What Do Sports and Entertainment Attorneys Do?
Sports and entertainment attorneys deal with the broad legal arena of the sports and entertainment industries. Much of sports and entertainment area of law revolves around intellectual property including copyrights, patents and trademarks, as well as licensing, endorsements and the various agency legal issues. Sports, and entertainment leisure laws are largely regulated by private laws and have recently gained immense popularity. Sports and entertainment lawyers help their clients with issues within entertainment law including, but not limited to: the limitations of publicity, copyright infringement, future technology clauses in contracts and defamation issues. The controversial, but important, distinction between amateur and professional athletes sparks many heated litigations in sports law. Generally, an amateur athlete is one that is not monetarily compensated for his or her talents. Many college athletes are given scholarships, but they are still considered amateurs because there i
