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This course introduces undergraduate students to the business problems and legal issues facing executives in the sports and sports-related industries. The course focuses not only on the management of sports teams, leagues, associations, accrediting bodies, and players' unions, but also more importantly on the special problems faced by businesses engaged in activities collateral to sports, such as licensed apparel manufacturers, television broadcasters and sponsors of sporting events. The subject matter includes contracts, torts, (including product liability), intellectual property (especially copyrights and trademarks), telecommuncations regulation.
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