Entertainment
Members of our Arts & Entertainment Team apply their legal expertise to provide our clients with trademark and copyright preparation, prosecution, enforcement and associated counseling services in the numerous areas of intellectual property relating to artists’ and entertainers’ rights. Members of this Team encourage and help clients to obtain, exploit and enforce their related copyright and trademark rights by securing copyright and trademark protection, licensing negotiations and litigation, when necessary.
In addition, the Team provides:
- Enforcement of musical artists’ performance rights
- Enforcement of trademarks and copyrights through mediation and litigation
- Licensing, counseling and negotiations regarding the licensing and sales of artists’ right, including trademarks, copyrights and rights of publicity and privacy
- Litigation enforcing copyright and trademark rights
- Maintaining property rights portfolios through a network of affiliate counsel worldwide
- Opinions regarding the infringement of artists’ and entertainers’ rights
- Opinions regarding validity of rights claimed and asserted by others
- Trademark and copyright preparation and prosecution
Areas in which the Team has represented clients include:
- Fine art
- Infomercials
- Jewelry design
- Literary arts and publishing
- Martial arts
- Modelling contracts and releases
- Musical equipment and related accessories
- Performing arts
- Photography
- Recording studios
- Sound Recordings
- Synchronization licensing of copyrights