Since its founding in 2009, filmmakers and media production companies, creative individuals, and start-up/entrepreneurial ventures in media and entertainment have relied on the intelligent, flexible, and responsive legal services of Andrew Raider Wood (atty bio linked here) at Wood Media Law PLLC.

Production Counsel

Wood Media Law provides comprehensive production counsel as well as certain à la carte legal production services to producers across a wide range of media, from narrative and documentary film, through TV and multimedia projects for various distribution outlets.

These include:

•Supervising and executing all required legal aspects of film and video production from initial concept/idea, through financing and production, on to good distribution/sales.

•Comprehensive advice and counsel with respect to creative project financing, insurance, and distribution.

Effective Business Counsel

Wood Media Law serves as business counsel to media, interactive and entertainment companies providing comprehensive, reliable, cost-efficient services. This is true both with respect to legal issues around media creation and distribution as well as with respect to more traditional legal business issues (employment, immigration, complex transactions, real estate, etc.) where the firm works within a trusted network of focused attorneys and law-firms across a wide spectrum of practice areas.

BUSINESS ENTITIES, FORMATION & TRANSACTIONS

•Advice and execution with respect to business formation, structure, and governance for entertainment companies and individual creatives.

•Managing mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures within the entertainment industry.

•Establishing loan-out entities where appropriate.

Employment and Labor Law:

•Advice and counsel on employment agreements, guild/union compliance, and employment policies.

•Handling disputes related to employment and labor matters.

Compliance and Regulatory Matters:

•Advice and counsel on compliance with government regulations and entertainment industry practice, with respect to advertising, content distribution, and digital media.

•Ensuring adherence to anti-money laundering laws and other relevant legal standards.

Dispute Resolution/Litigation:

•Advice and counsel in disputes related to contracts, intellectual property, and other business matters.

•Managing mediation and arbitration; Assisting in litigation as needed.

Intellectual Property (IP)

Protecting your intellectual property

•Managing a successful pitch while keeping intellectual property secure.

•Drafting and enforcing Non-disclosure agreements where practical and appropriate.

•Advising on copyright and trademark issues.

•Assisting with registration of intellectual property rights.

•Enforcing intellectual property rights and handling infringement disputes.

Intellectual property transactions: Options, Sales, & Licensing

•Advising, structuring, and negotiating license agreements for a wide variety of intellectual property in any and all media.

•Advising, structuring, and negotiating Option/Purchase agreements for Screenplays and their various underlying intellectual property elements (books, articles, prior audiovisual works, toys/games, etc.).

Attorney/advisor to Individual Creative Professionals & Artists

Individual artists, writers, producers and other creative professionals may retain Wood Media Law to help with their employment on a media project, in the option/purchase or license of their work or intellectual property rights, or in many other situations specific to the entertainment industry.

•In negotiations with studios, record labels, production companies, and other entities.

•Ensuring fair compensation and favorable contract terms.

BLOG

For some years Andrew Raider Wood has blogged irregularly about work in entertainment law, topics of current interest in the industry, as well as on some more personal—tho not unrelated—topics at New York Entertainment Lawyer.

Hopefully it’s of use or interest.

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