Legal

There are many legal requirements and issues in relation to the media such as intellectual property lawyers and copyright therefore there are many positions and job oppurtunites within the media industry that crossover with the legal industry.


Media Lawyer
A lawyer that works in the media idustry focus on providing legal services to the entertainment industry. The principle areas of entertainment law overlap substantially with the well known and conventional field of intelectual property law's and other issues concerning copyright, slander, libel law and defimation. Also negotiation contracts and mediation are a big part of the media industry. Lawyers working in the entertainment industry can cover the following categories

• Film
• Television
• Publishing
• Multimedia

As the public interest has in celebrities has developed over the past few years media lawyers are more commonly known and are often involved in battles between celebrities and the courts over the 'personality rights' of a person. A lawyer can be a representative when the rights of an individual concerning their privacy and commercial use of his or her name has being wrongly accused or slander has being committed.



Intellectual Property Lawyer

An Intellectual Property Lawyer works for a client ensuring that their rights to rather the creation of a product regognizing that person exclusive rights or ensuring that they are granted certain exclusive rights to assests ranging from material objects to inventions or even words and phrases. They are professionals who are trained to licensed to practice intellectual law protecting rights and assests for others involved in anything legal that is connected to intellectual property.


Legal Councel

A legal councel gives adive to a client or company. In the entertainment industry a legal counsel gives advice agbout several matters including individual cases and company cases such as slander or if their personal rights have being breeched.  They are genrally the head lawyer at a law firm that specialises in the entertainment industry. A legal councel tends to have years of expericance that has allowed them to gain the knowledge and skills to give adive about legal cases and the best way to go about them. Within the media industry a legal councel also works to ensure that the company is opertaing within the law at all times therefore they must be aware of all the transactions the company is engaged in .