PRODUCTION LEGAL SERVICES – FILM/TELEVISION/NEW MEDIA
B2L’s provides production legal services for creators of film, television and new media content. We provide, draft and negotiate the following:
Film, TV, and New Media Production Contracts:
- Rights acquisition agreements
- Chain of title agreements
- Writer agreements
- Production agreements
- Location agreements
- Day Player agreements
- Crew agreements
- Union agreements for union talent (SAG, DGA, WGA)
- Non-union talent agreements
- Above-the-line talent and crew agreements (director, producer, casting director, executive producers)
- Below-the-line agreements
- Actor agreements
- Other performer agreements
- Escrow agreements
- Certificate of engagements
- Inducement letters
- Music licensing agreements
- Music composer agreements
- Post-production agreements
- Product placement agreements
- Clearance agreements for products
We also provide the following production legal advice to our clients with respect to:
- Company formation and representation
- Chain of Title
- Clearance reports and analysis on screenplays
- Legal opinions related to clearance reports and chain of title
- Treatments and screenplay copyright registration
- Films, television and new media content copyright registration
- Union paperwork (becoming a signatory and union compliance)
- E&O insurance
- Profit participation
DISTRIBUTION LEGAL SERVICES – (FILM/TELEVISION/NEW MEDIA)
B2L’s transactional distribution legal services include drafting and negotiating:
- Agency agreements
- Management agreements
- Domestic distribution agreements
- Foreign distribution agreements
- Licensing agreements
