Exploring Entertainment Law’s Boundaries: Applying a Transdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

This piece sets out the challenges faced by the entertainment industry and the parallel altered role of law. What amounts to entertainment and how it is created, produced, distributed and consumed is at the centre of the inquiry. The second part of the equation is to consider what the legal dimension to the subject is or could consist of and most importantly the disciplinary context.  This forms the framework for teaching and research. It argues that the nature of the industry is such that the analysis needs to move beyond the rigid and limited doctrinal perspective provided by a single discipline. Thus, the learning strategy needs to be brought into line with a movement away from law as the sole dimension. It tries to create a holistic view as to what the curriculum encompasses and how it can be delivered drawing upon the broad concept of transdisciplinarity.