Los Angeles Entertainment Law Attorney
Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group
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Trident Center, Suite 300 11355 West Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90064 USA |
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(310) 473-3500
www.entertainmentiplaw.com
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Law Firm Overview
At the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group, our experience reflects legal skills that are essential to the accurate evaluation of the nature and value of your professional options. Our lawyers provide clients with a powerful combination of legal insight and business acumen targeted to the needs of professionals, investors, performers, entrepreneurs and corporations in the high tech, IP management, entertainment, Internet and new media industries.
For both our American and overseas clients, our attorneys emphasize international co-finance and co-production opportunities. Our services extend beyond the original project to protect revenue streams generated from repurposed content in future applications. We serve as a bridge between diverse business interests and cultures worldwide, supported by an indispensable network of focused lawyers, business contacts and technical consultants all over the world.
Practice Areas
Additional Practice Areas: Motion Picture Production Financing Law, Film Production Subsidy and Tax Break Lawyer, International Film Production, Content Rights, Sports Contracts and Marketing, Buying, Selling and Licensing IP, Entertainment Industry Intellectual Property, Brand Integration, Corporate and Partnership
Practice Areas Description
- Entertainment LawFor over 20 years, our entertainment lawyers have advised clients about the business, financial and creative aspects of the entertainment industry in Southern California and around the world. Contact the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group in Los Angeles to learn how you can benefit from our legal advice and entertainment business experience.
- Motion Picture Production Financing Law
At the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group our lawyers advise and counsel entertainment lenders, borrowers and public and private investors worldwide as well as other providers and users of capital in the entertainment industry. The advice and counsel our entertainment attorneys provide includes structuring, negotiating and documenting loan agreements for one-off projects, complex credit lines involving more than one project and motion picture slate financings involving multiple projects. Our entertainment lawyers also structure, negotiate and document negative pick-up and "gap" financing agreements, as well as more complex multi-distributor "split rights" financings and international co-financings. Our entertainment attorneys also structure, negotiate and document complicated joint ventures, private placements and equity fund financings for entertainment product.
- Film Production Subsidy and Tax Break Lawyer
Experienced producers in media of all types understand that the strategic use of government production subsidies, wherever and whenever available, can help reduce costs and protect margins. To inquire about how your company may take advantage of government-sponsored subsidies, tax breaks and other "soft money" production incentives to help lower the break-even point on your media project, contact the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group in Los Angeles.
- International Film Production
At the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group in Los Angeles, our clients benefit from an attorney's advice across the spectrum of legal and practical considerations that arise when motion picture and new media productions cross international boundaries. For dependable counsel on issues ranging from deal structuring, financing and government subsidies to licensing and content rights, contact our office in Los Angeles to discuss your foreign motion picture or new media project with an attorney experienced in entertainment and new media law.
- Content Rights
As the Internet and handheld wireless devices have matured into primary platforms for the distribution, re-purposing and commercial exploitation of entertainment and media content of all kinds, creators, performers, owners and producers of both new and existing material can find their rights and financial interests jeopardized whenever a new way to use old content is discovered.
- Representing Talent
At the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group in Los Angeles, our goal is to help performers, creative talent and professionals in all fields protect their interests in the business and financial aspects of their creative endeavors. For an attorney's advice about doing business in Hollywood and other entertainment centers in Southern California, North America and around the world, contact our office today.
- Sports Contracts and Marketing
Our lawyers provide sports industry clients advice about contracts, career and transactional ventures, particularly where their business needs intersect with corporate, intellectual property, entertainment, e-commerce and new media opportunities in Southern California, around the United States and anywhere in the world.
- Intellectual Property & Licensing
Innovation is one of the most important aspects of our culture. Each day, new and more innovative ideas and concepts are created, and those ideas and concepts are refined until they are commercially marketable. It is important to work with an experienced intellectual property attorney from the inception of your creative ideas and innovative concepts in order to enhance their future value in the commercial marketplace.
- Buying, Selling, Licensing and Protecting Intellectual Property Rights
As today's digital society continues to grow and evolve exponentially before our eyes, your intellectual property rights may well be your most valuable asset. Our firm will advise and assist you and your company in the protection of your IP rights, allowing for their fullest commercial exploitation. We can also assist with the practical application of intellectual property related to the Internet, intranets, e-mail and document or data retention policies. Our lawyers also offer counsel on such critical business concerns as unfair competition, counterfeiting, gray marketing and product diversion.
- Entertainment Industry Intellectual Property
Occupying the point of intersection between entertainment law and intellectual property rights in emerging technologies, the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group serves the needs of production companies, motion picture and CGI/3D studios, animators, graphic designers, composers and others engaged with the creative or business side of the entertainment and high tech industries. Contact our Los Angeles office today to learn how our experience with matters ranging from copyright registration to infringement defense can help you realize the profit potential of your work while protecting your property rights.
- Internet Law
We live in the emerging digital age of communications, and it seems as though everyday there is a new technological breakthrough that may have very serious business implications for creators and providers of entertainment product and content. The advertising and marketing industries are continually reevaluating the effectiveness of their consumer product advertising and marketing campaigns in light of the ever increasing numbers of technologically savvy consumers moving away from more traditional print publications and television, and turning to the Internet and other new media delivery systems.
- Brand Integration
With more than 20 years of experience at the confluence of the advertising, media and entertainment industries, the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group offers legal counsel to both advertisers and media producers about the best ways to structure, negotiate and implement the terms of brand integration agreements, product placements and other branded content arrangements in a wide variety of entertainment, educational and informational media.
- Business Formation
No matter how well you know your business or how strong your relationships are within it, you should form a business entity in order to minimize the risks associated with doing business in today's litigious business environment. For the advice of an attorney experienced in business entity selection, formation and registration, particularly for businesses with any intellectual property assets, contact the Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Internet & New Media Law Group in Los Angeles.
- Corporate and Partnership
Oftentimes the biggest challenges you face in doing business don't involve the other parties to a transaction. Instead, conflicts or misunderstandings that arise within your business entity or joint venture can threaten your financing, raise questions on the other side of the table about the stability of your business, or undermine the ability of your business to perform its contractual duties and obligations.
Attorneys
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Brian J. Murphy
Attorney Business Law, Commercial Law, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property |
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