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LAW10166 Entertainment Law

Focusing on entertainment law, this subject is designed for lawyers and non‐lawyers who work in the entertainment environment. The unit has an emphasis on music and film and the legal consequences for those who regularly give advice in the entertainment industry. Entertainment law has, in addition to common law and equitable principles, important statutory influences which form an integral part of the syllabus.

Dr Angela Adrian - Unit Assessor

Dr. Adrian started her career in business after acquiring a Masters degree in business from Schiller International University in London. After working for a number of years, she decided to focus on law. She received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University, New Orleans; subsequently, she qualified as an attorney in Louisiana. After practising for a few years, she specialised in Commercial Law and gained an LLM with distinction from the University of Aberdeen. Concurrently, she became a solicitor in England and Wales.

Dr. Adrian wrote her PhD thesis entitled "Personality and Property Rights in Virtual Worlds" which has been published as a monograph entitled "Law and Order In Virtual Worlds: Exploring Avatars, their Ownership and Rights". She will be publishing her first textbook on Intellectual Property next year.

Dr. Adrian is the Editor of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.

Currently, Dr. Adrian is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Southern Cross University where she teaches Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Property Law and Stock Market and Finance Law. Her research interests are intellectual property, virtual reality, entertainment law, commercial law, energy law, international trade and contract law.

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Updated: 02 March 2012