Being an attempt at conveying, instructing and supporting
the admirable practice at the Bar of all things entertaining
and the laws, rules, concepts and strategies appertaining thereto.
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Steven Paul Mark
Entertainment Lawyer
This entertainment law practice concerns itself with all media including motion pictures, all forms of television, broadband/wireless, home video, legitimate stage, publishing, music and other new media/technologies and licensing and merchandising, whether in research, planning, development, financing, production, distribution or exploitation. Areas of law and practice include the following:
Copyright, trademark and other intellectual property
Research and due diligence
Rights clearance for footage, music and other elements
Rights acquisition and media licensing
Employment contracts and employment law
Business strategy
Deal architecture
Contract negotiation, drafting, reviewing and administration
Collective bargaining issues and residual analysis
The practice represents all variety of clients including independent producers and production companies, distribution companies, writers and authors, on-air talent, stage producers, directors and choreographers, designers, personal managers, agents and others.
We are very pleased to announce that two of the films on which we served as production counsel will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012.
FOR ELLEN is the story of a struggling musician who takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter. Starring Paul Dano, the film was written and directed by So Yong Kim who';s not a stranger to Sundance competition and awards.
WEST OF MEMPHIS is a feature documentary covering the murders, trials and aftermath of three tennage boys wrongfully convicted of the savage murders of three little boys. Produed by Peter Jackson, Damien Echols and Lorri Davis, the film is directed by Oscar-nominee, Amy Berg.
