Arts Admin-Media & Film Stud. (AAMF)

An interdisciplinary exploration of the legal, ethical and practical issues that shape storytelling and creative expression across different types of media. Students examine how filmmakers, authors, artists, musicians, marketers and other creators protect their work, incorporate the work of others and navigate the rights and responsibilities involved in creating and sharing media. Through contemporary cases and other projects, students explore copyright and intellectual property, fair use, permissions/licensing, defamation, privacy, attribution, emerging technologies and other issues affecting fiction and nonfiction storytelling. Emphasis is placed on developing best practices and ethical approaches to creative decision-making at the intersection of creative storytelling, business, art, law and technology.