Entertainment Law

Creative endeavors are often exhilarating and intimidating at the same time. Based on your choice of entertainment media, you will likely face unique challenges in getting it in front of a receptive audience. Unfortunately, since there are so many moving parts...

It’s common in today’s market to have writers, editors, screenwriters and others in the entertainment industry work on multiple jobs around the United States and world. Many writers find that they are signed onto projects using series deal contracts, but they don’t...

Breaking into the entertainment industry isn’t an easy task. One thing that proves to be very valuable in this industry is having a talent manager or agent who can push for you to get the gigs or jobs that will help to propel you upwards. Knowing a few points as you...

The music industry has changed significantly over the last 20 years. A lot of this change has to do with distribution, with most music now distributed online. People are far less likely to buy physical records than they were in the past. But that’s not the only...

If you work in the tv and film industry, you may know that there are multiple intellectual property (IP) rights in a single work. If a producer uses an author’s work without their permission or without being allowed by the law to do so, the author can sue them....

Many artists put in a lot of hard work doing everything possible to get their name out there before they ultimately land a record deal. If that's your story too, congratulations for catching a record label's executive's eye so much that they decided to offer you a...

When you’re writing a song, you may start by settling on a base chord progression. This is the heart of the song. You may deviate from it a bit along the way, but it always comes back to that progression. The problem is that there are only so many progressions, and...

It can be challenging to come up with something truly unique when writing a song. Whether you need a catchy hook or a metaphor to really drive home the emotional content of the song, the chances are good that previous works of music you have enjoyed will influence...

As a music artist, you need to protect your work. While you may have a manager or agent to handle such things, it pays to have a basic understanding yourself. There are too many stories of artists getting ripped off by people they thought were looking out for them....

T.I. has done it. Ludacris has done. Janelle Monae has done it. Usher has done it, and Outkast has done it. With similar passions and talent along with drive, ambition and perseverance, all these recording artists with ties to Atlanta have succeeded. And along the...