Are you an artist, a musician, an author, or a party who publishes music or other content? We have represented some of the most famous authors, talent, and entertainers in the world.
Our areas of entertainment law experience include:
- Title and rights clearance
- Screenplay option and purchase agreements
- Distribution issues
- Contract disputes and negotiations
- Talent agreements
- Right of publicity
- Motion picture production and distribution
- Life story rights
- Screen Actors’ Guild productions
- Writers’ Guild
- Talent and literary agent agreements
- Publishing deals
- Television production
- Joint Ventures
- Character licensing
Some of the specific things we’ve done for clients:
- Advised clients regarding producing television commercials in compliance with Screen Actors’ Guild requirements;
- Negotiated movie options deals, screenplay options and purchase agreements, protected screenplays, synopses, previews and treatments, and have advised new authors and musicians on agent deals;
- Advised models and advertising agencies regarding rights of publicity;
- Settled disputes between band members during dissolution;
- Worked with major record labels and the Recording Industry Association of America to enforce our clients’ rights;
- Unraveled ancient agreements entered into by musicians who negotiated bad deals under pre-1978 copyright law.
For more about our experience with entertainment law, read here.