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Date: February 5, 2024
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201-896-4100 info@sh-law.comWhether you’re a performer, investor, producer, or other entertainment industry professional, drafting proper entertainment contracts is key to reducing legal exposure, protecting your intellectual property, and avoiding misunderstandings.
The entertainment industry employs and involves a variety of contracts including, among others, music recording contracts, distribution agreements, management contracts, and performance agreements. In an industry that transacts heavily on intellectual property and artist rights, artists, producers, and others in entertainment must retain competent counsel to protect important rights and avoid costly disputes.
While each contract in entertainment differs in terms, conditions, and overall purpose, there are certain key aspects and common elements that artists and entertainers should be intimately familiar with to protect important rights.
Below are a few examples of contract provisions that often play a central role in entertainment contracts:
As noted, entertainment law concerns many important rights and the agreements are often complex, which is why teaming up with an experienced entertainment attorney is an important step towards protecting your rights as an artist, producer, filmmaker, or record label.
As noted, entertainment contracts involve important rights, so below are a few tips for those negotiating such agreements:
Entertainment agreements are complex and deal with a variety of complicated terms, provisions, and negotiations. As such, it is important to collaborate with an experienced entertainment attorney who will, among other things, protect your rights and make sure that the agreement you are signing is proper, fair, and accurately reflects the spirit of what you, as an entertainment profession, is looking to achieve. At Scarinci Hollenbeck, the attorneys of our Entertainment and Media Law Group are skilled legal strategists and industry insiders with decades of experience. Whether you are an emerging artist or industry veteran, we are ready to assist and help advance your career.
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