Entertainment Law

Trademark Licensing
Trademark Licensing
Trademark licensing is an important part of intellectual property law. With the right trademark attorney by your side, you can make sure that your product or service is instantly recognizable, as well as protect yourself from competitors who want to trade on your good name. For the best trademark attorney in Los Angeles, contact our Beverly Hills office today.
Copyrights
Copyrights
Copyright law today not only protects authors or publishers from the making of unauthorized copies of their work, but also encompasses other rights including (without limitation):Public performance, Public display,Digital audio transmission of sound recordings.
Pre-production / Production / Post-production
Pre-production / Production / Post-production
From legal perspective, making a motion picture is esoteric, convoluted and fraught with peril. The process of movie making encompasses numerous deals and consequent contracts. To properly and prudently effectuate such contracts parties involved have to contend with plethora of issues ranging from acquisition of rights, preproduction, financing and production to distribution. Let us in some depth delve into movie making process from the legal perspective.
Actor Agreements
Actor Agreements
Despite the fact Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) governs and regulates actor’s working conditions, travel and residuals and even minimum fee requirements, not all actors are SAG members and not all production companies are SAG signatories. In addition, principal photography might occur in foreign jurisdictions outside SAG purview and high-level actors often negotiate far beyond SAG requirements.
Composer Agreement
Composer Agreement
Exclusive Recording Agreement (“Agreement”) between an artist and a recording company encompasses some rather unique and other rather esoteric provisions applicable to only such agreements. Let us review, in some depth, duration, exclusivity, advances and royalty provisions of such agreements, among others.
Arranger Producer Agreements
Arranger Producer Agreements
Film Producers are unlike writers or directors. Film Producer title does not necessarily translate into producing the film. Film Producer title could be secured by mere association with the film’s star or writer or such title could be bestowed upon an individual because of financial contribution to the film. On the other hand, a film writer or director is necessarily an individual directing or writing the film.
Music Licensing Lawyers
Music Licensing Lawyers
With the advent of wholly newfound media and the ease to pirate songs, any meaningful tangible income from music publishing has drastically diminished. Consequently, it is incumbent upon music participants including but not limited to publishers, singers and songwriters to ascertain the fundamentals of music publishing income to some extent to monetize their hard earned commodity.
TV Agreements Lawyer
TV Agreements Lawyer
TV Development Contracts refer to TV Networks or other sources of funding election of Independent Producers to DEVELOP a costly or risky TV program for a focus group before committing their resources even to a pilot. Such development by independent producers transcends writing a treatment to computing budgets, selection of cast and locations and even testing the program before a focus group.
Misappropriation of Name
Misappropriation of Name
A plaintiff whose name or likeness has been misappropriated for profit may have a cause of action for misappropriation or violation of right of publicity. Statute and Common Law govern Right of Publicity or Misappropriation of Name or Likeness in California.
Trade Secrets
Trade Secrets
Trade Secret is often a nebulous term encompassing disparate facts and analyses to ascertain its existence and enforceability. For instance, Plaintiff’s belief that some particular information is a trade secret does not necessarily render such information trade secret, per se. The Plaintiff’s cogent belief could be a factor, but a not a dispositive fact.
Personal Manager Agreement
Personal Manager Agreement
Artists might elect to secure professional services of a personal manager (i.e. talent manager) to further organize their professional career and hopefully open new vistas of opportunities to themselves, to the extent practicable. Personal Managers are different from business managers.
Composer Agreement
Composer Agreement
Exclusive Recording Agreement (“Agreement”) between an artist and a recording company encompasses some rather unique and other rather esoteric provisions applicable to only such agreements.
Music Publishing
Music Publishing
Music publishing is different from sales of recordings, even though these two are closely related. In this article we explore music-publishing system through rudimentary analysis of how music publishing works and how publishing and songwriting income is split.