Abstract:

 In today's China, entertainment industry embraces an unprecedented opportune moment for development. The best era also ushers in a golden opportunity for the development of entertainment law. As the boom of the entertainment industry is inevitably attracting more and more people to realize their dreams as film stars, music icons or even game stars, more investors and businesses will get involved which will trigger more complicated social relations, thus following the huge need for entertainment law. As entertainment law is still new in China, many issues call for clarification such as:what is entertainment law?What is the nature of entertainment law?And whether are there some basic principles?

Key words: entertainment industry law, legal regulation, principles of law, entertainment law