Entertainment law, sometimes called media law, is a term for a mix of more traditional categories of law with a focus on providing legal services to the Entertainment Industry.  The principal areas of Entertainment Law overlap substantially with the well-known and conventional field of intellectual property law. 

But generally speaking the practice of entertainment law often involves questions of employment/labor law, bankruptcy law, securities, agency, intellectual property (copyright/trademark/right of publicity), insurance, immigration, and much of the work is transaction-based, i.e. drafting contracts, negotiating, mediating, and such.  Some situations may lead to arbitration or litigation.

Entertainment law is generally sub-divided into the following areas related to the types of activities that have their own specific trade unions, production techniques, rules, customs, case law, and negotiation strategies:  film, music, television and radio, theatre, multimedia, publishing, visual arts and design, and defamation (libel and slander), personality rights, and privacy rights issues also arise in entertainment law, as well as life rights.