Our media and entertainment practice is built on our clients' needs for intellectual property and business advice in the mass media and entertainment industries, including publishing, music, film, television, radio, and the Internet.
Our attorneys advise on and protect entertainment-related intellectual property, including in the acquisition, licensing, and sale of entertainment and media assets. Our clients range from large media companies and the estates of renowned public figures to authors and Pulitzer-prize winning composers.
We advise clients in these areas:
- Book and magazine publishing and the graphic arts
- Music publishing
- Music recording and distribution
- Online music
- Television and documentary film production and distribution
- Independent feature film production and distribution
- Online film festivals
- Live music venues
- Dance
- Direct response television advertising
- Electronic games
We handle matters in the music publishing, film and television distribution, and interactive website industries. Our services include:
- Negotiation of domestic and international television and film distribution agreements
- Negotiation of recording and music publishing agreements
- Negotiation of online and digital media rights agreements
- Negotiation of television production agreements, including reality television
- Book and magazine publishing agreements
- Right of publicity and celebrity endorsement licensing
- Advertising law, including and Federal Trade Commission compliance
- Film option agreements for novels and life story rights
- Operating agreements for film production
- Trademark counseling, registration, enforcement, and litigation
- Copyright counseling, registration, and litigation
- Obtaining court approval of entertainment industry agreements with minors
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