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Los Angeles Entertainment Attorney
Entertainment producers in traditional and new media are faced with a myriad of legal issues from copyright law, to labor law considerations, to local laws dealing with filming permits, and contracts with their cast and crew. Content distributors face equally complex issues ranging from conducting legal clearances to negotiation of royalty and profit participation terms.
The field of entertainment law involves a mixture of different transactional legal categories revolving around drafting and negotiating contracts and providing legal and business affairs counsel to entertainment producers, distributors and artists.
David N. Sharifi is highly experienced as an entertainment law attorney for Los Angeles producers and publishers, and represents many entertainment industry clients in production, publishing, advertising, music, podcasts, and other platforms. David has been recognized as a top entertainment attorney in Los Angeles representing new media clients and productions.
Experienced Los Angeles entertainment technology law attorney David N. Sharifi represents clients in all areas of the entertainment industry including film, television, music, stage, and publishing. The principal areas of Entertainment Law overlap with Intellectual Property Law, particularly trademarks, copyrights, contract law, and rights of publicity. Some of the legal issues in entertainment law include:
- Script clearance
- Product placement and sponsorship
- Defamation matters
- Contract and Deal Memos
- Joint venture agreements
- Statute of frauds
- First Amendment matters and fair use defense
- Film financing agreements
- Production agreements
- Music production agreements
- Talent agreements
- Option agreements financing agreements
- Profit participation & revenue share deal
- Product and digital merchandising contract
Core Services
Development / Production Agreements: Our business affairs experience enables us to structure complex arrangements required for producers to hire top talent. We negotiate rights agreements, including literary option and purchase agreements, life story agreements, and talent agreements for actors, writers, directors and producers.
Entertainment Finance: We consult independent production companies, financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds, distributors, and high net worth individuals throughout the United States in shaping and structuring debt and equity capital structures in entertainment financing.
Sales and Distribution Agreements: Our expertise in negotiating agreements between sales agents and producers / financiers counts, and agreements between producers and distributors informs our consultation and legal drafting related to the distribution of entertainment products and underlying rights.
Advertising and Promotion: We represent studios, agencies, producers and famous brands in product placement, commercial tie-in and publicity arrangements, including contests, sweepstakes, and web-based promotions.
Publishing, Licensing and Merchandising: We provide unmatched expertise when consulting clients in developing strategies to build or exploit brand value. We advise on trademark registation strategies and negotiate licensing and merchandising agreements between brands, sponsors, content producers and manufacturers.
To discuss your entertainment and production law needs contact us to schedule a confidential consultation.
“During the course of 4 years I have had the pleasure of working very closely with David for all of my business entertainment production needs. He is consistent, resourceful, easy to work with, and an overall very talented attorney with a proven track record of delivering excellent results.”
- Client since 2010
Entertainment Producer
CONTACT
L.A. TECH & MEDIA LAW FIRM
12121 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90025.
Office: 310-751-0181
Fax: 310-882-6518
Email: info@latml.com
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