What Are Some Basics of Music Publishing Income? 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…
Nuts and Bolts of Literary Rights Option and Purchase Agreements Television programming is mostly predicated upon original teleplays/telescripts or literary/dramatic works licensed from third parties. Such licensing is often negotiated through an option/purchase agreement between…
What is PC 422? While watching TV shows or movies that depict crime, we are often shown a character that is threatening to do harm to another character. Grandiose threats are made, and most of…
Entertainment Law and Sports Law Production studios, teams, and famous individuals in the entertainment or sports industries require consultation and protection of their practices just as much as other businesses, if not more. In both…
What To Look For In An Artist Personal Manager’s Contract 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…
Motion Picture Financing Procuring and securing financial backing from investors constitutes the sine qua non of entertainment deals. In fact, lack or dearth of money is translated into death knell of the deal especially a…
Often, businesses have information they would not and should not share with others. Such information could take the form of ideas, methods, devices, formulas, compilation, among other things. Let us explore what could work and…
Film and TV production are rather largely dissimilar. Let us explore such esoteric variations in some detail. SOME BACKGROUND ON TV PRODUCTION Film production, arguably and relatively, embraces a larger number of independent producers compared…
What Are Some Salient Contracts Provisions for Televising Live Events? To live broadcast an event, producers or broadcasters must obtain permission from sponsors. The sponsors could be the ones owning or performing the event in…
