Master Class Overview - Transactional Entertainment Law

Getting ready!

Ciao cats.

I worked on the syllabus for my upcoming entertainment law master class series this weekend. We’re very excited about the class — as my former students all know, it is not a passive lecture series by any means. This Fall 2025 version is an immersive, interactive, and intense ten-week entertainment law boot camp, with class every Monday night and weekly drafting, reading, and outlining assignments, all of which will be reviewed and critiqued.

It is similar to the law school class I teach, but without a final exam, I was able to streamline the syllabus and then include more practical drafting into the system. It’s awesome!

We will launch registration in a few days; tuition is 1000 USD, the first class is September 15.

Who should take this entertainment law class?

My class is designed for attorneys, of course, but also law students, and film/TV producers or showrunners whose work involves reading or working with production agreements.

As I write this, I am not yet sure how big the class will be, but we have a few people pounding on the door before registration is open, which is cool.

That said, I am not taking more than 10 students per class, as it wouldn’t be possible to give enough individual attention to every student in every class. This is about creating another great class, to pay it forward, and teach good people how to succeed in transactional entertainment law. Ten is the perfect number of students, anything lower than that is great as well.

Packing a writing class with 20 students is a quick win for a school or instructor, I guess, but the quality of the class suffers greatly, no? A lecture series allows you to go big, lecturing to 500 or 50,000 people without affecting the quality of your presentation. But a writing class, where you have to teach each individual how to draft and answer their questions about a very complex topic?

A small class size is the key.

The syllabus is detailed, but here is the basic high-level overview of the Fall 2025 game plan.

FALL 2025
ENTERTAINMENT LAW MASTER CLASS SERIES

Class 1 - Contract Drafting System 7, Chain of Title, Copyright

Class 2 - Producer Agreements, Fixed Compensation and Credits I

Class 3 - Actor Agreements I, Contingent Compensation

Class 4 - Actor Agreements II (loan out), Publicity rights

Class 5 - Writer Step Agreement, Credits II

Class 6 - Literary Option Agreements

Class 7 - Director Agreements/Film Clearance

Class 8 - Music in Film and Television I

Class 9 - Music in Film and Television II

Class 10 - Social Media Influencer Deals

That’s it for now. Stay tuned for Scene 7 for more information.

If you have questions, drop me an email at LeeRudnicki7@gmail

Thank you!