Ken Basin’s practice focuses primarily on litigation and transactional work for entertainment clients.  He also specializes in intellectual property issues, including copyright and trademark issues specifically related to the entertainment industry.

• Served as lead production attorney on major studio film, drafting and negotiating all major cast, crew, location, lease, and production agreements
• Represented established and up-and-coming screenwriters in negotiation of writing and option agreements with motion picture studios and producers
• Negotiated acquisition of motion picture remake rights from major studio
• Negotiated agreement for short-film producers to create series of advertising shorts for advertising agency and its client
• Negotiated television hosting agreement for major international stage performer
• Negotiated agency agreement for a television producer client
• Reviewed and revised form production, acting, and directing services agreements on behalf of movie studio
• Represented major video game publisher in licensing negotiations with major studio for video game adaptation of motion picture

• Part of a two-person team that obtained an arbitration award of over $5 million in a dispute between a motion picture distributor and a film producer
• Part of a three-person team that obtained a favorable settlement and license termination for the aggrieved licensor in an international trademark licensing dispute
• Represents a major U.S. entertainment company and motion picture producer in numerous audits, profit participation matters, and other general litigation
• Part of a three-person team that obtained an arbitration award of nearly $6 million in a dispute between motion picture co-financiers
• Researched and drafted discovery motions in complex international litigation on behalf of foreign social networking website

• What all of Hollywood can learn from Warner Bros.' loss, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, ESQ., June 1, 2010
• "I Could Have Been a Fragrance Millionaire":  Toward a Federal Idea Protection Act, 56 JOURNAL OF THE COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OF THE U.S.A. 731 (2009) (co-authored with Tina Rad)
• The Bloody Case That Started From a Parody: American Intellectual Property Policy and the Pursuit of Democratic Ideals in Modern China, 16 UCLA ENTERTAINMENT LAW REVIEW 237 (2009) (co-authored with Robert S. Rogoyski)
• YouTube litigation: Google’s tough DMCA tests, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, ESQ., August 7, 2007 (co-authored with Richard Neff)
• Featured in, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Ken Basin, Harvard Law '08, Sure Does," ABOVE THE LAW, August 25, 2009

• Participated in organizing and preparing materials for 2010 UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium
• Panelist, Junior Associates and the Practice of Copyright, Trademark, and Entertainment Law, Harvard Law School, March 2009