LAWYER

• Professional practice:
  • Legal and ethical statute of the legal profession
  • Argumentation techniques, writing, and knowledge management
  • Office organization and client relations

2. MODULE: SPECIALIZATIONS (ELECTIVE SUBJECTS)

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LEGAL PRACTICE

• Corporate law
• Tort law and liability
• Consumer law
• Family and succession law

PUBLIC LEGAL PRACTICE

• Corporate taxation I and II
• Public procurement

CRIMINAL LEGAL PRACTICE

• Economic criminal law
• Execution of sentences and penitentiary law

LABOR LEGAL PRACTICE

• Corporate labor law
• Special regime labor relations

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF A LAWYER

• Legal argumentation
• Legal English

3. EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS (MANDATORY)

• Internships for the practice of the legal profession

4. FINAL COURSE PROJECT (MANDATORY)

• Completion of the final course project

*The academic program is subject to changes.

Access to the Legal Profession Course – Face-to-face

1. LEGAL PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY MODULE (MANDATORY SUBJECTS)

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LEGAL PRACTICE

• Civil Practice I
• Civil Practice II
• Commercial Practice

CRIMINAL LEGAL PRACTICE

• Criminal Practice

PUBLIC LEGAL PRACTICE

• Administrative processes and legal-administrative practice
• Tax procedures

LABOR LEGAL PRACTICE

• Labor Legal Practice

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF A LAWYER

• Legal and ethical statute of the legal profession
• Argumentation techniques, writing, and knowledge management
• Office organization and client relations

2. SPECIALIZATION MODULE (ELECTIVE SUBJECTS)

PRIVATE LAW AREA

• Corporate law
• Introduction to business accounting
• Commercial contracting
• Insolvency law
• Competition law: free competition and unfair competition
• Tort law and liability
• Intellectual and industrial property law
• Consumer law
• Family and succession law
• Law of regulated economic activities
• Financial markets law

PUBLIC LAW AND TAXATION AREA

• Urban planning and real estate law
• Business taxation I
• Business taxation II

SOCIAL LAW AREA

• Corporate labor law

CRIMINAL AND PENITENTIARY LAW AREA

• Economic criminal law
• Criminal liability of minors
• Execution of sentences and penitentiary law

INTERNATIONAL LAW AREA

• International business law
• Jurisdictional protection in international courts

3. EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS (MANDATORY)

• Internships for the practice of the legal profession

4. FINAL COURSE PROJECT (MANDATORY)

• Completion of the final course project

*The academic program is subject to changes.

Master in Entertainment Law: Audiovisual, Music, Sports, and Show Industry

Module I. Introduction to the Legal Foundations Common to Entertainment Law: Audiovisual, Music, Sports, and Show Industry.

1. Intellectual Property: The work, the author, performing artists, producers, and editors. Athletes and sports entities. Moral and economic rights. Licenses and types of contracts.
2. Comparison of Anglo-Saxon law and continental European law: copyright vs. authorship rights.
3. Industrial Property: Distinctive signs, protection of artistic names, characters, and television formats, patents, trademarks, designs, know-how, technical and commercial secrets. Sports sponsorship.
4. Competition Law.
5. Advertising Law.
6. Introduction to “Contract Drafting”.

Module II. Public and Private Organizations and Institutions Related to Entertainment Law.

1. Study of national and international public and private institutions related to the entertainment law industries.
2. Guild organizations, trade unions, and Intellectual Property Rights Management Entities (CMOs) at national and international levels.
3. Academies of Film, Television, and Performing Arts.
4. The Spanish Association of Video Game and Entertainment Software Producers and Distributors.
5. The League, FIFA, and the Spanish Olympic Committee.

Module III. Law of the Audiovisual, Music, and Sports Industry (I): Legal Analysis of Pre-production, Production, and Post-production of Works, Other Types of Creative and Sports Content.

1. Pre-production: Intellectual property and other legislation applicable to elements forming audiovisual, musical, and sports content. Study of the registration and protection of formats, license management, and other legal aspects of pre-production.
2. Production: Technical and organizational aspects. Intellectual property, industrial law, labor and social security regulations, tax regime, and corporate and contractual law applicable to the audiovisual, music, and sports industries. Sports competition: business models and summary of contractual relationships. List of funding sources. Study of reciprocal guarantee societies, economic interest groupings (AIE), and other financing structures for audiovisual productions. Legal regime applicable to international co-productions and the filming of foreign productions in Spain.
3. Comprehensive management of the musical artist’s activity: 360 Representation Contracts. The role of representation agencies.
4. Post-production: Technical and organizational aspects. Intellectual property and other legislation applicable to editing and finalizing the work. Study of user-generated content and derivative works.
5. Contract violations and effective judicial protection. Analysis of typical conflicts and case law.

