Entertainment

  • Music
  • Film and TV
  • Internet
  • Multimedia

Our entertainment law practice focuses on the music, film, television, internet, new media, and live performance industries with a particular focus on legal issues implicated by the intersection of entertainment and technology. Our attorneys have been involved with the implementation of new media creation as it relates to uncharted and newly precedented legal issues.  We also provide copyright and trademark registration services including prosecution of trademark disputes at the administrative and court levels.

Music

  • Band Name Protection
  • Business Organizations
  • Partnership
  • Corporation
  • Limited Liability Company
  • Management Agreements
  • Agency Agreements
  • Live Performance Agreements
  • Merchandising & Sponsorship Agreements
  • Recording Agreements
  • Music Publishing Agreements
  • Publishing, Co-Publishing & Administration
  • Performing Rights Issues
  • Synchronization Licenses
  • Distribution Agreements
  • Producer Agreements
  • Copyright Protection
  • Music on the Internet

We represent a broad range of professionals in the music industry, including recording artists, producers, record and publishing companies, executives, managers, live event producers and promoters, theatre owners and operators, distribution companies, production companies, publishers and songwriters. We negotiate and draft contracts related to recording and publishing agreements along with producer, management, distribution, touring, merchandising, corporate sponsorship, licensing agreements. We consult with artists and record publishing companies regarding their entertainment and Internet strategies and the protection, licensing and sale of their intellectual property rights.

Film and TV

  • Film Financing
  • Selling/Securing Story and Publicity Rights
  • Distribution Agreements
  • Work for Hire Agreements
  • Guild Issues
  • Option Agreements
  • Rights Clearance & Acquisition
  • Union and Labor Law Compliance
  • Insurance Issues
  • Employment/Services Agreements
  • Digital Distribution/Streaming Media Issues
  • Trademark & Copyright Protection

We provide counsel to actors, writers, directors, producers, managers and production and distribution companies in the film, television, cable, and interactive media sectors. We negotiate and draft film financing documentation and writer, performer, director and producer agreements. We counsel and negotiate distribution agreements, licensing and product placement arrangements, and we provide intellectual property counsel and rights clearance services.

Internet & Multimedia

We assist individuals and small to large companies in their electronic media activities and provides transactional and litigation guidance through the statutory laws related to the Internet – including: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Wire Tap Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, WIPO domain name dispute resolution mechanism, First Amendment issues, obscenity laws, privacy issues, and publicity rights.

Our attorneys also advise in every step in the process of developing, protecting and monetizing electronic content, including the drafting and negotiation of: content and database creation and licensing agreements, software and website development agreements, web site hosting and linking agreements, advertising, promotion and joint venture agreements such as sponsorship, affinity marketing, fulfillment and endorsement agreements. We assist in the creation, licensing, sale and protection of content for multimedia and provide guidance through each facet of media implicated by the combination of music, text, graphics, illustrations, photographs, software and other elements, including the myriad of legal issues to avoid infringement upon the legal rights of others.