Music Law Research Guide

For information on researching U.S. case law generally, see Georgetown Law Library's Case Law Research Guide or the Case Law Research Tutorial.

See our News & Current Awareness section (this guide), for sources useful for keeping up-to-date with music law developments, including new case law.

Additional sources for finding court opinions dealing with music law include the following:

To find more books on music law cases, search our catalog, by subject using the advance search function.

For information on researching U.S. statutory law generally, see Georgetown Law Library's Statutes Research Guide or the Statutory Research Tutorial. Major statutes dealing with music law include the following:

Title 17 of the United States Code contains the text of current federal copyright law. The following is a selected list of important copyright statutes:

Title 15 of the U.S. Code contains the text of three major antitrust statutes:

Other statutes:

For information on researching U.S. regulations generally, see Georgetown Law Library's Administrative Law Research Guide or the Administrative Law Tutorial.

Select federal regulations relevant to the music industry include:

Includes videos covering topics "What are Statutes and Where to Find Them," "Anatomy of a Code," "Finding Statutes Online," "Finding Statutes Using Print," and "Updating and Currency."