Entertainment & Media

Representative Experience

  • Negotiate talent agreements for movie stars, up-and-coming actors and everyone in between.
  • Structure agreements for executive producer, producers, show runners and staff members for motion pictures and television.
  • Advise and represent clients in rights pertaining to literary, format, and all other forms of rights acquisitions and licenses connected to all media.
  • Negotiate employment agreements for entertainment industry executives, talent agents and managers.
  • Manage participation audits for celebrities, directors, producers, actors and investors.
  • Provide general representation and legal work for a full range of producers, from fledgling companies to major studios in TV and motion pictures.
  • Represent composers and music libraries in acquisitions, licenses and general legal concerns.
  • Negotiate and draft agreements for licensing, recording, distribution and merchandising for music performers, composers and labels.
  • Structure unique, sophisticated multiparty agreements for the creation, licensing, and administration of music to, and on behalf of, independent television production companies.
  • Represent video game developers, producers and talent.
  • Counsel on online digital components of celebrity television network deals.
  • Advise on online and digital components of multiplatform television production/exhibition agreements.
  • Manage domain name acquisition, protection, recovery and dispute resolution.
  • Represent clients in cybersquatting protection issues and claims.
  • Represent various authors of “how to” books, fiction and non-fiction novels and textbooks.
  • Negotiate novelization agreements based on motion pictures, television and other media properties.
  • Acquire rights for the development, creation and marketing of “coffee table” photo books.
  • Negotiate agreements for ghostwriting literary works on behalf of celebrities and others.
  • Develop, secure and negotiate agreements in connection with book proposals.
  • Comprehensive and strategic counsel on crisis management.
  • Provision of complete estate planning services.
  • Guidance on incorporations and business formations.

For more information as to the services we provide the Entertainment Industry, please visit our Entertainment Law page and/or contact David G. Stanley.