Entertainment law involves a diverse body of enterprises, ranging
from traditional areas such as film, television, and music to new
and constantly developing areas and mediums such as the Internet,
interactive software, and multimedia. While “Entertainment” litigation
is not one specialized field of law, it draws upon the law of intellectual
property with increasing attention attention and value to technology
and intellectual property rights .Entertainment law may involve
intellectual property issues involving copyright, trademark, publicity
rights, and patent rights. Entertainment disputes arise in a variety of settings and may involve complex,
multi-party, contractual and licensing issues, new media rights, income and profitability disputes, ownership or distribution rights, labor-management disputes, work-for-hire disputes, merchandising
disputes, artist/player contract issues and fee disputes, and claims
for defamation or libel.
We have long history of engagement in entertainment
litigation, creative and artist’s rights, and related litigation.
We have been engaged in entertainment based litigation in media,
motion picture, music, DVD, video, software, and related industries
for many years. We have served as lead counsel in domestic and international
copyright, distribution, royalty, license, credit and net profits
matters in the US and abroad. We are selective in the cases we accept, making an effort to work on a smaller volume of matters that present important issues and substantial claims.
We have been involved in major motion picture
disputes involving major Hollywood studios, leading international
film distribution companies, and leading media executives in North
America and Europe with proceedings throughout the United States
and Canada. We have also been involved in representing entities or individuals
before industry organization such as the Directors’ Guild, Screen
Actor’s Guild, and other entertainment and production trade organizations.
Entertainment clients: Our entertainment clients have been business entities involved
in production of major motion pictures, music, and television. We
have also represented individual producers, directors and artists.
Entertainment lawyers: We have handled disputes
and litigation in a wide range of areas, including:
- copyright infringement
- work for hire disputes
- trademark infringement
- right of publicity and privacy
- unfair competition
- anti-counterfeiting
- licensing and merchandising disputes
- defamation (slander/libel)
- trade libel
- domain name disputes and other Internet-related
matters
- New media
- software
- interactive games
- trade secrets
- misappropriation
- pay or play disputes
- motion picture underwriting
- motion picture distribution
- royalties
- net profit distributions
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