Module IV. Law of the Audiovisual, Music, and Sports Industry (II): Legal Analysis of Distribution, Export, Commercialization, and Secondary Use of Works and Other Creative and Sports Content. Market Study.

1. Exploitation of audiovisual and music works: Study of distribution contract types and general commercialization of works and content. Practices in the audiovisual and music sector.
2. Public domain and the use of open licenses in the audiovisual and music industries, Copyleft, and Creative Commons licenses.
3. Export and internationalization of content: Analysis of legislation applicable to the internationalization of audiovisual and music content, incentive regimes, public and private subsidies.
4. The audiovisual and music markets: Study of business models. Analysis of the functioning and regulatory framework of free-to-air and pay television markets, movie theaters, passenger transport, public venues, festivals, radio stations, radio-formula format, recorded music sales, and music in audiovisual productions.
5. Exploitation of sports competitions in the media: Audiovisual rights applicable to football and other sports.
6. The legal regime of indicators and systems for measuring commercial exploitation in audiovisual markets. Analysis of business models of data providers, audience measurements, and box office statistics. KANTAR MEDIA and COMSCORE.
7. Collective management of intellectual property rights.
8. Regulatory scope and the role of the National Commission of Markets and Competition.
9. Piracy in the exploitation of creative and sports content.
10. Judicial protection during the exploitation phase.

Module V. Law of the Audiovisual, Music, and Sports Industry (III): Legal Framework and Business Models of OTT Services. Analysis of New Horizons for the Production and Exploitation of Audiovisual Content in the Digital Environment. Other Forms of Exploitation.

1. OTT services and making audiovisual content available on internet digital platforms and social media (NETFLIX, HBO, SPOTIFY, YOUTUBE, and FACEBOOK). Study of business models and legal regime peculiarities in contracts and other sector practices.
2. Comparative analysis of the intellectual property regulatory framework in OTT services and social media. Cross-border management of licenses and remuneration rights in the digital environment.
3. Exploitation contracts for image rights in new business models in social media. Legal analysis of influencers and their various business models.
4. Performance Capture and Artificial Intelligence applied to audiovisual content. Legal analysis of performer replacement and “Deep fakes”.
5. New horizons for the exploitation of creative and sports content: The Metaverse and NFTs.
6. Other forms of exploitation: Merchandising based on creative and sports content. Gambling and betting.
7. Contract violation and judicial protection.

Module VI. Advertising Law.

1. Comparative analysis of the regulatory framework for advertising content. Cross-border management of licenses and time extension for commercial spot usage.
2. Business models in the advertising sector, audiovisual media, and the digital environment. Analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
3. The regulatory role in advertising. AUTOCONTROL.
4. Advertising and intellectual property rights.

Module VII. Video Game Law.

1. The legal regime of video games. Legal framework of the elements that make up a video game.
2. Pre-production, production, and post-production of video games. Contract models and real cases.
3. Legal regime for the distribution, export, and commercialization of video games. Business models and cross-border license management. Real cases and contract drafting.
4. Analysis of new business models related to video game exploitation: Public communication of game sessions on the internet (GAMEPLAYS) and E-Sports. The Gamer figure. The sports industry and video games, business model.
5. Video games and intellectual property. Analysis of authorship. The accrual of intellectual property rights in video game exploitation.
6. Comparative law and the regulatory horizon of video games.
7. Best legal practices in contract law within the video game industry.

Module VIII. Entertainment Law (I): Performing Arts, Concerts, and Sports Competitions as Public Spectacles: Regulation and Legal Analysis of the Planning, Hiring, Production, Promotion, and Execution or Exploitation of Musical and Theatrical Productions.

1. Regulation of performing arts, concerts, and other musical spectacles.
2. Sports competitions as public spectacles: National and international regulation.
3. Contracting and production or staging: Overview of contractual relationships. Analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
4. Promotion and ticketing: Industry practices. Real cases and contract drafting.
5. Execution or exploitation: Intellectual property and other applicable legislation to premieres, performances, and tour development of theatrical and musical productions. Civil liability and administrative regulations.
6. Collective management of intellectual property rights in performing arts, concerts, and sports spectacles.

Module IX. Entertainment Law (II): Legal Regime and Legal and Contractual Specificities of Different Types of Artistic and Sports Spectacles.

1. Music artist tours: In-depth study, analysis of real cases, and contract drafting.
2. Music festivals: In-depth study, analysis of real cases, and contract drafting.
3. Theatrical productions: In-depth study, analysis of real cases, and contract drafting.
4. Bullfighting: In-depth study, analysis of real cases, and contract drafting.
5. Football and other sports events: In-depth study, analysis of real cases, and contract drafting.
6. Circus and other live events.
7. Contract violation and judicial protection.