ENTERTAINMENT
LAW
Many artists are reluctant to contact attorneys to plan for their legal and business needs. This often leads to costly errors resulting in their creativity and hard work ending up in the hands of others. Mathis, Regazzi & Associates works with individuals and businesses from all areas of the arts to protect their creativity and foster success in their artistic endeavors.
Areas of representation we offer include:
Theatre
- Counseling and representing companies, producers, playwrights, actors, directors and designers
- Structuring financing and production entities
- Production services, including cast and crew, facilities, and rights deals
- Contract negotiation and dispute resolution
- Rights Clearance
Film
- Counseling and representing producers, writers, actors, directors, and crafts-persons
- Production , finance and distribution agreements
- Structuring production and financing entities
- Investor financing arrangements
- E&O Insurance
- Option agreements and other matters relating to underlying rights.
- Life story rights agreements
- Rights clearance
- Title searches and interpretation
- Privacy, publicity and defamation issues
- Union and guild matters
Music
- Counseling and representing record labels, music publishers, producers, recording artists and songwriters
- Negotiating and drafting music licenses, recording and producing agreements, touring-related agreements